2014 › October

Some of these changes are more obvious, but bringing PR into paid advertising is an interesting insight that other destinations likely see happening too.

Making the floor beautiful and more functional for way-finding is a great application of Universal Design principles by Edmonton International. We need more of this thinking in the design of our expanding airport cities. The future of travel is inclusive.

It's understandable that companies want employees to keep business as the focus of a business trip, but if these trips make employees more worldly, help them relax and incorporate family time, employees will likely be more productive in the office and companies can't keep ignoring discussing their policies.

Online travel companies are hungry for mobile talent as the Skyscanner's Distinction acquisition highlights. Look for Skyscanner to expand direct bookings in its apps and on the Web, as competitors are doing.

U.S. travelers' growing interest in Central America is great news for the region whose destinations should now focus on differentiating and marketing their respective products as well as improving local transportation to ensure benefits are spread throughout each country.

In this transaction, Pegasus Solutions unloads a struggling reservations business to a private equity firm, and a smaller Pegasus Solutions, still facing lots of issues, lives to fight another day.

Business and First class, for the most part, has become a matter for marketing.

Technology is at its best when it disappears seamlessly into the guest experience. Not all of Starwood's innovations will catch on with customers, but its efforts ensure that it will offer guests those tools and services that do.

Building a new media brand in any sector is difficult, but expensive experiential writing about travel, history, art, and science is even harder to churn into a viable business. Atlas Obscura's intentions are pure, but it will take viral connection with a younger generation to guarantee its longevity.