2014 Archives

The U.S. tourism industry is laser focused on tourists from a handful of countries, but it will need to adapt its marketing, strategy, and product offerings for tourists from a broader set of countries in order to continue its record visitor growth.

As online travel agencies expand their grip into vacation and business travel destinations, their large mobile user base gives them an advantage, as does the fact that as a rule they have much greater technology resources than do hotels.

With other Southeast Asian metropolises realizing the value of cultural arts to help attract new legions of global travelers, Hong Kong zoomed to the front of the line with the Art Basel partnership.

While it is good to see the highest growth markets from the emerging countries, the largest markets by volume, the traditional source markets for visitors to U.S., is not rising fast enough. Whether Brand USA has a future or not, the future marketing of America has to balance both.

We can read that snowfall will change and waters may rise, but there's no way to tell how much the environmental changes will alter people's disposable income or ability to travel.

The actual or prospective IPOs of Hilton Worldwide, Extended Stay America and La Quinta notwithstanding, Blackstone is adding pieces to the empire.

Ever-changing equipment poses constant challenges for both travelers and an often undertrained staff at both airports and onboard planes.

Travel consumers have voiced their demand for hotel brands to inject more compelling travel content into their websites. It seems Peninsula Hotels was listening.

Ireland is attempting to replicate New Zealand's tourism success by branding itself as the real-life version of a mythical destination, and using the HBO logo adds credibility to the tourism board's campaign.

Expedia and TripAdvisor have subsidiaries in China, Priceline has gone the partnership route with Ctrip, and now Orbitz Worldwide wants to get in on the action in a more meaningful way through its HotelClub subsidiary. HotelClub will have to do some heavy lifting in China, which is a coupling, discounting and highly competitive market.