2015 › July

Tours and activities startups are having a renaissance of sorts and Zozi is the latest proof of that.

It's interesting to watch the typically harmonious U.S. tourism industry break out into conflict on issues like this.

These are the newest travel startups from Angel List vying for travelers’ interest and investors’ attention.

Many U.S. destinations have teams in places like China and Brazil working to attract those visitors so why can't they have an LGBT marketing staff member?

JetBlue taketh (new fees for a first-checked bag) and JetBlue giveth (a rooftop space open to TrueBlue members and just regular folks) at T5 in JFK. The timing of the announcement one day a part wasn't an accident. That's marketing.

Orbital space is just as complicated as airspace. There are a lot of a lot expensive satellites overhead, owned by governments and corporations, launched for their own intended uses. Even so, all of those people fly, so setting a little room aside to keep aviation safe seems like a good idea.

When will the majority of travel CEOs smarten up and use social media to praise their employees and appreciate their customers? It's OK to be human.

With the reams of documents submitted so far, and more surely to follow, the ongoing Open Skies debate is a big win for accountants, lawyers, and typists.

Airbnb, with its roughly $24.5 billion valuation, would likely be too big for most of the online travel agencies to acquire but if they are forced to enter the sharing economy in a bigger way several years from now they always have the resources to buy their way in.

With consumers' short attention span, JetBlue's new fare options and checked bag policy may not be such a big deal, especially when coupled with some lower fares and lower change fees.