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16 hotels in five years is playing it rather safe.

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

Coming up with fresh ideas in aviation takes guts. Sometimes your guts are cut out, and handed back to you on a nicely compartmentalized in-flight meal tray. But there's no stopping some people.

Since Meetings Mean Business launched in January 2014 with industry-wide representation (except for the airlines), the coalition has become a valuable resource for industry research. The next phase includes getting non-industry CEOs to advocate for the value of meetings, finally ending the millennial conversation, and partnering with new tech and sharing companies.

This is an extract from Future Cities, where we explore how major destinations are using smart design to shape the city of the future. In this installment, we look at how Taipei is leveraging city planning, smart technology and the Internet of Things to design the future of urban living.

After some very bad years following the 2008 financial collapse hotels feel safe to spend again.

The Avis Budget CFO said its core business and Zipcar haven't felt a major impact from ride-hailing apps such as Uber and Lyft. When the punch eventually comes it could be Zipcar that takes the body blow.

We like the budget design approach of GLō, even if we don't understand the spelling or capitalization. Someone should tell Best Western that even millennials like simplicity.

We're still a long way from political leaders really understanding what's happening at brands like Uber and Airbnb.

Carnival Corp. is wise to leverage its global scale and overhaul its global connectivity infrastructure across all brands. Internet access lets cruisers have a better time onboard.