2015 Archives

Any ideas to improve airlines’ understanding of how their passengers feel in-flight couldn’t come soon enough.

The City of Portland, Oregon recently proposed similar amendments to its short-term rental law but was slow to impose any penalties. Since Airbnb is headquartered in San Francisco you can only imagine how much bloodier this battle has become.

This expansion is essential to keep Frankfurt Airport among the leading hubs in Europe and the world.

Not all Airbnb hosts are as welcoming as Airbnb depicts and not all Ibis are as luxurious as it portrays, but advertising is more about shifting consumers' perceptions of a product than their practical expectations.

HomeAway is facing a relatively tough time in Europe where its subscription listing business is off and foreign exchange woes are impacting performance.

Consumers are faced with more options during travel booking than ever before, a near overwhelming amount that can be cause to abandon purchases. Smart travel marketers are finding that reducing choices actually increases conversions.

It's not the Concorde. There's far more room inside, for a start, and plenty of time to enjoy all that pampering.

It isn't often that you see the U.S. Travel Association calling out anyone, let alone the largest airlines in the U.S., but the Gulf carriers' subsidy issue has exposed deep differences about competition and the global travel industry.

Ola is likely facing the same growing pains that Uber experienced in India, but it looks like the former is making its mark.

Old metasearch sites, like old soldiers, don't die. They just fade away. That may be the case for Google Hotel Finder as Google's hotel listings right on the first search results page funnel users in a streamlined way to Google's hotel ads.