2015 Archives

It serves Google more to provide the services and alerts that travelers and want need through its own platform than ignore their existence and have users split time between those apps and its own.

These are the tourism trends we were talking about this week.

These are the digital travel trends we were talking about this week.

Marriott International, Hilton Worldwide and the U.S. hotel industry as a whole got a black eye from pursuing this FCC petition seeking clarification on Wi-Fi jamming. They bowed to intense pressure from the FCC and in some cases the hotels' loyal guests.

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

Airfares haven't changed dramatically in the past few years. However, a significant increase in add-on charges has made it feel that way to consumers.

Bumrungrad hospital in Thailand is perhaps the shining star of affordable, foreign hospitals for medical tourists seeking treatment although most foreign hospitals aren't at the same caliber yet and may not always be a cheaper option than U.S. hospitals.

If Samsung can make something like this affordable for airlines to feature as the ultimate escape from the crowded Economy cabin, we're sold.

Hyatt Hotels looked at the lifestyle hotel sector and decided to go with an efficient and energetic brand story, because a lot of travelers are just too busy to get worked up over "design hotels" anymore.