2016 Archives

This week's travel startup funding, all in one place.

As content marketing has established itself as an important tool in the travel industry, brands are investing more time and money in creating articles, video and interactive content across all channels, in order to better reach customers.

It will be interesting to watch pro-airline interest groups roll out their rationale against reforming the onerous fees charged by air carriers for routine services. Meanwhile, consumers will flock to the cheapest tickets possible.

The United States of No Vacation, Vacation Deprivation, Overwhelmed Americans, Work Martyrs — it's a problem by whatever name you use to describe it.

The other shoe has finally dropped and American and United will soon deprive the most-budget-conscious travelers of upgrades and other perks.

Amadeus has taken a more diverse marketing approach than the other travel technology giants, experimenting on different social media channels that are usually used for consumer marketing.

It only makes sense that extended stay properties with full kitchens would catch on to this growing food trend. The challenge is getting it from the cities where it flourishes to the exurbs where extended stay properties are more popular.

American Airlines Group CEO sounds as though he has turned into a labor activist. OK, not really, but he knows you can't have a successful company unless its corporate culture is healthy and its employees have a real stake in its well-being.

Robots in hotels aren't a new phenomenon, but this is the first one to be powered by IBM's Watson.

The ongoing digitization of global commerce is pushing innovative meeting and events to evolve with a cloud-first, digital platform mindset.