Dan Peltier

Museum Hack is a role model for businesses that want to turn passion into profit, but it's Gray's enthusiasm and talent for storytelling that turns strangers into evangelists.

Get ready to pay high lodging taxes in New England, and possibly high taxes in other states that leave the decision to tax hotel room rentals up to municipalities or counties.

Moving towards managing properties rather than owning them is a trend other hotels have followed in recent years, but the challenge for Barcelo will be to how to make its brand shine through elsewhere while it remains behind the scenes at properties it manages.

It's clear that organizations such as the Family Travel Association are needed to promote the rising family travel market. But the association needs to do it the right way by aggregating content showing the reality of family travel, and also emphasizing to publications that families matter.