Dan Peltier

Wellness tourism has made huge leaps in the past few years, with more tourists wanting to maintain healthy habits as they travel. But it still has a long way to go before it becomes ubiquitous in parts of Africa and the Middle East, as well as outpacing traditional tourism.

People rarely like airline food in the air, so it's hard to see how serving it to them on the ground could ever catch on. It does, though, speak to how airline food service companies are looking for new business beyond the skies.

As Latin American countries grow as destinations, it is in the interests of properties and review sites like TripAdvisor to generate more reviews from Latin America travelers to really round out the perspective.

The survey shows U.S. travelers are likely more excited during the booking process than during the actual trip, and hotels, for example, can learn from this by devoting more attention to generating excitement around booking while also helping increase excitement during a trip.

BeMate is a product of what some call "the Airbnb effect." Based on the success of Airbnb and other sharing economy sites, Room Mate Hotels sees it's chance to go where no hotels have gone before.

The 2014 reauthorization bill for Amtrak wouldn't speed up the prospect of high speed rail service along the northeast corridor, but it would at least keep plans on track to make much-needed repairs before trains can start getting faster.

As Chinese airlines look to expand and China's tourism continues to boom, this isn't great news for the country's airlines.

Proponents of the bill are counting on a Senate vote that might not happen, at least until after the November elections. With Senator Menendez's strong opposition to the bill and Senator Rockefeller retiring and under no pressure to move it forward, the bill's future is anything but certain.