Dennis Schaal

Watching Netflix on an iPad in the hotel guest room is an increasingly popular option, but Hilton Worldwide believes the hotel TV isn't going anywhere.

While this seems like an opportunistic buy with Wotif's financial troubles, for Expedia this ties into two priorities: Expanding in Asia-Pacific and growing its global hotel business in competition with the Priceline Group's Booking.com and Agoda.

When it comes to performance-tracking of their mobile initiatives, more than one third of airlines surveyed by SITA indicated they don't track them. Their priorities obviously are elsewhere, but this is at airlines' own peril.

There is nothing fine about Booking.com's Fine Dining search. Booking.com should stick a fork in it, and start over.

Data roaming charges are the scourge of global travel. Being able to access city maps offline isn't the end-all and be-all, but it's better than nothing.

Major car rental companies have implemented rate hikes over the last year. That may be a contributing factor in leisure travelers growing unease with their heretofore favorite big brands.

The summer tourism season along the East Coast of the U.S. could get off to a rocky start over the July 4th weekend with a tropical storm threatening to turn into a hurricane.

Delta found that business travel to Latin America took a vacation in June in deference to more important matters, the World Cup.

When Expedia gets around to talking about acquiring Travelocity outright, the relationship between Travelocity parent Sabre and Expedia is already so close they will have no problem getting their phone calls answered. Sabre is counting on such a sale, telling investors that it is guaranteed to increase shareholder value.

Southwest is flying to destinations in the Bahamas, Jamaica, Aruba and Mexico where there is plenty of competition, but the carrier believes that it has plenty of room to grow in these new international destinations and it will undoubtedly shake things up for its rivals.