Dennis Schaal

If you are sick of hearing about hotels, hotels, hotels, then eDreams Odigeo is refreshing in its contrarian thinking and business assumptions. Can it build a high-growth business out of it all? That is very much an open question.

It's seemingly cold, crass and cruel to confront these issues, but corporations, large and small, need to have policies outlining how many employees can fly together in case a nightmare scenario takes place.

Lyft's competition with Uber is definitely great for the category, and soon they both will have a few hundred million dollars at their disposal for market expansion.

It seems like Yahoo could do so much more with it given the fact that Yahoo puts almost nothing into marketing the site and yet it is one of the larger sites in the global travel industry.

VacationRoost with LeisureLink could be a distribution alternative for vacation rental owners -- if the combined company has the resources to get the word out, and the volumes to prove it.

It is almost impossible to imagine that TripAdvisor wouldn't find an online travel agency partner for a Book TripAdvisor option within its mobile apps, but lots of the usual suspects are wary about TripAdvisor getting closer to the transaction part of the travel cycle, and getting even more powerful in the process.

TravelClick has a huge customer base in the hotel industry, but needs to reinvent itself. That's going to take a lot of investment, but it's unclear if there is a buyer out there who wants to take on that burden and risk.

When launching a new country site, companies have to consider the signals they are sending at the local level versus resource allocation.

Airlines have long-neglected cross-sell opportunities, but in recent years they've contracted with third-parties to move things along. Boxever's funding and Tigerair deal can be seen in this context.

At a time when U.S. airlines are talking about new bag-tracking technologies and other improvements, they collectively let an uptick in checked bags ruin several years of strides in their mishandled bags' numbers.