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Are selfies to online travel agencies as pro photographers are to travel agents? The gap between DIY and special occasion creates business opportunities of all kinds.

Will United's CEO be able to take advantage of the goodwill pointing in his direction?

The new Fulcrum report gives tourism bureaus a better idea of the business challenges facing planners, and how they can help planners deliver better business performance without giving them a free handout.

We'd be interested in seeing where the remaining travel agents are concentrated and which specialties may be growing while others continue their decline.

We're eager to see how well transatlantic low-cost flying holds up over time.

More Chinese travelers than ever before are traveling to the U.S. and Alitrip is looking to provide custom, mobile-booked itineraries through its relationship with North American hotels, airlines and tour operators. It helps that its parent company is the preeminent Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, giving them near-unlimited resources to compete in a crowded Chinese travel market.

Growth — albeit modest — is better than negative territory when it comes to business travel. But it's hard to get too excited about "stable and steady" progress.

The value of this meetings industry trends list over others is that it profiles the major macro level trends, versus all of the ancillary micro trends which stem from them.

The price of loyalty really comes with a price now.

In airports and hotel lobbies, how many times have you heard throngs of travelers lamenting: "This app on my phone is wonderful, but if only it had access to real, human travel agents within it?" A new wave of travel startups is conjuring this image. Is it reality-based or wishful thinking? We'll see.