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After seeing the product first hand, we can say that in this case pictures paint insufficient words. We could write many more, but to keep it simple: The perks and extras are bound to encourage plenty of repeat customers.

How soon will it be before U.S. regulators take up the issue of the pricing control wielded by the four largest U.S. airlines? On the other hand, the U.S. Department of Justice helped to create this mess.

Airbnb has spawned an ecosystem of startups offering ancillary services, but Handy has a leg up on its competition with a brand and customer base already built up around the country.

Airlines' most creative content marketing efforts are coming through in their in-flight safety videos, which are as popular online as their on actual planes. They now need to take this creativity to other aspects of their marketing strategy.

Tourism Australia is leading the industry in marketing practices, which means it must continually innovate on its most successful campaigns and test new ones to find what sticks and gets travelers to commit to the often long-distance journey down under.

Matching future travel dates with options that are price or value conscious is key to personalizing travelers' mobile experience.

Frequent travelers are no longer satisfied with the traditional hotel room, but many are also not yet willing to take a risk on peer-to-peer options making standardized accommodations that offer a mix of open space and service an increasingly popular option.

The way United's Rainey talks about unbundling and rebundling products for maximum revenue it seems like an exercise in razzmatazz rather than giving customers something of enhanced value.

Time is the biggest factor working against Americans and their vacations. They want high quality experiences for the time they actually do take, hence why they're not afraid to splurge on their leisure trips.

Travel startups will never emerge from the startup phase if they can't be creative and figure out a way to scale their businesses and get people to use their websites and apps more than a couple of times per year. Sometimes it means community-building or expanding beyond "travel" into local discovery.

Higher gas prices don't seem to be worrying travelers and it looks like summer travel will do well on its important first seasonal test as hotel stays this Memorial Day shape up to be more expensive than last year.

Soon the question won't be whether your hotel has a connected app -- it'll be how good your hotel's app is.