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Being the first to do something is never easy, but these travel professionals show how being first helped them stand out and gain respect.

As the TripAdvisor Business Listings subscription business matures four years after launch, the company is getting more sophisticated and adopting a degree of performance-based pricing -- or at least pricing based on anticipated performance -- to its fee structure. Is it fair? It likely depends on how good that new algorithm is.

This has ballooned beyond a dispute over the Open Skies application of a relatively small carrier (Norwegian Air International) to an existential debate of the free market future for the global aviation industry. Decisions made now will have lasting repercussions.

The state of cruise Wi-Fi looks very promising for this year and beyond, but the same can't be said for prices passengers will pay to stay connected.

In order for hotels to drive direct bookings, it's better to keep customers engaged and on their websites by providing an unbiased, less controlled take on the property than have them leave and seek out other review and booking channels.

Route location plays a huge part in Alaska's and Hawaiian's continued success. A better indicator of aviation progress is overall industry on-time pefromance, record, which continues to decline.

Are subscription airline services such as those from Surf Air, Rise and the soon-to-be-launched Beacon ripe for consolidation given the close ties among co-founders? OK, we're kidding. First we'll have to see if there is even a market for the membership model in aviation.

A smart look at the factors, including the rush toward direct bookings, that are shaping the entire metasearch sector in 2015.

We sure are glad the the FCC gave the go-ahead for passengers to turn on their phones in-flight. No more having to fumble for credit cards with Apple Pay on JetBlue flights. Google Wallet, though, appears to be missing in action.

Marriott is following through on the common ideologies of content marketing more than any other brand, which will make its initiatives even more fascinating to watch in a few years when we can tell whether they actually do or don't work.

When Huston took over as CEO of the Priceline Group 13 months ago, a financial analyst told us that Huston would play it safe and not make any bold moves in his first year at the helm because he needed to assure Wall Street about his leadership. Boy, was that analyst wrong.

Loews Hotels sees an opening at the high end of the busy lifestyle hotel segment, especially for more mainstream consumers like those loyal to the Loews experience.