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Airbnb is either quietly building out host services for launch or keeping tabs of the growing crop of startups, which are ripe for acquisition once their product is stabilized and customer base large.

Newark's Terminal C is on track to help raise NYC area airports from the ashes and make passengers want to arrive early to these airports out of desire rather than obligation. Terminals A and B? Still wastelands.

Reid has the freedom to be provocative and the experience to be right about what he says.

We love the bold design thinking of the Air Lair 'This might just fly!' concept. But it could take a while for airlines to get over outdated 'class' thinking. Until then, it won't fly.

Bourdain's enthusiasm for a destination defines the tone of an episode, and this is one in which clearly all involved were more than happy to be there.

In addition to creative and well-designed infrastructure, these spaces also offer access to a destination's local education and leadership community -- additional draw for meeting planners and hosts.

Finding a winning marketing formula is every brand's goal; however, most are too slow to iterate in hopes of finding out what it is.

Practical beats romantic every time. The Orient Express, after all, was only tantalizing when Agatha Christie committed murder on it. If Poirot had free Wi-Fi, it would have gone much better for all involved.

Despite its size, Southwest is more capable of delivering a consistent brand and user experience -- mainly for good, but sometimes for bad -- than any other major airline in the U.S.

Even though hotel responses don't seem to do much by way of making reviewers happier, this should be a wake-up call for hotels to devote equal attention to both TripAdvisor and Expedia, especially since Expedia is directly connected to bookings more so than TripAdvisor.

The convention of the future is a co-created hybrid mechanism of live and virtual engagement, fluidly connecting more people through more channels over longer periods of time to leverage the collective knowledge of the community.

Ambrose isn't the biggest travel investor by far but he knows where the money is headed and where it wants to go.