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Get ready to pay high lodging taxes in New England, and possibly high taxes in other states that leave the decision to tax hotel room rentals up to municipalities or counties.

Moving towards managing properties rather than owning them is a trend other hotels have followed in recent years, but the challenge for Barcelo will be to how to make its brand shine through elsewhere while it remains behind the scenes at properties it manages.

The local and experiential trend in travel -- you know, the kind of trips that millennials are said to be in love with -- has gotten to the point that MasterCard and others are curating and offering these escapes for their customers. It is a natural fit as travelers knock off cities on their bucket lists, using their credit and debit cards.

We're happy to see Minnesota include families in an influencer campaign. Now we'd like to see other destinations get a little more racial and other diversity in their social media campaign.

It's clear that organizations such as the Family Travel Association are needed to promote the rising family travel market. But the association needs to do it the right way by aggregating content showing the reality of family travel, and also emphasizing to publications that families matter.

Hotels, tourism bureaus, meeting planners and delegates are having challenges keeping up with advances in event technology due to so many new platforms and providers arriving on the scene.

Student travelers represent a key demographic for travel-brand growth, but only if brands commit to understanding their evolving wants and needs. In this report, we define the student traveler, frame…

Hotel brands are becoming ambassadors of culture and influence from the East are inspiring fans in its region and worldwide.

The student traveler is setting trends, prompting progressive airfare packages, fresh insights into how alternative accommodations can be designed, and they are seeking innovation on the part of the verticals that await them in-destination. Understand the changing State of Student Travel, download the report for free!

These hotel brands purport that they do not block guests' or meeting attendees' personal Wi-Fi networks, but many do require that guests are a part of their loyalty program in order to exchange email addresses for free service.

As the appropriately green-tied and iconically white-moustached Dutch gentleman says on the video: “It’s absolute progress.” For Tesla, at least.