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A half dozen travel companies, including Southwest, Delta, United Continental, Wynn Resorts, Marriott and the Priceline Group have seen fairly massive -- more than 50% gains -- in their market caps compared with this time last year, as the big keep getting bigger. Hotels dominate the world's 15 largest publicly traded travel companies.

It's easy to forget how new the aviation industry is and how drastically it's changing the way people live, work and experience their time on earth.

Although more Americans had the resources and confidence to travel abroad in 2013, those who did were more cautious about their spending, resulting in lower budgets and slightly fewer days overseas.

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Cheap hotels that offer fast Wi-Fi can make up for some of their shortcomings with digital acumen.

Social customer service has evolved from trend to hospitality standard pushing brands to improve their communication with guests and define their service level. The people tasked with carrying out that job must be quick, creative and most importantly patient.

TripAdvisor's loosening of its purse strings in 2014 reflects an intense merger and acquisition environment fomented by rivals, including the Priceline Group and Expedia Inc., which have been spending even more than TripAdvisor on acquisitions so far this year.

Concur has done an excellent job in recent years thinking about what the business traveler needs to do their job better rather than focusing on putting the travel manager first. This is simply the next logical step.

There is more technical innovation occurring in the hospitality sector than in any other part of the travel industry, and that oftens gives hotels the tools to turn guest data into revenue.

Is the knee-jerk TSA hate coming to an end? If so, the battle is being won one airport security check at a time.

Delta has taken on an ambitious program for passenger experience enhancement. It will interesting to see whether other SkyTeam members will join this initiative and what competitors do to catch up.

Industry experts have their chance to be heard, but that doesn't guarantee the government will act on the solutions in an efficient manner.