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Yapta pivoted toward the corporate travel market several years ago, and its hotel-rate tracking tool could be useful for business travelers looking to take advantage of fluctuating hotel rates.

National parks' popularity is strong among both domestic and international travelers. Profiles from public figures like Romney only further that trend.

Outsourcing maintenance is great until it isn't.

Hilton Worldwide's room-selection initiative is vindication for fading startup Room77, which sought to get hotels to adapt the feature, but met resistance. Guests will want additional room intelligence, including images, ratings and amenity information.

Virgin America needs to attract more business travelers if it is to fill those first class and Main Cabin Select seats to maintain a passenger revenue advantage over low cost carriers.

As the global business landscape changes, so does the nature of corporate travel – and the needs of a global managed travel program evolve along with it. Organizations today require consistent service and data visibility worldwide, along with support that understands local and cultural sensitivities, to keep their travelers safe, productive, and happy on the road.

If you build it, and it is comprehensive and works at breakneck speeds, they will come. That's the mantra of Google, which is taking its sweet time to expand its flight and hotel partnerships around the world.

Multi-generational travel is only going to increase in the U.S. as boomers -- the first generation of Americans who really owned travel -- begin bringing their families along on all their post-retirement trips.

Let the games begin as the Priceline Group's acquisition of OpenTable, and TripAdvisor's acquisition of LaFourchette officially place restaurants firmly in the "travel" space in terms of mindset. Yelp anyone?