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Despite the fact that the La Quinta IPO priced below the brand's intended range due to the overall tumble of the markets in recent days, investors are buying into La Quinta's growth story. With a CAGR of 18% from 2003 to 2013, there's little not to love.

Is Big Brother really so bad as long as he meets your every in-flight entertainment need?

This one chart explains why the U.S. tourism industry is so concentrated on catering to travelers from Brazil, China, and India: They are the fastest growing demographics among the top spending tourists.

Most professional travel roles boil down to marketing and trying to get travelers to pick your destination, hotel, or airline over all other choices. You ace that and your skills applicable in almost any sector.

Advertising technology is changing how marketers drive people to booking in digital, gone are the days of just search engine marketing.

Sometimes corporate responsibility conflicts with the bottom line, and Starwood is going to find out if its ban on shark fin will create a problem for it in Asia. Kudos to Starwood for taking this step.

'Wide body' holds the promise of more room. Let's hope the airlines don't screw it up.

Where once in-flight Wi-Fi was an insane perk that was hard to imagine (way back in 2008), it's now become so expected that both airlines and providers are in a race to provide the fastest -- if not the cheapest -- connection.

The U.S. tourism industry is laser focused on tourists from a handful of countries, but it will need to adapt its marketing, strategy, and product offerings for tourists from a broader set of countries in order to continue its record visitor growth.

As online travel agencies expand their grip into vacation and business travel destinations, their large mobile user base gives them an advantage, as does the fact that as a rule they have much greater technology resources than do hotels.

With other Southeast Asian metropolises realizing the value of cultural arts to help attract new legions of global travelers, Hong Kong zoomed to the front of the line with the Art Basel partnership.

While it is good to see the highest growth markets from the emerging countries, the largest markets by volume, the traditional source markets for visitors to U.S., is not rising fast enough. Whether Brand USA has a future or not, the future marketing of America has to balance both.