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Mobile booking is the way of the future and mobile-only startups with clean designs and fast-moving teams will soon find homes at online booking behemoths that know they need to be on travelers' smartphones in order to survive moving forward.

Besides the health issues involved with overwork, the U.S. tourism economy could benefit a lot more if Americans could take more vacations.

Many people can't or don't want to pay $250 and up for a hotel room they'll only briefly use in a trendy urban neighborhood. The Freehand brand is designed for those people.

We wouldn't recommend buying tons into the absolute traffic numbers here, but the relative rankings shows some interesting trends.

Being the nice guy in the neighborhood means nothing if you’re invisible. Canada needs to get out of its funk, get more funky and become more exciting for a whole new generation of travelers coming out of Asia and Latin America.

Brand loyalty in the travel industry has been an achilles heel with few being able to engender much of it. Miles and points are great, but it will be the experience, as well, that will make people keep coming back for more.

As part of El Al's techniques, employees ask passengers a flurry of seemingly random questions before they get to the ticket counter, looking for holes in their stories or deception. If trained properly, U.S. airlines would do well in emulating the practice for security's sake.

The design works well for families who can adjust space for a single cost or petite passengers who can trade less space for cheaper fares. But in the end, it's just another design in which flyers who can afford more space, buy it, and those who can't, survive.

Pinterest is the Pinterest of travel, and it is going to leverage that to move into the sector formally. It may just become the first such company to complete the digital cycle from inspiration to booking.

HotelTonight has succeeded by having a singular focus on mobile. It provides a model for how startups can take on incumbents without losing focus.

Should we view Spirit Airlines as the corporately responsible greenest U.S. airline or as the best gutter marketer in travel? Despite the mixed marketing messages, Spirit is following both tracks in becoming a highly successfu airline, and the envy of many of its peers.