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Although jobs will be lost in the short term, hotels expect a healthy bump from the building ban and villages agree a more sustainable form of tourism will have room to grow.

Ease of use should indeed increase conversions, but it's difficult to compare the complexity of dealing with apartment hosts on Airbnb with simply completing a hotel booking from one brand on Hilton.com.

Pilots are anxious to get their hands on iPads for cockpit use. We've heard of one foreign airline that distributed iPads to a limited number of pilots, and a bunch of other pilots brought their own to be included in the rollout.

If you thought Priceline was the largest publicly traded travel company in the world by market cap, you'd be very wrong. Two Taiwanese airlines and a global hotel and casino business boast greater bragging rights.

We're still in early stages of in-flight connectivity, and even earlier in consumer adoption, but bring-your-own-device is a trend that'll only grow bigger in all stages of travel.

United’s designs won’t stop flyers from booking, but their traditional lackluster look hints at a lack of innovation and creativity on deeper executive level.

Carnival Corp. is a cruise company in crisis months after the Carnival Triumph episode caught the world's attention. The cruise industry was pressured to adopt a passenger bill of rights, Carnival is retrofitting its entire fleet, and now its longtime CEO has given up that role. Definitely not business as usual.

The more marriages, the better for the vacation wedding industry.

Female safety is a concern from the streets of Medellin to the alleys of Bangkok to the nightclubs of New York City, but cities that make a concerted effort to cater to the safety and needs of female travelers will see the benefits of friendlier reputations and higher visitation in the coming years.

Wyndham plays on the middle and low end of the market, so the CEO has a reason for saying what he did. But he is right, opulence for opulence sake is Dubai's specialty.