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The top 25 theme parks cost as much as $95 more than the top 20 museums and still attracted 107.4 million more visitors, highlighting a revealing trend in traveler’s preference for high energy, colorful entertainment over culture and history.

Tourism Australia’s viral marketing campaign has come to a close, but not without involving celebrities, individuals, and 196 countries in promoting tourism down under. Well played, Australia.

This is certainly one way to "use" travel bloggers.

The use of seat-back entertainment units and no Wi-Fi is a bit of a throwback, but it's good to have a hospitality expert designing the experience for a change.

It's not the worst idea to argue that you shouldn't pay for sex abroad more often than you pay for sex at home. And you don't need a politician to tell you this.

Seaworld doesn’t need any more promotion with visitors already pouring in and profit expectations high; however, the new livery gives Southwest the opportunity to show customers its fun side amidst criticisms of the airline’s rising fees.

As travel costs decreased and social media rose up, a certain set of travelers decided that sharing their journeys was as important as taking them. The results are month-long trips taken in extreme conditions; those that modern-day travel was originally invented to replace.

It's difficult to see why airlines, hotels, and others would want to replace apps that help them manage relationships with loyal customers with a feed to a platform that doesn't do anything special for them.

Anyone who has ever been through LAX's international terminal knows it sorely needed a better gateway, in all senses of that phrase. Now lets see if the humans operating it get any manners re-do, so to speak...

Etihad's aggressive strategy to take equity stakes in five other airlines, and to take advantage of the resulting economies of scale makes a lot of dollars and sense.

Some skeptics believe that passenger self-boarding will be slow to get adoption across U.S. airports because of security concerns. Self-service kiosks in customs face similar hurdles, and have much greater potential to really benefit airline passengers.

Air Asia X may be the only example of long haul no-frills airline that has actually worked, though that was a new & growing market where passenger expectations were very different. Norwegian may have to give up a little, and do some more educational work on expectations.