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Tourism

China’s new passport design is ticking off its neighbors, but India pushes back

Angering the Philippines and Vietnam is one thing, but getting on India's bad side is one thing the Chinese would rather not do.

Frank Jack Daniel, Reuters | 11 years ago

China’s new passport design is ticking off its neighbors, but India pushes back

Airlines

Iranian national airline nearly doubles airfare to cover rising fuel costs

The price hikes matched by foreign airlines won’t affect the country’s small tourism market, but will put strains on cargo air travel in and out of the country.

G. Mehdi, Trend News Agency | 11 years ago

Airlines

Emirates shirt-sponsorship deal buffs up Arsenal’s cash flow

Sports marketing is big business for airlines, and its shirt and stadium-naming-rights deals are spreading the Emirates brands in an important market.

Jeremy Wilson, The Daily Telegraph | 11 years ago

Emirates shirt-sponsorship deal buffs up Arsenal’s cash flow

Business Travel

NTSB drops Blackberry and switches to iPhone 5 contract

Despite the hoopla of recent days about the upcoming Blackberry 10, the NTSB, citing reliability concerns, isn't sticking around to see whether RIM has life.

Nick Taborek and Hugo Miller , Bloomberg | 11 years ago

NTSB drops Blackberry and switches to iPhone 5 contract

Skift Originals

If Bigfoot was real, this is what tourism posters would look like

We just bought the set and it's going up on Skift office walls soon!

Skift | 11 years ago

Airlines

British Airways offers to assist Nigeria in development of its aviation industry

Nigeria seems to be welcoming an assist from British Airways in developing the country's aviation industry. An assist is one thing, but a heavy hand would be something entirely different.

AllAfrica.com | 11 years ago

Airlines

Gol eliminates 850 jobs and returns Webjet’s fuel-inefficent jets

The job losses at Gol will certainly be painful, but transitioning to more efficient aircraft as Gol erases the Webjet brand makes sense in the long run.

Telman Marotto and Karen Eeuwens, Bloomberg | 11 years ago

Airlines

Etihad strikes again, set to pick 24% in India’s Jet Airways in $400 million deal

India's troubled aviation industry is slowly opening up as govt. realizes the folly of not allowing foreign giants in, especially the geographically and culturally close Gulf giants. This will be the first salvo in a coming rush of such deals.

Pooja Sarkar, VC Circle | 11 years ago

Etihad strikes again, set to pick 24% in India’s Jet Airways in $400 million deal

Hotels

Google makes it harder to avoid its Google Hotel Finder

The search giant is making it more difficult to discover travel results outside of its own ecosystem. If only a Panda update could knock out its own SEO spam.

Skift | 11 years ago

Airlines

Here’s what the Hobbit-themed Air New Zealand aircraft looks like

Surely the best airline marketing campaign of 2012.

Rafat Ali, Skift | 11 years ago

Here’s what the Hobbit-themed Air New Zealand aircraft looks like

Online Travel

What happens when your pivot goes horribly wrong?

As a travel-focused startup ourselves, this is tough to watch, but heartening in that the company acknowledged its mistakes quickly and is reacting fast.

Rafat Ali, Skift | 11 years ago

What happens when your pivot goes horribly wrong?