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Numbers were more positive this year, but the survey respondents almost unanimously agreed that line staff were underpaid and that the blame for the lower wages was due to hotel owners being reluctant to raise wages.

What even high-flying auto towns in Germany and China can learn from the lessons of Detroit, and what the Motor City can learn from how other cities have successfully reinvented themselves.

FAA is one big PR disaster away from clamping down on the cost-cutting-leading-to-lower-safety ways, but it may need that one push for that action.

It's refreshing that two countries are arguing over who's happier as opposed to, say, who has the loosest slots or is more welcoming to underage drinking.

The genie is out of the bottle -- smartphones track your every movement for law enforcement and travel apps' developers purposes. The backlash is coming.

A slew of countries are now pushing to lure European and U.S. retirees as the economies falter in the Western world. Of course Thailand has been doing that forever.

The numbers don't break down visitors by home country, but any hospitality pro will tell you they've been hearing plenty of Brazilian-accented Portuguese this year.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation correctly highlights how unchecked drone flights over the U.S. could pose a threat to civil liberties.

TripAdvisor's path to global growth is a much easier one than Kayak's and it is not hard to envision heightened competition or even a merger of the two over time.

Google's indoor initiative has now gone beyond large museums and notable points of interest to office buildings that don't mind showing where the coffee maker is hidden -- just so long as you're using an Android device.

The New York Times' new travel column "The Getaway" debuts with a checklist of helpful tips and more product placement than Lucky magazine.

A stronger pound and bargains in destinations like Greece are two more reasons why outbound tourism from Britain is up this year, despite campaigns to get people to enjoy "staycations."