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Cruises

Why it’s still hard to get a sense of crimes on cruise ships

When every bad thing that happens on a ship can become a marketing issue rather than a safety one, lines have more of an incentive to go hush-hush on matters than deal with them aggressively.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

Portico Club and Inspirato face off for vacation club supremacy

Can Portico by Exclusive Resorts and Inspirato resort to marketing super-exclusive vacation clubs to the mega wealthy? What Greek debt crisis? There probably is a market for this, and Steve Case and a bunch of other venture capitalists are making a downpayment on these clubs' viability.

Skift | 12 years ago

Airlines

SkiftDesign: Drive-through airports takes ideas from car-wash line

Wild & futuristic enough that someone with lots of money like Qatar or Abu Dhabi may just bet on this design, or adopt some version of this.

Skift | 12 years ago

Airlines

Britain may push more flyers to regional airports with a new two-tier passenger tax system

With complicated taxes and a blundering border bureaucracy, the U.K. seems hellbent on making arriving and flying within the country as confusing and inhospitable as it possibly can.

Skift | 12 years ago

Tourism

Nevada and the trouble with deciding on a catchy tourism slogan

Despite the money poured into focus groups every year, outside of the iconic "I Love New York" line and the remembered-yet-mocked "Virginia is for lovers," there are few tourism slogans that stick.

Skift | 12 years ago

SkiftX

Consumer Reports magazine offers a list of good and bad U.S. chain restaurants

You may not want to count on Consumer Reports for advice about fine gourmet experiences, but their insight on cleanliness is worth a serious look, especially if you'll be on the U.S. interstate system this summer.

Skift | 12 years ago

Uncategorized

Tourism boom in Myanmar means second airport for Yangon; looking for investors now

The gold rush is on in Myanmar, nevermind the still-lingering ethic tensions. Yangon surely needs one with the huge tourist influx.

Skift | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Maps are getting seriously sexy: Amazon enters the game with an acquisition

The battle for local intelligence has broken into open warfare with the three biggest digital consumer brands stockpiling massive mapping weapons to. Use against one another.

Skift | 12 years ago

Airlines

What it’s like to speed through TSA screening like a VIP

Past officials at the TSA are concerned about any pre-screening systems that don't also include a level of randomness. The current system's inconsistencies do just that. Let's hope this isn't lost as it is rolled out to more airports and carriers.

Skift | 12 years ago

Tourism

David Cameron thinks the Olympics will generate £13 billion over next 4 years

Despite some worrisome early numbers, we won't know whether London '12 will be a Barcelona '92 or a Montreal '76 until some months after the games conclude.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

How 21c museum hotel and other small boutiques are trying to expand

21c has built its success on creating innovative properties in overlooked, third-tier U.S. cities. Wil investment require expansion to major markets that are fiercely competitive?

Skift | 12 years ago