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Room 77 to remain in the cloud after Amazon outage

Travel companies should fine-tune their cloud strategies after an Amazon Web Services outage took down Room 77, Pinterest, Instagram and Netflix. Given the cost-savings and efficiencies of cloud computing, travel companies won't be abandoning such services -- nor should they -- any time soon.

Skift | 12 years ago

Uncategorized

No big thinking for New York City’s makeover of despised Penn Station

You don't need to be Louis Kahn to appreciate how wretched an experience it is to pass through NY Penn Station. Any proposal that doesn't begin with razing the structure is thinking too small.

Skift | 12 years ago

SkiftX

More on UberX’s low-cost hybrid alternative to Town Cars

It's not price that will continue to be a challenge for Uber, it's local regulations and fleet quality that will keep it on its toes.

Skift | 12 years ago

Tourism

Virgin Australia and Singapore Airlines team up for round-the-world fares

The RTW fares are a good way for the two airlines to demonstrate their reach and flexibility as regional upstarts threaten to siphon away business.

Skift | 12 years ago

Tourism

Kansas City’s new bike share program is incredibly hot

The bike share movement in the U.S. is gathering momentum, especially when you see it move out of large urban centers and into middle America.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

New York City hotels lead the rooftop bar trend

As summer heats up, evening activities migrate to outdoor spaces. Here's how New York stays ahead of the game.

Skift | 12 years ago

Skift Originals

Delta SkyMiles voted worst in frequent flyer survey

There's nothing worse than an airline frequent flyer program when it's tough to book awards travel, and respondents to this Frequent Business Traveler and FlyerTalk survey expressed frustration with Delta in this regard. The airline, which has been all over Facebook with its booking widgets, prides itself on its technology so it must be especially disappointing that road warriors expressed their frustrations with the SkyMiles awards calendar.

Skift | 12 years ago

Airlines

Boeing says the world’s airline fleet will double in the next two decades

Of course Boeing is pushing their own estimates, but the focus of the growth is key: the Asia-Pacific region will see the largest expansion.

Skift | 12 years ago

Tourism

Ethiopia and Sudan meet to talk tourism collaboration

Ethiopia's rich cultural history is a draw, but its current political challenges make it a destination that is often only attractive to less stable countries like Sudan.

Skift | 12 years ago

Tourism

Hawaii’s next quarter to be a record one, thanks to growth from China and Korea

Although the U.S. west coast is Hawaii's top market, China and Korea's rapid growth over the past few years speaks to a giant shift in Hawaii's tourism patterns.

Skift | 12 years ago

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