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Tourism
Thai authorities down want to make things more expensive, they just want travelers who have more money to come and spend as much of it as possible.
Skift | 12 years ago
Not supporting the Mugabe regime is a very good reason to criticize or ignore a country, but British travelers need to make sure it's this that bothers them and not fairy tale notions of how much better things were under colonialism.
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Monocle's design editor isn't the usual person you'd expect defending automobiles, but his insights into how cars can be a valuable part of a city's ecosystem speak to the distance city planners still have to go to find the right transport mix.
Airlines
News that a U.S. government agency doesn't want to admit that its very expensive program doesn't work isn't really news, except when that program is touted as an early detection system to keep flyers and cities safe.
Turkey and Greece were the winners as visitors chose to avoid conflict spots yet still seek out culturally rich destinations along the Mediterranean coast.
Since filing Chapter 11, American has been posting its monthly revenue numbers to show off the success of its new strategy and convince banks and backer that it may be able to pull this off on its own.
Andrea Ahles, Fort Worth Star-Telegram | 12 years ago
Media and PR
Bing has reorganized its search results pages to incorporate the social element, but it really has a long way to go before the service evolves into something really useful for travelers.
The UK Border Force is finding more creative ways to prove how terribly run it truly is, but this is a real gem. Rather than adding more security to protect border agents, how about adding more border agents?
You think it's tough to start an airline in the U.S.? Try going up against both established players and a federal government that tips everything in their favor.
Hotels
Every new travel site is a new kind of travel site. How Qantas competes with specialists/startups in online rentals/shares remains to be seen, though it has the advantage of packaging deals with air reservations.
SkiftX
This revelation will create huge ripples for a week among all kinds of vested interests in and around the aviation industry, and then nothing will happen. At least nothing that will be benefit any of the employees of both airlines, or even less so, the passengers.
