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Enterprise to introduce touch-screen self-service kiosks at 50 U.S. airports

Customers of Alamo, Enterprise, and Rent-A-Car will be able to bypass the desk, but as yet another airport service becomes more automated, sales associates can’t be excited about the prospect of losing their jobs to a computer.

Skift | 12 years ago

Enterprise to introduce touch-screen self-service kiosks at 50 U.S. airports

Hotels

Buuteeq attracts $10 million in funding for hotel marketing expansion

Concur has plenty of loose change for these types of investments, some of which will pay off by spurring innovation and tighter company-to-company relationships.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 12 years ago

Tourism

Inclusive tourism: New Zealand launches a halal tourism guide for Muslim travelers

Smart move from Tourism New Zealand both from a strategic point of view in tapping a huge market, as well for making travel more inclusive. It already has a big halal meat industry supplying to the rest of the world, and this effort makes good use of that.

Rafat Ali, Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

Blackstone has big (global) plans for newly acquired Motel 6 and Studio 6 brands

Motel 6 has gotten a bad rap under Accor, but Blackstone is placing its bets on guests looking for a renovated design at economy prices as it moves the brands into both the international and extended-stay markets.

Skift | 12 years ago

Blackstone has big (global) plans for newly acquired Motel 6 and Studio 6 brands

Tourism

War tourism brings foreigners to hike Nepal’s now-peaceful Guerrilla Trek

The trails where the Maoist party once fought for their independence are now hoped to bring economic stability to the nation, a technique that has succeeded in Vietnam and China.

Skift | 12 years ago

War tourism brings foreigners to hike Nepal’s now-peaceful Guerrilla Trek

Airlines

Fight for your routes: Easyjet promises $200 London-Moscow fares for three years, if given chance

Virgin, thorn in the side of every company and every industry they're in, usually for the better for consumers. As Russia visa regulations are opening up, any competition on flights and fares would only result in a tourism boost.

Kari Lundgren, Bloomberg | 12 years ago

Skift Originals

White House touts Obama visit to “Hoover Damn”

Fact-checking is all the rage during the 2012 Presidential campaign, typos or misinformed email marketers notwithstanding.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Skype starts offering Wi-Fi in the UK and adds partners to its classroom initiative

Although Skype’s usage continues to climb at expedient rates, partnerships, in place of product innovation, will keep Skype ahead of its competitors for only so long before younger companies capitalize on new technology.

Skift | 12 years ago

Airlines

Post-Olympic travel boom helps Easyjet boost profits for fiscal 2012

Turns out people just wanted to get out of UK post-Olympics to celebrate, and short haul, low-cost was the best way to go.

Kari Lundgren, Bloomberg | 12 years ago

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Win for Sir Richard Branson as government kills contract with West Coast rail rival

Even though the contract doesn't automatically revert to Virgin, Branson's win is huge here as his persistence forced the government to shuffle ministers and criticize its own handling of the bidding process.

Rachel Cooper, The Daily Telegraph | 12 years ago

Airlines

Qatar Airways to resume Yangon flights as airlines rush to Myanmar

Myanmar and Yangon desperately need more airport capacity, as the rush of tourists flow in.

Skift | 12 years ago