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Hotels

The transformation of hotels from places to sleep to opportunities to shop

Buying local art and unique furniture you see in your hotel room is the logical culmination of a trend that began with hotel companies like Starwood marketing their linen and bedding offerings and smaller boutiques selling custom toiletries.

Scott Mayerowitz, Associated Press | 12 years ago

Airlines

Dubai International Airport sees 14% jump in traffic in the first half of 2012

Over the past decade Dubai has risen from an airport few could place on a map to one that most long-haulers get excited about transiting through. Expect it to grow even more as its main competitors have maxed out their real estate options.

Associated Press | 12 years ago

Tourism

Egypt pulls a Geraldo: Opening tombs to generate publicity and spur tourism

It goes without saying that opening millennia-old tombs isn't sustainable. Here's hoping that Egypt's tourism officials will focus on long-term solutions to their current tourism problems.

Skift | 12 years ago

Tourism

Now the Colosseum of Rome is leaning, repairs shutdown a possibility

What if the Colosseum has to be shut down for repairs, the way Leaning Tower of Pisa was closed for more than a decade all through the 1990s? What losses could it inflict on Italian tourism?

Josephine McKenna, Telegraph UK | 12 years ago

Hotels

SkiftUX: Samsung Galaxy used at London Olympics for hotel check-in & room control

Too bad it was only for 40 rooms, a smart promotion for the official handset of Olympics. At some point, it won't be handset tied, just an app across any platform.

Skift | 12 years ago

Airlines

US Airways wants you to spend more money during its flights

Offering miles for in-flight purchases seems like more obvious incentive than one-tap credit card transactions for airlines hoping to sell more event tickets and travel deals to travelers halfway to their destinations.

Hugo Martin, Los Angeles Times | 12 years ago

Airlines

U.S. airlines get ready for a big battle over the EU’s emissions scheme

The EU's trading scheme isn't a surprise, it's just that airline companies and nations have been slow to address the issues surrounding Brussels setting global aviation policy.

Valerie Volcovici, Reuters | 12 years ago

U.S. airlines get ready for a big battle over the EU’s emissions scheme

Tourism

London’s workers stay home today, ease Olympic transit crunch

Ever since Friday night's opening ceremony, Londoners have turned their Olympic frown upside down. Today's Tube solidarity is another sign of success.

David Millward, The Daily Telegraph | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Amtrak gets with the program, etickets now across network

You don't have to take a printout now, imagine that! But seriously, we're happy to use Amtrak app to check in.

Skift | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Infographic: How tourists use the Internet before, during, and after their trip

Vacation is supposedly a time to disconnect from technology, but this break out of the $162 billion online travel industry shows how broadly we depend on internet from pre-trip planning to post-trip photo sharing.

Skift | 12 years ago

SkiftX

Tourism going to the dogs? U.S. travelers just can’t seem to get enough of pet travel

People who travel with their pets are more rapidly passionate about the subject than even the most strident of family travel advocates. For the most part, there's room for everyone to get along. Unless you leave your dogs in the hotel room while you go out dancing, as the people next to me did last night.

Hugo Martin, Los Angeles Times | 12 years ago