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Popular brands know no boundaries. Although fashion and luxury brands have crossed into the hotel industry, Ace is leading the way in smart brand expansion among a new generation of design and lifestyle hotels.

Destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy provided the perfect opportunity to bring NYC’s outdoor spaces under a unified brand, which has the added benefit of highlighting the city’s presence far away from crowded streets and traffic jams.

What flyers and airlines really want is a runway and the absence of one has turned into a royal pain.

Airlines will make their own changes to meet this new demand from Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America.

NYC & Company is missing an opportunity to shine by leading the way to smarter social engagement for tourism marketing organizations. It could be among the first to turn streams into live information chats rather than static PR pushes.

The Carnival Triumph hangover has lasted longer than the cruise industry initially envisioned. Carnival's confident that lower fares will fill the ships, if not the cruise line's coffers.

Hertz acquired Dollar Thrifty last year, and Avis Budget picked up Avis Europe and Zipcar in 2013. Now the two companies, along with Enterprise, are turning their attention toward raising rates. With just three firms running the show, there's not much standing in their way.

The physical phones will stay in the hotel rooms, but only as customer service intercom. Now if some hotel's bold enough to strip away rest of the functions and make these machines usable again....

Parker basically promised the unions that US Airways would be running the show at the new American, and he's delivering on that promise.

FlightCar likens itself to other sharing economy companies by arguing that there are no regulations for its new business model. But it really isn't complicated at all: It is a business, and there are rules about businesses operating at airports.