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Airline employees and their families have access to seats that aren’t shown on Kayak and Priceline, making ID90T a valuable source for a very specific type of travel search. It’s current customer base and funding indicates the platform will continue to penetrate the 22 million-strong market.

LP has a formidable challenge ahead of it as Google has signified that it wants to own travel and has the resources to reach consumers at every step of the way as well as hire whoever it wants to make this happen.

In this new world, multi-brand strategy is clearly how big Internet companies want to operate, partly to not mess with the DNA of the startups they're buying.

Not that there was any doubt, but Air New Zealand wants to burnish its NZ roots, and hence the new fern mark which is globally well known as Kiwi mark.

Taiwan’s move is great for tourists and should set a precedent for other countries looking to attract visitors. Look to other countries rolling out Wi-Fi service that enables visitors to check email or get basic information about the destination in their own language.

America’s top 20 inbound tourism markets includes a surprising mix, but as expected, overall rapid growth from Asia and Latin America points to where U.S. tourism efforts should be focused for the at least the next decade.

Even if Cirque doesn't work as well, using U.S. global cultural soft power as a promotional pull is the right idea. Now it is up to the creative implementation, which if Brand USA's history so far guides us, makes us skeptical.