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Ok, lets top this: Shetland ponies, goat-on-a-horse and now Ibis bunnies. What could be a cuter, and hence more viral, travel brand?

The list is all low-cost airlines, but in the coming years don't be surprised if full-service legacy airlines start to creep in here.

The luxury sector is one of the first to benefit from an economic rebound, but it still caters to a very specific market in most regions of the world.

Airbnb doesn't really have a choice here. They either pay for the appeal in the hope that the fine is overturned and then milk that for good PR -- even though the law will remain the same -- or suffer under a dark cloud that will threaten its IPO.

Airlines weren't happy with Lautenberg for his advocacy of tarmac-delay rules, but Amtrak, other mass transit groups, and the organized labor that makes tourism and transportation move loved him.

It is a mixture of timing and strategy that landed Best Western in two of today's most challenging hotel markets, but its agility to convert and brand properties has raised its profile abroad.

As one of Google AdWords' best customers, of course Priceline knows what it's talking about when it cautions potential competitors about the limited effectiveness of SEO, SEM, or any other search- or advertising-dependent ways travel booking sites get their traffic

All global players have their sights set on long-term growth in China and India, but groups should focus short-term efforts on meeting the rising demand in smaller markets of South America and Southeast Asia.

The economic crash that brought the industry down wasn't just about people having less money to travel but hotel developers who build too many of the wrong kind of rooms. Hopefully we'll see an extra layer of caution this time around.

You can think of IATA's proposed new way of selling airline services to passengers as something akin to the difference between the way the first generation of computer buffs used linear DOS commands while today's users access GUI interfaces or tap their way through mobile devices. There's a danger, though, that airlines could mishandle passengers' personal information.