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Overall, this is a very healthy trend as data analysis -- yes, big data -- is being applied to flights, airports and day of travel, showing travelers they are not all created equal.

Frequent travelers have plenty of incentive to earn miles through Rocketmiles, but the startup will have to expand its hotel options and offer a cleaner experience than its competitor for sustainable growth.

Episode three sets high goals for the rest of the season: Bourdain succeeds in dispelling myths about much discussed destination. This and similar episodes are not only important for each country’s people, but for Part’s Unknown viewers who are one step closer to understanding their complicated past.

Neither of them are catchy enough, but among the two, the winner is obvious, the "Isle of Awe Land." Which is what Iceland is anyway.

PCVST may have a ton of potential customers, but the complex's management is the 800-pound gorilla of New York City rentals and an enemy that's better avoided than attacked head on.

Uber must feel a certain victory in being the first app to get approved for the NYC pilot program after its hurried exit last fall. Who says second chances don’t exist?

Things have come full circle in the decade-long Priceline-Hotwire skirmish. Over the last couple of years, Priceline officials conceded that Hotwire was taking share from Priceline's Name Your Own Price business, which has been de-emphasized. Now Expedia execs say Priceline's Express Deals have been eating Hotwire's lunch.