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QuickMobile is addressing a huge market opportunity with its mobile solutions for meetings and conventions.

With three billion check-ins, Foursquare has a Fort Knox of data about consumers' retail habits, but a sizeable portion of its 30 million tips about places leave a lot to be desired. Foursquare will have to do a lot of partnering or get the check-in crowd into review-writing mode to improve its search results.

We wouldn't book our hotel based on any of these three dining choices, but the Blackstone Grill looks like it has a comfortable vibe.

Critics always claimed that the voucher business was built on a house of cards, and now Travelzoo is admitting that the house is falling.

Everyone wants a little chunk of the last-minute business. It's going to come down to who makes it easiest to find what a user wants with the least number of taps on the smartphone.

An old boys' club mentality and careless spending practices won't cut it, if indeed the latest Congressional allegations about Brand USA are true. Meanwhile, it is premature to pass judgment on Brand USA's marketing efforts. That verdict will come when visitors' numbers come out next year.

More of a tuck-in picking-up-assets acquisition for Tripadvisor as it ramps up its social travel efforts, as a layer on top of its giant behemoth of a machine.

Other stories have pointed out clearly what the real challenge is here: The pilots don't trust management and management is attempting to wring more concessions out of the pilots. It's a recipe for nothing getting done.

Passenger demand growth in North America is projected to be tepid, at 1.3% in 2012, but tight controls on capacity have improved the profit picture.

The 30-day period may produce radical changes in how Penguin runs its travel program, but it won't determine whether or not the publisher's travel business will survive the digital threats it has failed to address for so long.