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Tweets at passengers and sponsoring food trucks helps airlines soothe flyers bothered by crowded flights and hefty fees.

Chinese travel spend is clearly on the rise, but this Visa study also found that easier bookings and increasing options are leading all tourists to allocate more money to more trips in the coming years.

When airlines reduce capacity it seems like a benign act, but not from the vantage of impacted cities, which suffer the consequences.

"Gangnam Style" was already an unofficial Korean tourism vehicle, so why not make it official? Tune in next month for the video clip.

Ryanair currently has bare-bones advertising on its own website, but it sees an opportunity to monetize customers and noncustomers visits to Ryanair.com by selling the data to advertisers. If you visit Ryanair.com, you have a marketing target on your back, but the airline's actions aren't much different from other carriers and hotels.

The report doesn't say, but the point is clear: Select the bus or subway whenever possible.

The low ranking is given by a report that includes 200 jobs from all industries; flight attendants would be near the top of an industry-specific list that included Indian train toilet cleaners and Ryanair’s PR manager.

ChoiceSeats enables US Airways to fill more planes (with ancillary fees), and it is a humongous and growing revenue source for the airline.

Blackstone is a very savvy, metrics-oriented hotel investor, and with $10 billion available to invest in real estate, the world's largest hotel operator is a lodging force to be closely monitored. Despite its public company status, Blackstone is fairly tight-lipped about its strategy, and the industry awaits Blackstone's next chess move.