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You may not want to count on Consumer Reports for advice about fine gourmet experiences, but their insight on cleanliness is worth a serious look, especially if you'll be on the U.S. interstate system this summer.

21c has built its success on creating innovative properties in overlooked, third-tier U.S. cities. Wil investment require expansion to major markets that are fiercely competitive?

Trendiness without the costs: the siren call of a post-recessionary world.

Despite the debt crisis and other uncertainty, both business and leisure consumers paid more money for their hotel rooms this May.

Expedia doesn't have the same amount of user activity as one-time sister company TripAdvisor, but it can say that its users have stayed in the properties that they rate.

This directly contradicts industry-boosterism from the likes of Phocuswright in U.S. that is used as a proxy by travel agent groups to place PR-driven stories about the edge agents supposedly offer confused online users. For anyone who wants to use common sense, the travails of a giant like Thomas Cook in UK would tell you otherwise.

That UAE monarchy is asking public to vote is a change in itself, a sign of the times in that region.

The Power of Travel Coalition, in lodging a protest over GSA per-diem rates for federal government travel, may have gone too far in objecting to the removal of "upper upscale hotels" as part of the calculations.

CasaHop might be called social tech rather than social travel because it is a heavy tech play in the home-exchange arena.