Articles tagged “california”

Profitability and sustainability go hand-in-hand on Catalina where protecting the environment is big business and drives the island’s main source of income: tourism.

Harry Potter boosted business at Universal’s Orlando park, and a similar result is expected alongside plans for increased hotels and retail for visitors and production employees.

National parks already handled a variety of difficult operating tasks, including park preservation, before the sequestration came along and made just staying open a goal.

This is a radical rethink of the National Parks model on a state level, and California needs it due to it size. If California goes this way, other smaller states will likely be looking at it for guidance.

Starwood will likely align itself as the business hotel for Apple’s global hubs, but the property could just as easily become a home base for visitors seeking an inside look at Apple's HQ.

Why waste time appealing to men who will only turn to their wives for permission to book that plane ticket? California’s marketing board is listening to research that’s found women, especially mothers, are the ones booking travel.

A $1 million boost to California’s marketing campaign isn’t small change, but worth the cost to continue attracting Chinese tourists who spend more than any other group of foreign visitors.

Such homilies work great in The Onion and industry mouthpieces like Travel Weekly, not in real world where people actually live and book online.

Regulators are in the process of creating laws that address Lyft and the other ride-sharing startups, which will either give them the validity to blossom or clamp down on their nascent growth.