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Articles tagged “chicago”

Hotels

Interview: Behind the Long-Awaited Opening of Virgin’s First Hotel

By focusing on the individual business traveler—especially female—with innovative room product and social F&B programming and design, Virgin Hotels Chicago is a business hotel that doesn't feel like a business hotel.

Interview: Behind the Long-Awaited Opening of Virgin’s First Hotel

Tourism

Tourism PR Professionals Say How Social Media Changed Their Jobs

Some of these changes are more obvious, but bringing PR into paid advertising is an interesting insight that other destinations likely see happening too.

Tourism PR Professionals Say How Social Media Changed Their Jobs

Airlines

Southwest Partners with Chicago’s Magnficent Mile After a Fashion

Southwest certainly knows how to break up the monotony of a flight and to use social media to get publicity for a local festival and partnership that would normally elicit only big yawns.

Southwest Partners with Chicago’s Magnficent Mile After a Fashion

Tourism

Interview: Building the Next Generation Tourism Board for U.S. Cities

The role of tourism bureaus is shifting from sales and marketing to placemaking and place branding. These 50 cities are out in front of that trend.

Interview: Building the Next Generation Tourism Board for U.S. Cities

Tourism

What’s Keeping Chicago Off International Tourists’ Bucket Lists?

Chicago needs to make a bold statement about who it is and what it offers to attract the growing number of foreign tourists ready to spend time and money in the U.S.

What’s Keeping Chicago Off International Tourists’ Bucket Lists?

Airlines

U.S. Travelers Prepare for Winter Delays Thursday Afternoon

Cross-country plane rides to one-hour train commutes will be impacted by weather Thursday evening. It is likely only the first of several large-scale delays to be caused by weather this year.

U.S. Travelers Prepare for Winter Delays Thursday Afternoon

Tourism

Chicago Gets a Piece of the Disney Magic with Restoration of Walt’s Home

The Disney name attracts visitors to destinations worldwide and this new, comparably humble site is still sure to be added to Chicago's list of to-see sites.

Announcements

What a Miami Hostel Portends for the Future of American Hospitality

Many people can't or don't want to pay $250 and up for a hotel room they'll only briefly use in a trendy urban neighborhood. The Freehand brand is designed for those people.

What a Miami Hostel Portends for the Future of American Hospitality

Airlines

Lufthansa Uses Social Media to Share On-the-Ground Campaign Online

Lufthansa's new campaign stirs up interest in its target city, reaches Chicagoans who it doesn't interact with directly, and makes business travelers in other cities envious enough to hope the new service is headed their way. Success, indeed.

Lufthansa Uses Social Media to Share On-the-Ground Campaign Online

Tourism

One World Trade Center’s Reputation as Nation’s Largest Tower Is at Stake

Controversy over whether the tower's spear makes it the country's tallest tower might remove a line from the building's marketing material, but its symbolism and the resilience it represents stay the same.

One World Trade Center’s Reputation as Nation’s Largest Tower Is at Stake