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Meetings
As Europe's largest urban redevelopment project, HafenCity is attracting top architects and planners, but will it attract tourists?
Greg Oates, Skift | 10 years ago
Announcements
Miami is emerging as a more layered and varied tourism product, spurred by the development of cultural arts districts and aggressive hotel development catering to all segments.
Airlines
We will miss Joe Biden when he leaves office in three years. Let's hope he continues to insult New York-area airports and lavish love on Amtrak in the meantime.
Jason Clampet, Skift | 10 years ago
Ground Transport
Bloomberg is planning to take the lessons learned from significantly changing New York City's physical landscape over the past 12 years to other cities in the U.S. and abroad. This means other cities might look more like the NYC of today than the city itself after a term under new leadership.
Samantha Shankman, Skift | 10 years ago
Media and PR
The travel word's biggest source of expert insight may be on to his second act, but he's still giving stage directions to his first.
SkiftX
As urban populations grow and housing is pushed to the sea, global coastal cities can literally not afford to not invest in anti-flood infrastructure. A tourism industry would take even longer to repair than buildings or the economy.
Samantha Shankman, Skift | 11 years ago
Tourism
Both the World Cup and the Olympics always leave hosts with this problem, so Brazil's problem isn't exactly unique. And since it's shown a determination to be the southern hemisphere's leader, it's likely they'll figure out a way forward on their own.
Tariq Panja, Raymond Colitt and Christopher Spillane, Bloomberg | 11 years ago
Cruises
Carnival may be having a string of bad news, but these aren't the type of fights this cruise line loses.
Associated Press | 11 years ago
Hotels
Dubai has laid out plans for hotels, malls, and Ferris wheels with the hope of attracting big name investors, but many are still wary of a collapse suggesting several of its plans to make headlines this year will quietly vanish over time.
Zainab Fattah, Bloomberg | 11 years ago
It's cute to read a journalist at a paper in an faded empire (which was, coincidentally, knocked down a peg on the GNP chart by the country he's criticizing) write the same things about Brazil that people said about his own country in the months leading up to last summer's Olympic Games.
Jonathan Watts, The Guardian | 11 years ago