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Articles tagged “development”

Meetings

Hamburg Is Becoming Europe’s Most Ambitious Urban Design Capital

As Europe's largest urban redevelopment project, HafenCity is attracting top architects and planners, but will it attract tourists?

Hamburg Is Becoming Europe’s Most Ambitious Urban Design Capital

Announcements

Can Hotels Move Away From Talking Trends and Start Focusing on Timeless?

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.

Can Hotels Move Away From Talking Trends and Start Focusing on Timeless?

Airlines

VP Joe Biden Calls U.S. Transport Infrastructure ‘Embarrassing’ and ‘Stupid’

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.

VP Joe Biden Calls U.S. Transport Infrastructure ‘Embarrassing’ and ‘Stupid’

Ground Transport

NYC Transport and Tourism Leaders Follow Bloomberg Out of Mayor Office

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.

NYC Transport and Tourism Leaders Follow Bloomberg Out of Mayor Office

Media and PR

Skift Q&A: Lonely Planet’s Founder on Ethics and the Future of Travel

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.

Skift Q&A: Lonely Planet’s Founder on Ethics and the Future of Travel

SkiftX

Global Coastal Cities Risk $1 Trillion in Flood Damages a Year by 2050

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.

Global Coastal Cities Risk $1 Trillion in Flood Damages a Year by 2050

Tourism

Brazil’s World Cup stadiums already looking to life after the 2014 tournament

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.

Brazil’s World Cup stadiums already looking to life after the 2014 tournament

Cruises

Charleston, S.C. residents lose first skirmish in legal battle with Carnival

Carnival may be having a string of bad news, but these aren't the type of fights this cruise line loses.

Charleston, S.C. residents lose first skirmish in legal battle with Carnival

Hotels

Dubai needs more money to finance its ambitious development dreams

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.

Dubai needs more money to finance its ambitious development dreams

Tourism

World Cup building costs in Brazil raise some concerns among UK critics

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.

World Cup building costs in Brazil raise some concerns among UK critics