Articles tagged “holidays”

Are travelers getting used to airline fees, or is fee fatigue spurring more road trips? The slightly higher number of travelers taking to the roads this Memorial Day weekend may also be driven by airline capacity cuts. At any rate, at some juncture there will be a tipping point where the airline fee frenzy becomes just too much and decisively changes traveler behavior.

Many hotels are overwhelmed with the current selection of social media platforms, but experimenting with new mediums will pay off in the long run even if the buzz on new products dies out quickly.

Thailand has enjoyed a boost in Chinese tourism for the past year, but the ultimate test for the country’s air travel capacity will be during the next two weeks with more than 3.45 million planned arrivals.

Las Vegas has become the destination of choice for holiday revelers who've outgrown New York's Times Square but still want to ring in the New Year with a bang.

The airline’s act of appreciation is felt by travelers beyond those on flight SQ910 thanks to social media spreading the image of a baggage carousel filled with presents. But it begs the question: Where's your gift if you didn't check a bag?

If you're not home for the holidays already in the UK, you're likely where you're going to be spending the holidays whether you like it or not.

There is definitely room here for a joke about Apple Maps and Santa ending up stranded in the Australian outback, isn't there?

The survey shows that travelers are preparing to deal with the travel annoyances that await them by either adjusting their travel dates, booking hotels instead of sleeping on couches, or just filling their Instapaper queue before the flight.

Airports are ramping up their retail offerings both to become destinations in their own right and squeeze a profit out of flyers listlessly waiting around. Whether it's as successful as this Times trend piece argues is another matter.

Most passengers head to the airport with dismal expectations, so looking at factors like how many passengers pass through the airport, where they are located, and which airlines fly there can either ease or float travel anxieties.