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Hotels
Mockery is the best form of flattery as Las Vegas creates its own version of New York mainstays like Nobu and now Gansevoort.
Skift | 12 years ago
Cruises
Norwegian will be rolling in the new ship Breakaway this spring, which has the potential to revitalize the market or spark increased ship calls for a stronger 2013.
Ground Transport
This makes more sense than the paper pamphlet turnstiles that are largely ignored by tourists and service announcements that are impossible for locals to hear.
Associated Press | 12 years ago
Skift Originals
New York is pushing borough tourism as a means of reaching its 55 million visitor goal by 2015 and spark economic prosperity in quest for bragging rights in the domestic and international travel market.
Samantha Shankman, Skift | 12 years ago
The NYC-sanctioned report paints a rosy picture of the city’s hospitality industry, but a closer look reveals that the same unions boosting employees’ paychecks are consistently at odds with hotel management.
Online Travel
Brands look to customer exposure and high demand as a means of growth, but it’s their legacy and name familiarity from rural properties that lead to their urban success.
Going by the generalized video and hotel recommendations, NYC & Company seems to be going for mass market headlines-only tourists, for whom TV and movie version of Brooklyn is the epitome of artisanal.
SkiftX
Tourists and locals alike will notice the change when Times Square finally completes its four-year renovation this summer, but can a Euro-style pedestrian area really change the logjam that is one of the world’s busiest tourist attractions?
Tourism
The city's enthusiasm for the boroughs coincides with multiple hotel openings in Brooklyn and the Bronx, as well as the emergence of non-corporate attractions that help distinguish the neighborhoods from the chain-store monotony that defines much of Manhattan.
