Articles tagged “nyc”

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.

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?

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.

The congressional response to Hurricane Sandy demonstrated that congress couldn't give a rip about New York City, so to gain support proponents of compromise will need to focus on the hundreds of small cuts to airports around the country.

Although foreign tourists only make up a small percentage of total visitors to New York City, the emerging outbound travel markets of China and Brazil are key to driving arrivals to these all-time highs.

There may be honorable reasons guests check in via DayUse, which offers discounted daytime rates, but the potential for tarnishing a high-end reputation has already prompted one hotel to cut its contract short.

These hotels are so new, searches for them on Google don't bring up proper results. Still a long way to go, but would be a remarkable story of an urban city turnaround.

Youth hostels would bring a separate set of vices that are different, though not necessarily better, than what's already filled the market need.

A rare glimpse at what some of the busiest tourist attractions in the world look like with few, or zero, tourists and locals in sight.

It's not unlikely that more people will know the status of the snowfall from their Twitter feed than looking out the window, and big storms give cities a chance to shine on social media, one that they'd be foolish to waste.