Articles tagged “redesign”

Coronavirus

Wellness Will Enjoy a Tailwind as a Design Theme for Resorts and Cities: The Long View This Week

Design's importance to travel has taken on a new urgency because of recent events, says Richard Centolella, the pioneering design thinker. We agree, and welcome all the new functionalities.

Wellness Will Enjoy a Tailwind as a Design Theme for Resorts and Cities: The Long View This Week

Online Travel

OpenTable Redesign Means A Bigger Push Into the Dining Room

The OpenTable redesign is meant to counter the dreaded commoditization curse. There's a lot more money and value in being an integral part of the dining experience for consumers and widening the business relationship with restaurants than merely being a reservations platform.

OpenTable Redesign Means A Bigger Push Into the Dining Room

Media and PR

About.com Just Gave Its Travel Vertical a Makeover

About Travel is trying to modernize its site without ruining the search engine optimization advantages that it knows well. In the process, even though it is an ad-supported site, About Travel shouldn't be afraid to empower its experts to let their opinions fly.

About.com Just Gave Its Travel Vertical a Makeover

Airlines

Virgin America Quietly Unveils New Website and Back Pocket-Sized Boarding Pass

In its website redesign, Virgin America is going for simplicity and responsive design regardless whether a traveler is on a smartphone, tablet, or desktop. The idea is to ease the pain of booking by making it visual and easy.

Virgin America Quietly Unveils New Website and Back Pocket-Sized Boarding Pass

Media and PR

U.S. State Department Unveils Smarter, Better Designed Travel Site

The State Department has made big improvements in cutting visa wait times and streamlining the application process abroad so it's good to the government also improving the process for U.S. citizens, especially online.

U.S. State Department Unveils Smarter, Better Designed Travel Site

Online Travel

TripAdvisor Launches a Redesign of the World’s Most Popular Travel Review Site

A redesign has to be more than pretty pictures, and TripAdvisor's facelift is geared to emphasize its no-apologies approach to user-generated content.

TripAdvisor Launches a Redesign of the World’s Most Popular Travel Review Site

Hotels

TripAdvisor Now Removing Old Negative Reviews After Hotels Renovate

Some hotels see TripAdvisor as an adversary, and that's especially true of those that felt the wrath of negative reviews. In recent years, TripAdvisor has worked closer with hotels, or perhaps hotels have just come to accept founder Steve Kaufer's underlying message to the industry: "Adapt or die."

TripAdvisor Now Removing Old Negative Reviews After Hotels Renovate

Hotels

UK “super prisons” could see second life as 3,000-guest luxury hotels

The growing trend of turning prisons into boutique hotels exemplifies consumers’ desire for authentic or unique experiences as well as hoteliers’ appetite for differentiating themselves by pushing design boundaries.

UK “super prisons” could see second life as 3,000-guest luxury hotels

Hotels

Country Inns undergoes brand overhaul to attract young male business travelers

Staid roadside hotel brands are awakening to the existence of branding and the importance it holds in capturing the market of travelers most often on the road these days: young, business oriented, and design conscious travelers.

Country Inns undergoes brand overhaul to attract young male business travelers

Airlines

American Airlines redesign: Employees have mixed reactions, just like everyone else

American Airlines isn't reconsidering altering its controversial redesigned livery and logo. It has too much invested already in the new look. With new fleet initiatives and even a fund for startups, American is trying to reinvigorate more than its color palette.

American Airlines redesign: Employees have mixed reactions, just like everyone else