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Cruises
It would be a much more difficult task to bolster passenger rights on board cruise ships than on planes, but the need is no less necessary.
Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago
Tourism
We don't know who these 10 agencies are, likely all offline ones. DoT has of late become a lot stricter on enforcing the decade-plus old rule, and with humans involved with travel agencies, enforcement becomes an issue.
Skift | 11 years ago
Airlines
Lisa Bachelor, Guardian | 11 years ago
Europe has now jumped ahead of North America when it comes to airline passenger rights, and with low cost-zero-service carriers ruling the skies there, these new rules are surely needed.
Media and PR
Huge implications for travel advertisers as well, who advertise and promote heavily online, mobile and now social media as well. Also, for travel bloggers used to taking free junkets, disclosure isn't enough, as the accompanying embedded document explains.
Diane Bartz, Alexei Oreskovic, Reuters | 11 years ago
International operations make it difficult to create an oversight body as forceful as the FAA is in aviation, but streamlining the related work of Coast Guard and CDC would be the place to start.
Curt Anderson, Associated Press | 11 years ago
FAA needs to become a lot more accountable for its lack of accountability oversight over regional airlines and their code shares with mainline carriers. This report and hopefully action after will be a step in right direction.
Joan Lowy, Associated Press | 11 years ago
As we have said from the beginning, Triumph fiasco will likely have more short to medium term effects than Concordia disaster. The hearing will be the start of it.
Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times | 11 years ago
This is cruise industry's worst nightmare come true: scrutiny and regulation. But for its own future, even if increased regulation isn't the answer, simplified regulation surely is.
Hotels
Expect a series of lawsuits to come in from law firms that claim hotels and others have violated ADA.