Articles tagged “sports”

Southwest and JetBlue's in-flight entertainment allows them to surprise and please passengers in ways other airlines can't or don't care to.

Opportunities for smaller destinations to jump on such an incident are few and far between but represent a golden opportunity to increase place awareness at a very low cost.

Mountain climbing is a travel activity for extremists, but the peaks symbolize dreams envisioned by travelers and stagnant citizens alike. This video quickly and beautifully highlights their grandeur.

Although some stadiums are famous and warrant trips in their own right, the rise in searches was highest for venues that held noteworthy events or were located in talked-about cities.

This might be one the first times ever that a country DMO (destination marketing organization) is spending so much money to sponsor a sports team, all in the name of promoting tourism.

Adventure tourism has grown alongside a global uptick in travel so it's only logical that the future of the adventure travel market is largely dependent on whether activities and sports become popular among the growing number of tourists from China and India.

This boycott has some growing pains to go through before it becomes a viable movement, but on its way it must be sensitive to the concerns of gay Russians still living in the homeland.

It may seem irresponsible for a city $50M in the hole to dish out for a lesser-known sport, but leading the charge for cricket is just so weird that it may be interesting, at the least.

Putting a popular face in a tourism ad is an easy way to ensure the campaign will enjoy media pick-up, but such ads often err with too much focus on the celebrity and not enough on the destination.

Tokyo has always had more cheap beds than it gets credit for -- they just don't come with Western brand names. If London can pull off an Olympics, Tokyo will barely break a sweat.