Articles tagged “travel trends”

This week in aviation, once airlines started recovering from Hurricane Irma, we examined basic economy. United Airlines was pushing the ultra-low fares hard, but is now easing up.

This week in digital news, we held a conference call in which our journalists and researchers explained the change of power at Expedia. Speaking of online travel agencies, Trivago bought too many ads and Hipmunk got deeper into corporate travel.

This week in aviation, basic economy rears its ugly yet attractive head. Legacy carriers are lowering fares to compete with low-cost carriers, which makes flyers happy, but investors not so much.

This week in hospitality, HotelTonight learned that the last-minute market might be too small, and century-old Taj Hotels has a new CEO.

This week in tourism, we stepped back for a broad view. We examined what "luxury" and "rich" actually mean nowadays, and reviewed the Black Travel Movement over the past year.

This week in hospitality, we looked outside the box at other sectors. Some hotels mimic airlines when structuring their fees and West Elm Hotels is hooking up with Williams-Sonoma.

This week in aviation, we took a global view. American may unbundle fares to Europe, Air China worries about visa denials, and United's president talks Gulf carriers.

This week's digital news was off the charts: Expedia's CEO left for Uber and was replaced by Mark Okerstrom. On Thursday September 7, our expert journalists and researchers will break it down for you in a conference call. When you're done reading about the Expedia-Uber shakeup, we also analyzed Ctrip's earnings and Kayak's layoffs.

This week's aviation news went global. KLM started accepting WeChat Pay, a staple for Chinese consumers; Air Berlin's bankruptcy dented the European market, and Qantas suggested a 20-hour nonstop.

This week in hospitality news, when we weren't thinking about surge pricing before the solar eclipse, we were digging into Airbnb's ongoing prep for an initial public offering.