Tourism News

Disney has figured out a way to get guests to spend more money once they're inside the gates, so it can afford to thin the herd a bit to improve the guest experience.

These are the tourism trends we were talking about this week.

If this index says anything it's that Muslim travelers are most comfortable traveling and spending on shopping in countries in Asia and where Muslims hold the majority of the population.

Smart content creators are creating travel videos that go beyond simply highlighting a destinations landscape by utilizing unique local characters to build visual narratives that merge person, place and emotion.

Luxury travel is evolving beyond its traditional parameters, and luxe travel brands are meeting these needs by developing more nuanced options for immersive destination experiences so consumers can customize their entire travel journey.

Destination DC's marketing campaign pivoted the city's identity toward a more diverse destination with cool places to go beyond museums, monuments and memorials.

This is an extract from Future Cities, where we explore how major destinations are using smart design to shape the city of the future. In this installment, we look at how Taipei is leveraging city planning, smart technology and the Internet of Things to design the future of urban living.

It’s all too clear that Americans still take the all-work no-play approach to vacation as the average number of days taken by U.S. workers continues to decline. This report looks into the seasonal travel habits of Americans smart enough to take time off, from when they book to where they go. Download this report for FREE!

Tourism bureaus like Visit Seattle have an opportunity to attract a new user base with episodic video-content campaigns and video testimonials. Deciding that is the easy part. Funding is a little more challenging. The hardest part is correct place branding and then muzzling the marketers so the real content people can do their thing.

There's a big opportunity for hotel organizations to both learn lessons from guest management as practiced by the new coworking spaces as well as use their own expertise and resources to create connections with a new breed of customer.