If you think hotel industry is fragmented here, try India, where it is hard to tell the difference between real estate and hotel industry. Now, as airlines and rail are being booked at volume online in India, hotels are coming into the mix of online travel.
The Office wasn’t taped in Scranton, but its goal of portraying real-life in a small town life led to close ties with the local businesses, a relationship that put the town in front of millions of American viewers.
Canada’s decision to pull leisure marketing from its poorest performing markets is an interesting tactic, but one that gives individual destinations an opportunity to stand out without competing against the more influential country brand.
The impact pop culture has on tourism can be seen no where as clearly as the physical space in Universal where the Jaws ride is about to be replaced by Harry Potter’s Diagon Alley.
Car rental companies don’t often air the details of market reach and regulatory issues, making Enterprise’s comments a broad but interesting overview of an industry that remains unaffected by the growing number of startups trying to disrupt it.
Usually, any despotic tourism-dependent island nation with surfeit of resorts has a lot of skeletons hidden outside of these resorts. Fiji's getting highlighted now.
There’s intense competition for the revenue that film shoots bring in, and there are plenty of cities willing to look more generic to get a piece of LA’s booming tourism market.