AirAsia’s India launch may come with free seats to grab marketshare
AirAsia will come in with a big splash, but will have to sustain the cost structure long term and learn from past failures of players before them.
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The brilliant design idea to put a local farmer’s market inside a NYC hotel
New York’s trend-seeking tourists and locals would flock to the hotel that blends two of the industry’s hottest concepts, locally grown cuisine and sustainable design.
Hotel brands miss huge opportunities to engage Chinese travelers online
Social media has become a major resource for bookings and marketing in the West, but hotels aren’t using the same tools in the market they’re most desperate to reach. Expect a major boost for the hotels that are the quickest to adapt.
Star Wars park coming to Disneyland? Survey says ‘maybe’
Uh, yeah. A Star Wars theme park would make Universal's Harry Potter land look like a pre-school, and Disney's got the experience and the money to make it happen.
Dallas tells the country it’s changed in a $4.2 million rebranding campaign
Business travelers might be able to find Dallas on a map, but for many leisure travelers it's lumped in with a number of Southern cities making the potential success of this campaign a major boost for the city.
Moscow leads the world in hotel room service charges
From it's ridiculously priced yet still awful restaurants to its Euro trash-inspired fashions, Moscow has some fantastic ways to screw over travelers, and its hotels lead the way for many other industries.
Mexico’s future as a top ten global destination is in jeopardy
The headlines on border violence, cruise tours having trouble and other similar reports in media are not just sensationalist, there are real issues here that the country needs to address.
Winter travel firms are adapting to climate change by adding summer activities
The writing's on the wall, and the wall's melting too.
How Iceland purged itself of its financial sins and started growing again
On the way back to tourism and other less risky industries as the engine of Iceland's growth.
U.S. condemns United Nations’ $769 million bill for business class airfares
The U.S. is hypocritical to point out the flaws of the international body with its own history of lavishly spending employees, a problem that the sequester has taken care of in recent weeks.