The future of U.S. tourism: China, Brazil and Saudi Arabia lead the way
Airlines will make their own changes to meet this new demand from Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America.
Hotel News
Hotel industry copes with recovery that hasn’t reached some areas
Occupancy, growth and RevPar rates in secondary markets are trailing those in big cities. Yes, it's a tale of one recovery in major markets, and in smaller locales, it's not so much.
No one will ever miss the hotel phone
The physical phones will stay in the hotel rooms, but only as customer service intercom. Now if some hotel's bold enough to strip away rest of the functions and make these machines usable again....
Oyster hotel review site fires staff and hopes for asset sale
Axing the staff doesn't bode particularly well for a sale of Oyster.com, which many people said from its beginnings didn't have a viable business model. A expensive experiment, with Oyster's professionally written reviews taking precedence over hotels' marketing drivel, has all come to this.
As Iraq’s troubles continue, Kurdish region building a $2 billion resort
Iraqi Kurdistan has been a peaceful region in spite of larger overall trouble, and is now going through a tourism boom.
Is this the tech utopia hotel we really want on our holidays?
There is smart use of technology at hotels, and then there are gimmicks. The line between the two are thin, and party-central Ibiza is the perfect venue to indulge on the either spectrum of these.
Top markets for vacation homes in the U.S.: From Nantucket to Gatlinburg
Trulia's examination of both real estate prices and search habits based on a person's primary residence offers excellent insight into the spending habits and travel intent of Americans' domestic vacation habits.
Hotel design literally frames the Pacific Ocean along the Peruvian coast
The most remarkable hotel designs are often never built, but their creation is integral to the development of realistic hotel design, even if aspects of each unique idea can only be implemented one at a time.
How Aloft hotels are making it easier to skip the check-in desk
The reliance upon a card that Aloft must send you in the mail seems like a step back rather than forward for all but the most frequent and loyal customers. Here's hoping Starwood expands this across all their brands for a much more useful service.
Emerging economies care more about luxe hotel brands, even if the U.S. leads
The luxury sector is one of the first to benefit from an economic rebound, but it still caters to a very specific market in most regions of the world.