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We're glad Siri is still in beta. She can tweet now, but her restaurant reservations' prowess through OpenTable doesn't live up to the promise of the advertisements.

Short term, the Louvre's opening is excellent counter-programming to some more provocative religious artwork that appeared in Paris this week, while long term it's a testament to the depth of the landmark museum's permanent collection.

While the results aren't blockbuster, they point to how bad numbers could have been if inbound tourism hadn't been helped by U.S. government efforts to expedite visa programs.

There may be corruption to go around, but with most of Nigeria's major airlines grounding their planes either by choice or by order, the aviation sector is obviously in disarray at every level.

A long delay at the border crossing for arriving passengers is the worst way to welcome both residents and visitors to your country. Although times improved ever so slightly this year, CBP should look to greater flexibility among its staff to deal with traffic surges.

United's and Lufthansa's first-mover advantage with Passbook support in iOS 6 will be very short-lived as other airlines will undoubtedly be joining the party in the coming days.

Airlines must create a goal in delivering Wi-Fi: either subsidize a basic connection for all passengers and make money from higher ticket sales or offer a high-priced service to a limited number of business flyers.

Wikivoyage in Germany is apparently poised to debut the new travel wiki website in English. Internet Bands proposed a partnership, and now the courts will sort out the dispute.

Southwest just posted the highest second-quarter profit in its history so workers aren't budging on contract concessions that the airline originally proposed 14 months ago.

For the most part, you have to go way beyond the airline brand to figure out how to get the roomiest seats and to avoid the big squeeze in economy class. Travelers need to drill down on the particular route and aircraft type to scope out the seat situation.

Low-cost carriers have come to represent not so much a wide price variation, but a different way of thinking at the corporate level and goals for fliers that are focused on retention and rewards through more creative means.

JetBlue chose ViaSat over Gogo with the hope that fast, free Wi-Fi will attract business fliers to the airline that may stay loyal to JetBlue even when it starts charging for Wi-Fi.