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Carnival Corp. is a cruise company in crisis months after the Carnival Triumph episode caught the world's attention. The cruise industry was pressured to adopt a passenger bill of rights, Carnival is retrofitting its entire fleet, and now its longtime CEO has given up that role. Definitely not business as usual.

Female safety is a concern from the streets of Medellin to the alleys of Bangkok to the nightclubs of New York City, but cities that make a concerted effort to cater to the safety and needs of female travelers will see the benefits of friendlier reputations and higher visitation in the coming years.

The top 25 theme parks cost as much as $95 more than the top 20 museums and still attracted 107.4 million more visitors, highlighting a revealing trend in traveler’s preference for high energy, colorful entertainment over culture and history.

Tourism Australia’s viral marketing campaign has come to a close, but not without involving celebrities, individuals, and 196 countries in promoting tourism down under. Well played, Australia.

This is certainly one way to "use" travel bloggers.

It's difficult to see why airlines, hotels, and others would want to replace apps that help them manage relationships with loyal customers with a feed to a platform that doesn't do anything special for them.

Anyone who has ever been through LAX's international terminal knows it sorely needed a better gateway, in all senses of that phrase. Now lets see if the humans operating it get any manners re-do, so to speak...

Etihad's aggressive strategy to take equity stakes in five other airlines, and to take advantage of the resulting economies of scale makes a lot of dollars and sense.