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Couchsurfing offers travelers somethingnone of its competitors can match: free housing abroad. The organization will have to be careful not to ostracize loyal users on its journey for a fresh look.

Whether Google has violated antitrust laws may be up to the courts to decide, but it is clear that cluttering flight and hotel search results screens with results predominantly from its own products harms consumers.

This will surely win some awards in tourism marketing, but the realities of traveling around India aren't as fun or gorgeous. Infrastructure, including transport networks, leave a lot to be desired and inhibit more tourism growth.

Hotel Transylvania, the movie, video and game, typifies today's multichannel marketing, with its digital and social forays.

Surely the best airline marketing campaign of 2012.

Foursquare is walking a fine line between user engagement and commercialization, and its fate is dependent on this balancing act.

And, when smartphone get longer battery life, then travelers can really feel secure about mobile boarding passes.

American Airlines looks like the clear winner in its settlement with Sabre as the antitrust issue clearly took a back seat to using the courts to ram through a better deal for the airline.

Americans can brace themselves for crowded highways and busy airports this week, but the good news is that travel is consistently more congested during Thanksgiving than the December holidays.

"Neighborhood" is the buzzword for online travel sites this week, but it’s too soon to tell whether it’s a stroke of genius for catering to mobile travelers looking for localized content or very expensive dead end.