Travel Industry Earnings Coverage

Do healthy cruise line bookings signal a robust economy? We'll find out.

There will be multiple winners in flight metasearch and Skyscanner, a relatively smaller player in the scheme of things, has the tech acumen and potential to be one of them. However, the company realizes it will need a merger/acquisition or an IPO to get headed toward where it ultimately wants to go.

Six Flags is finding that customers are hungry for holiday experiences, especially if scary mazes or decorated trees are involved.

Could low oil prices make Starwood-owned properties a good prospect for investors? The hotel company — looking to shed nearly $1 billion in assets — sure hopes so.

Virgin America's strategy of higher fares and fewer ancillaries likely lets them attract a more loyal and higher spending customer.

Marriott's purchase is really about two things: creating the world's largest hospitality loyalty program and getting access to a few billion in real estate assets that can be sold off. The extra brands are just a bonus.

Expedia's acquisitions versus the Priceline Group's "competitive moat." Rock, paper, scissors. It's an interesting contest and in the $1.4 trillion global travel market, both companies can be winners. Expedia is trending upward and Priceline is showing strong growth, as well.

The argument of Priceline Group CEO Darren Huston is that chains are shooting themselves in the foot -- and their properties aren't happy -- when the chains offer lower rates on their own websites because then their listings on Booking.com won't convert as well as they should. But as Huston says in a different context, perhaps the hotels would reply that they are "playing the long game."

Host's portfolio includes brands from across most of the major chains, which means its earnings are an indication of the health of the U.S. domestic market as a whole.

TripAdvisor CEO Stephen Kaufer gets mystical about the company following "our North Star, navigating our path toward creating the best user experience in travel." Investors could care less about TripAdvisor journey toward the North Star as long as it means great returns on their investments, which ultimately is Kaufer's goal, as well.