Tourism News

A state-owned airline can work, it just doesn't when its service is terrible and its leadership is a gaggle of political cronies.

Adventure tourism has grown alongside a global uptick in travel so it's only logical that the future of the adventure travel market is largely dependent on whether activities and sports become popular among the growing number of tourists from China and India.

Stag parties create a huge tourism industry, but its one that many cities would rather do without.

The list, even though one-company specific, shows the meetings and conventions industry is coming out of recession as the broader economy improves. Cities with airports near city centers are doing a lot better.

Don't pooh pooh them off, whole economies have been built on them; cliches drive the travel economy ever since we started making travel brochures. They are what drive people to book these trips, and do what everyone else has done before them.

Facebook, Twitter, and other social sources are now looked upon as legit travel information sources, while TripAdvisor lords over us all.

Tourism's importance to the growth of the U.S. economy can not be underestimated and it deserves greater consideration by politicians at every level -- especially the stubborn ones.

Switzerland is shifting away from tradition and triteness with a headturning array of next-generation architecture for hotels, convention spaces, and attractions.

Saggy pants bans touch tourism and also people wanting to just walk or ride around the nation's cities in their everyday lives. Why is it that some legislators and their constituents have such distaste for others who don't look or dress the way they do? The bans do indeed have racist overtones.

This strange but successful campaign challenges traditional wisdom about how to promote a tourist destination.