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The selfie stick will be here to stay in one form or another, even if naysayers don't believe so. With travelers wanting to be cautious about who they hand their phone to in some countries, this product is a huge safety net many are willing to pay for.

Hudson realizes that travelers aren't in desperate need of books or magazines as they are cell phone chargers and food for their journeys. Still, we'd love to see a quality selection of print material to read on a flight.

Congress is partly to blame for not approving more funding to build additional airports, but airports and airlines themselves also shoulder some responsibility, trying to pack as many flights into a day as possible. It's unclear when this congestion will be resolved, if ever.

Newark's Terminal C is on track to help raise NYC area airports from the ashes and make passengers want to arrive early to these airports out of desire rather than obligation. Terminals A and B? Still wastelands.

Nothing speaks to TripAdvisor's ascendance than travel operators literally begging for the service to allow users to review their products.

Hotels say they're supportive of graduate education and offer tuition benefits for employees, but not having a head count of how many hold advanced degrees says something about how they actually track professional development. Ultimately, like most other industries, seniority is the biggest factor for climbing the ladder.

The keyless entry system has been long-awaited for the industry. With a successful beta test, let's hope Starwood's system continues impressing guests. It will also be interesting to see how many guests bypass reception completely upon arriving at hotels and how many still stop to notify the hotel that they've arrived.

This makes sense, you have to be knowledgable and have a skill set for most of these activities and a college education may help you develop those skills.

As millennial travelers continue to grow in affluence and influence, travel and tourism companies need to develop strategies to better engage with and drive business from this rising new breed of customer.

The Travel Leaders Group survey means that this has been a pretty good year so far for luxury travel for U.S.-based businesses.