There are some interesting developments in the Latin American airline industry. News that definitely reshape the balance of the sector.
The new President-Elect from Chile, billionaire Sebastian Piñera,...
Travel Bookings in the Palm of Your Hand
February 5, 2010
The mobile revolution is putting travel in the palm of your hand—quite literally. Transformative new smartphone platforms are quickly...
Among the immense volumes of content and entertainment we consume on a daily basis, finding one item that promises to have a lasting impact on our culture is truly a story of a needle in a haystack. In...
Max Hopper died Monday after a brief illness.
His work and reputation were well known beyond the borders of the travel industry. But within travel circles he was highly respected. Max served with American...
Spanish Online Travel Declines Only Slightly, While Other Channels Struggle
January 28, 2010
As one of the premier leisure travel destinations in Europe, Spain's economy suffered from the decline of...
So you’ve got a sizeable social media presence for your airline over the past year. And now, the employees are starting to participate too. But there’s a constant tug of war, between Legal,...
BOOT will be live at ad:tech in Sydney on March 17. As part of the lead up I did an interview with ad:tech chair Jenny Williams. Here is a link to a blog post by Jenny on the session I am speaking on...
Car rental search site Oodles is part meta-search, part travel agent and part loyal program deal search site. The classic meta-search part is the ability for consumers to search multiple sites in one...
Comments made by Prime Minister Gordon Brown regarding the adoption of year-round daylight saving time aka Single Double Summer Time (SDST) have stirred UK tourism’s hopes of gaining an extra hour...
AIRSHOW-Quiet Singapore Airshow ends with fewer deals
5 Feb’10 || Reuters || Aviation India || Indian Business News Update
… “It was disappointing, no commercial (aircraft) deals, everything...
For those who don’t follow aviation closely, the world’s third biggest airshow is taking place in Singapore right now. And there’re a number of things different about it. For one, there are no big...
The Recreational Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA) forecasts 8.5 million RV owning households in the United States as of 2010, serviced by more than 12,000 RV-related businesses with combined annual...
In response to allegations of waste in travel spending levelled at the Department of Homeland Security by its own Inspector General, the DHS could be forced to create an ‘Office of Travel’...
This is an awesome week for SimpliFlying: The Airshow social media campaign has been going very well and I’ve been featured on CNBC, Channel NewsAsia and a host of other media outlets, as far as...
KLM on Twitter – Earlier today we noticed a quiet, yet intriguing post from the social team at KLM:
Make new friends on board by tweeting a hashtag with your flight details and searching that tag...