Travel tips: Hotel safety tips for any season
http://www.boston.com/travel/explorene/blogs/packup/2012/08/hotel_safety_tips.html
When it comes to travel, we're all looking to save a dime. Thanks to travel websites like Expedia, Hotel Tonight, Hotels.com, Travelocity, and others, you can find a great deal on a hotel room at the last minute and head out of town for a much-needed ...
Consumer advocates declare war on hidden hotel fees
http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/sns-ed-perkins-sends-message-to-stop-hidden-hotel-fees-20120828,0,5958859.story
"Stop hotels from hiding part of their true prices from consumers and business travelers." That's the message Kevin Mitchell of the Business Travel Coalition and I sent to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Aug. 27, 2012. Our target, of course, is ...
The Navigator: The drip, drip, drip of mandatory resort fees
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/the-navigator-the-drip-drip-drip-of-mandatory-resort-fees/2012/08/29/53519ec4-f097-11e1-adc6-87dfa8eff430_story.html
Resort fees are routinely hidden on travel and hotel sites, but nowhere, as Steve McEvoy recently discovered, are they more dramatically concealed than on such so-called ?opaque? sites as Hotwire and Priceline. When McEvoy booked a room at the Marriott ...
Travel & Leisure Names Israel's Efendi Hotel Among 50 Best New Hotels in the ...
http://jewishvoiceny.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1832:travel-aamp-leisure-names-israels-efendi-hotel-among-50-best-new-hotels-in-the-world&catid=117:travel&Itemid=300
The Efendi Hotel in Acre, Israel, was recently named one of the 50 best new hotels in the world for 2012 by Travel & Leisure magazine. The hotel is comprised of two Ottoman-era mansions that were once palaces that housed the rulers and wealthy Ottomans ...
Hotel business sees improvements
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120828/NEWS07/208280337/-1/NEWSMAP
"What we are seeing in urban and Central Oregon is partly the return of business travel," said Carolyn Hill, regional tourism marketing chief executive officer. "We never attracted a large business travel segment anyway because we don't have a ...
Yabbedoo seeks to disrupt with local deals and travel news service
http://www.tnooz.com/2012/08/29/tlabs/yabbedoo-seeks-to-disrupt-with-local-deals-and-travel-news-service/
The result was the combination of tourist related information and hotel information. We used that to create Yabbedoo as it is today. What is wrong with the travel, tourism and hospitality industry that requires another startup to help it out? The ...
Ambassador Hotel in category that's performing well nationally
http://www.bizjournals.com/wichita/blog/2012/08/ambassador-hotel-in-category-thats.html
Occupancy in boutique hotels, a category to be occupied by the 117-room Ambassador when it opens mid-December, led an uptick in performance across niche segments in the lodging industry, according to a story by Smith Travel Research on ...
7 of America's hottest hotel restaurants
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/28/travel/hottest-hotel-restaurants-t--l/index.html
(Travel + Leisure) -- Convenient as they are for a quick bite, hotel restaurants can get a bad rap for uninspired menus and bland atmosphere ? sometimes, deservedly so. But there's been a countervailing trend gathering strength since the mid-'90s, and ...
