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Hotels and travel providers weigh the benefits of daily deal sites

U.S. hotels can look to Australia for examples of properties that have worked with flash sites and still maintained a certain integrity of their rates.

Skift | 12 years ago

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Uber will try to shed premium image with new hybrids priced less

The tech press and early adopters love Uber, but adoption outside of that circle has been hampered by, among other things, high prices. The new service will be the first real test of whether Uber is reinventing the game or just pointing towards its next iteration.

Skift | 12 years ago

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Will London’s Olympic park kill the city’s tech industry?

City planners and developers love to throw around the promise of a hot industry moving into a location, but unless there are real benefits to encourage uprooting, there's no reason for London's current crop of tech stars to leave Shoreditch.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

SkiftDesign: CitizenM: Pre-fab luxe hotel chain runs with the Ikea model

Trendiness without the costs: the siren call of a post-recessionary world.

Skift | 12 years ago

Tourism

Tourism and hipsterism: The High Line case study

Gentrification doesn't have to to all be about Disneyfication.

Skift | 12 years ago

Cruises

Carnival fires Indian crew who protested 75p an hour wages and crap tips

Carnival isn't alone in their poor treatment of ship employees, but its immense market cap argues that it could afford to not be so stingy and callous.

Skift | 12 years ago

Tourism

The upside of traveling post-disaster is not just economic

Post-disaster tourism should always take its cues from locals as opposed to voluntarism business that feed off wealthy travelers' desire to "help."

Skift | 12 years ago

Tourism

The U.S.’s new transportation bill is a complete failure

The federal government failed once again to address the growing need for well-thought out urban and regional mass transit projects, forcing metro authorities to step in and fill the void.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

Every part of the world saw better hotel rates this May than last year

Despite the debt crisis and other uncertainty, both business and leisure consumers paid more money for their hotel rooms this May.

Skift | 12 years ago

Tourism

What the wrecking balls mean to Beijing’s culture and history

This non-emotional report of a city in a state of rapid change rarely seen before cuts to Beijing's central challenge: Can you build the city of the future while wiping out its past?

Skift | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Loyalty-card startups give merchants a reason to ignore Groupon

The startups make the difference between flash sale sites and loyalty programs clear: One's just about the deal, the other's about building a loyal clientele.

Skift | 12 years ago