Change or die. That’s the chorus of an industry spinning out in too much motion. And it was also the wisdom that came out of a sobering talk given to travel agents at ITB Asia last month in Singapore.  Delivering the news was Adrian Caruso, CEO of TAFastrack a digital marketing firm in Australia that […]

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By Lark Ellen Gould Two new studies are predicting rises in hotel and airline rates and a slightly expanded, but notably sluggish, growth in the corporate travel sector. Egencia, a formidable travel management company owned by Expedia, recently unveiled its 2013 Global Corporate Travel Forecast for air fares and hotel rates and found Average Ticket […]

By Lark Ellen Gould Hawaii is on a high these days with hotels reporting healthy occupancy rates, a destination-branded airline touting double-digit growth numbers and visitor counts that are making life look like its 2006 all over again. Tourism spending over the first nine months of the year rose 20% from the previous year to […]

By Lark Ellen Gould Anyone who has traveled to Hawaii or through the Pacific with an eye on where to stay has come across the now ubiquitous brand of Outrigger Hotels and Resorts. The company, which is nearly synonymous with Waikiki, got its start in 1947 when Roy and Estelle Kelley opened their first hotel, The […]