Travel in the age of Google, world economic recession and technical innovations piling on faster than Higgs particles around the Hadron Collider can be a complicated topic, indeed. But one San Francisco-based travel-focused think tank, Skift, thinks it has tapped into the hot list of the world’s most defining influences on travel for 2013. The [...]
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Defining Travel in 2013: 13 Hot Trends
April 15th, 2013 
Lark Gould 
Posted in corporate, Recreation 
Tags: Airlines, airports, apps, Chinese, food tours, hotels, smartphones, tourism, travel, travel trends, trends 
No Comments »The Hotels are Star Attractions in these Destinations
April 15th, 2013 Lark Gould For those looking for a change from the tried and true hotel chain, this list of star (although not necessarily five-star) hotels is THE LIST when it comes to hotel stays to remember. They may not be tony rooms with a view but they will be rooms with a story. This list was compiled with [...]
Air, Hotel Rates Rise as Business Travel Slows
October 15th, 2012 Lark Gould 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 [...]
New Survey Gives Travel Planners the Edge
July 1st, 2012 Lark Gould A new study by Egencia, a member of the Expedia group, proves there’s plenty of room for travel sellers to get an edge if they’re armed with the right information. Surveying a database of 300 travel buyers world wide and then incorporating information from Smith Travel Research, ARC and OAG filings, Egencia came up with [...]
Posted in Recreation, Travel and Tourism Tags: Airlines, business, economic trends, economy, hotels, ticket prices, travel agents, travel tips No Comments »Top Hotels in Addis Ababa
July 1st, 2012 Lark Gould By Lark Ellen Gould While most people who come to Addis Ababa come for business – the African Union is here, so is the World Bank, not to mention Ethiopia has more NGO projects in the works than any other country on the continent – those who come for pleasure can also aim to stay [...]
Posted in Hotels, Regional Tags: Africa, African Union, Business travel, Ethiopia, hotels, NGO, OAU No Comments »
