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 […]

  Getting away to the near bottom of the world is not easy. But when you get there you want the journey to be worth it. Deep in the alpine mists of Patagonia, Chile’s gateway to the bottom of the world, Dos Lagos, an unexpected slice of lodging paradise in the middle of nature’s extreme […]

JetBlue is shaking up the electorate with a 2012 seat giveaway just in time to fly away should the wrong candidate win the presidential election in November. In an unprecedented “Live Free or Fly” campaign, JetBlue is helping distraught voters leave the country by giving away 1,006 roundtrip tickets – or 2,012 seats — to […]

By Andrew Kardon Email, video conferencing and smartphones have all made it easier to plug into work no matter the time or location. But as much as technology has improved the workplace, in some ways it has also become productivity’s worst enemy. A simple email reply or status update on a company’s Facebook page can […]