Marriott Wants to Push You to Tip Housekeeping

Travel Update reports that Marriott wants you to tip housekeeping. [A]s many as 1,000 hotels in the Marriott system – Ritz-Carlton, Marriott, Residence Inn, JW Marriott – are going to leave a special tip-reminder envelope for guests to encourage them to leave money for the housekeeper. ..Envelopes that contain the name of the person (usually […]

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Hurricane Odile flogs tourists with rain in Mexico's Baja California

Hurricane Odile made landfall at the southernmost tip of Mexico's Baja California peninsula late Sunday. Its gales whipped torrents of rain ashore, chasing visitors in popular tourist destinations into closed quarters.

from CNN.com - Travel http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/15/world/americas/hurricane-odile/index.html

5 overlooked world treasures

Even veteran travelers haven't always seen all the world's treasures. Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler and Global Heritage Fund head Vince Michael picked these five hidden gems especially for CNN.com.

from CNN.com - Travel http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/15/travel/lonely-planet-founder-hidden-gems/index.html

Famous hotel's 30-year-old secret

One of America' most famous hotels kept a unique secret for three decades. CNN's Richard Quest visits the Greenbrier.

from CNN.com - Travel http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/international/2014/09/12/spc-business-traveller-art-hotels-b.cnn.html

Curse continues! Giant rabbit goes up in flames

Artist Florentijn Hofman's larger-than-life Moon Rabbit installation burns to the ground in Taiwan.

from CNN.com - Travel http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/15/travel/giant-rabbit-burns/index.html

Making wine in a warzone

Step inside the surreal world of wine-making in the Golan Heights. While richly-colored grapes ripen in the sun, a few fields away civil war rages.

from CNN.com - Travel http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/14/business/golan-heights-making-wine/index.html

Lessons from the Journey: Unhappiness Can Lead to New Beginnings

“To the discontented man no chair is easy.” -Benjamin Franklin From my own 193-country journey to the stories of many other people who were kindly willing to share, The Happiness of Pursuit attempts to extract and convey the lessons of modern-day quests. This series explores some of these lessons. Lesson: Unhappiness can lead to new…



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Growth, sale, IPOs – TUI mulls future of online and specialist divisions

Europe’s tour operating behemoth TUI Travel will run its online and specialist businesses separately to give a clearer idea of what to ...



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8 reasons Indians are the coolest

India has over 1.2 billion people, so there’s a LOT of diversity. No matter when you visit, you'll come across at least one festival.



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Review: Hotel Des Indes The Hague

On one hand vacationing in The Hague (or Den Haag, if you prefer) seemed kind of random to me at first. However:

-- I had some friends that recently visited and really enjoyed it

-- There's a Starwood Luxury Collection property there which gets great reviews

-- It's only a 30 minute train ride from Amsterdam Airport, so is a really easy side trip in conjunction with a visit to Amsterdam

In theory I love Starwood's Luxury Collection properties. I love hotel points, elite status, and the consistency which hotel chains offer, however don't really like the cookie cutter hotels. That's the benefit of Starwood's Luxury Collection, as they're all unique properties. They make you feel like you're not staying at a chain hotel in terms of the design, though you still get consistent elite benefits.

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Sabre plots hospitality growth – tuck-ins, geographic and customer expansion

Just days before Sabre announced its acquisition of Genares, chief executive Tom Klein was speaking at the Deutsche Bank 2014 Technology Conference. ...



from Tnooz http://www.tnooz.com/article/sabre-plans-hospitality-growth/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sabre-3

How to Get Your Bank to Pay You When Your Flight is Delayed or Luggage Gets Lost

Yesterday I got (multiple, cough) e-mails from Citibank about new benefits for their American Airlines co-brand products. With an email subject line like “Important Information About Your Protection Benefits” I assumed they’d be taking away benefits so Citi really needs to get better e-mail subject writers. In fact with a subject line like that, I’d […]

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#MatUTalks Twitter chat: Sep 18

Join the conversation on the phenomenon of voluntourism, and get a chance to win a copy of Daniel Baylis's "The Traveller."



from Matador NetworkMatador Network http://matadornetwork.com/pulse/matutalks-twitter-chat-voluntourism-sep-18/

10 Interesting and Helpful Travel Websites

Every day, a dozen new travel websites start up in hopes of making your trip planning easier, help you meet locals, crowdsource your advice, or save money. And with equal speed as many travel websites fail each day. A lot of travel start ups try to fill a void where none exists. There are just some things that people don’t want, need, or desire. There many are with innovative ideas but are poorly executed and end up floundering. Then there […]

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Next wave: 24 technology companies which are changing the future

SYSTEMS: It is very easy to get sucked into a travel industry bubble when it comes to where technology is perhaps heading ...



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