Lots of luck catching another flight if you’ve been bumped or miss a connection. Commercial airlines in the U.S. have never been so full. Seven of them-Delta, American, United, Continental, US Airways, AirTran and Alaska-reported filling at least 87% of their seats in July. Even Southwest, always the industry’s laggard in load factor, beat the [...]

Thank you for visiting www.travelkeynote.com . Over the course of the last several months we have experienced a tremendous increase in visitors to our Blog. As a result, we elected to move our Blog to a server with much larger capacity and bandwidth. During this transition, our site was down for several days.  To all our loyal readers [...]

Cystal Cruises has put two new Pacific Coast cruises on its 2011 calendar, replacing two Mexican Riviera itineraries. The two new cruises, departing April 10 and 17, sail between Los Angeles and Vancouver on the Crystal Symphony and visit Santa Barbara and San Francisco, Calif.; Seattle; Astoria, Ore.; and Victoria, British Columbia. Crystal is the [...]

In its 34th session, where it named new locations to the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites, the World Heritage Committee has removed the Galapagos Islands from its list of endangered sites, following Brazil‘s request for the committee’s appraisal. Inscribed in 2007 for the threats to the archipelago’s eco-system, the committee recognized Ecuador‘s efforts to [...]

U.S. travelers are using their smart phones for navigation, GPS functionality and to compare or even book travel, according to a new Ypartnership/Harrison Group 2010 Portrait of American Travelers. The survey finds that nearly two in 10 travelers have downloaded a travel-related application to their smart phone. Among those travelers, nearly half (47%) have navigated [...]

PricewaterhouseCoopers says its U.S. lodging forecast shows a lodging recovery that accelerated in the first half of 2010 and will gain further traction during the remainder of 2010, as increasing demand begins to rebalance pricing power. Although the pace of demand growth is expected to moderate during the second half of 2010, PWC said, the [...]

August 19, 2010. Southlake, Texas; The current economic environment can and does have a very large impact on the Travel Industry. From the road warriors to the clients who buy meeting, events, and incentive programs…they all are facing declining revenues and sometimes bulging inventories. In this OP/ED we will examine four key elements which have [...]

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