When a botched tourism promotion campaign goes viral, it’s not a pretty sight.

We have to start with a budget or forecast before we consider working on our pricing. But how do we forecast accurately. Here some hotel revenue management implementation action steps to help you out.

I’m working on an idea I’ve had for a long time with the working title “Disneyworld as the perfect DMO”.

Plenty of reasons to hate domestic travel in the US - age of the aeroplanes, on board food (or lack of it), the “no way am I going to pay $25 to check this, it will fit in the overhead locker” attitude that has added 25 plus minutes to the boarding process etc.

Tracking organizations say the rate of decreases in international tourism is slowing — or, put another way,  fewer folks are not globetrotting lately, which lends hope these numbers could climb out of the red and into the black in the near future.

On Thursday, at the end of the ‘Future of U.S. Aviation’ Forum, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced the Obama Administration’s plans to create a taskforce which will come up with a plan to nurse the ailing airline industry back to health.