It's not often a worker at the airport makes you feel good ... and it seems like the party's over for the good people passing through the City of Brotherly Love.
The police ended the fun by arresting nine people this week. They're being called a "prostitution ring," but ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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It's not often a worker at the airport makes you feel good ... and it seems like the party's over for the good people passing through the City of Brotherly Love.
The police ended the fun by arresting nine people this week. They're being called a "prostitution ring," but ...Five signs that the hotel meeting business is recovering
Business meetings are back in style. Group customer is on the rise for the hotel business, signaling that the corporate crowd Is getting back out on the road. Joining the party are other groups, such as associations, sports teams, religious groups, social organizations and ...Win two flights to anywhere bmi flies with a video entry
Update from the field: Mobile boarding passes still don't work
Gadling Labs is on the road this steamy August weekend, bouncing from O'Hare to Houston to Seattle and to Anchorage. It's a good day for flying – there are unusually few thunderstorms barreling through the Midwest, our hangovers are light and the red vinaigrette in ...Daily Pampering: Swarovski crystal-encrusted Hello Kitty bottled water
Remember when you were in third grade, and instead of working on your multiplication tables you furtively traded Hello Kitty puffy stickers for bubble gum-scented Hello Kitty erasers? No? Well, if you missed out on that iconic elementary school experience, fear not, because ...Sting opens organic farm store in Tuscany
Is every little thing he does magic (sorry)? Mother Nature Network announced that Sting and wife Trudie Styler just celebrated the opening of their new farm store, on their 16th century Tuscan estate near Florence. The couple have quietly been producing wine, olive oil, ...Virgin Atlantic unveils new livery
Delta set to expand at JFK, tear down Pan Am terminal
The battle for New York's John F. Kennedy airport continued in earnest this week, as Delta Airlines announced plans to remodel and expand it's currently leased footprint.
With current operations now taking place in both terminal 4 and the former Pan Am Worldport (aka, ...Top five antibiotics to keep in your travel first-aid kit
I'm not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV. But I do make my living off of eating while traveling which, if I have my way, usually entails sampling a lot of street food. That said, I do take precautions, but sometimes the inevitable happens anyway.
Back alley eateries ...Which country loves to work? See who doesn't take vacation time
A friend of mine asked me a few days ago when I last went on vacation – a real one. I struggled to remember the last time I went on a trip and didn't write or, before that, keep up with what was going on at the office. After stopping and focusing, I remembered a ...Five basic facts about the hotel market, especially in New York
Big-city hoteliers will be happier sooner than their small-time counterparts. It looks like demand for rooms in smaller cities is going to take longer to come back, with rate increases unlikely, it seems until next summer. The New York market has already shown a solid ...Pricey tickets hold back leisure, but business travelers getting back on planes
The past two years have been nothing short of severe for the travel business, especially the airlines. Fortunately, it looks like luck is turning. Barney Harford, President and CEO of Orbitz Worldwide, says that the airline sector appears to be on the mend, at least for ...New York to tax travel, the web
New York has been scrambling for tax revenues, and no stone has been left unturned (including my beloved cigars, which are now costing me more than they did a week ago). Well, the Empire State looks like it's now going after my second passion: travel. Visitors who book hotel ...Hilton gives free internet access by status
The elites get free internet access at Hiltons, and the rest can eat cake ... which is how it should be. The hotel company has decided to reward its best customers with this perk, which translates to between $10 and $15 a night in value. To qualify, you need to be gold-level ...Business travelers told to be logical with tickets
In a move that's shocking because it's sensible, corporate travel managers are pushing business travelers to make decisions that aren't stupid. In the past two years, 75 percent of companies in North America have changed their travel policies, with cost-cutting a major ...Los Angeles' L.A. Live luxury complex isn't always alive
Los Angeles' spectacular L.A. Live development, cleverly planted by the city's convention center near the interchange of the 10 and the 110, cost a reported $2.5 billion to construct. Its two marquee hotels, a Ritz-Carlton (123 rooms, opened in April) and a J.W. Marriott ...Top five ways to use social media to look like you're working on vacation
We've put some distance between us and the September 2008 financial crisis, but unemployment – and tension the workplace – is still high. There's plenty of anxiety over whether people appear to be working hard enough, because it's safe to assume that the budgets ...Mobile boarding passes: Fancy trick but not worth your time
By now you've probably heard of mobile boarding passes, the digital version of that slip of paper that identifies you, your flight, your seat and your pertinent itinerary information when flying around the planet. In concept they're pretty slick: when checking in for a ...Customer service slams airlines in overweight passenger policy enforcement
Airline rules for passengers who take up more than one seat are neither new nor surprising. Forget about passenger comfort (the airlines already have, of course), it's a financial issue. A passenger who takes up more than one seat is consuming a scarce resource (in the ...Top five reasons you'll pay more for flights
It looks like flight deals are a thing of the past. The airline sector is starting to recover, as evidenced by an aggregate $1.3 billion in earnings for the six largest U.S. carriers last quarter, and more profits are said to be on the horizon. Of course, we're still in the ...
