April 14: Top 10 Travel Industry Headlines
- Lonely Planet unveils country guide app for iPhone
- TripAdvisor displays reviews and opinions of friends of friends in Facebook
- Travelzoo planning to sell itself: Report
- First quarter air ticket sales by US travel agents – 6% ahead of last year
- REBEL travel corporation launches social profile management solution for hospitality industry
- Global airline capacity grows for 11th consecutive month
- STAJets enters joint venture with Elite Aviation
- Star Alliance to rely on Lufthansa’s global data network for another 5 years
- Room77 adds loyalty points and AAA special rates, senior rates to its search results
- Air India to get $5.3 billion boost, FDI in airlines postponed
On occasion a traveler will venture from one city to another. Is he perplexed What took seconds in Berne might take hours in Fribourg or days in Lucerne. In the time for a leaf to fall in one place a flower could bloom in another. In the duration of a thunderclap in one place two people could fall in love in another. In the time that a boy grows into a man a drop of rain might slide down a windowpane yet the traveler is unaware of these discrepancies…If the pace of human desires stay proportionally the same with the motion of waves on a pond how could the traveler know that something has changed