Peter Shankman, an American, said he looked forward to free drinks when he flew business class for work. The entrepreneur would have a drink, then a few more, sleep, then land. All was well, he said. Until it wasn't. "Eventually, I realized that I wasn't fine," he said. "I was tired, cranky … [it] wasn't…
Like it or not, it's happening. International visitors are avoiding the United States. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) counts say that crossings of the northern border between the U.S. and Canada fell by 12.5% in February and 18% in March. Travel agency Flight Centre Travel Group Canada reported that business travel from Canada fell…
"The 'Airbnb effect' is crumbling," warned TheStreet.com in 2023, as evidence mounted that homeowners had seen collapses of as much as 47% in key U.S. vacation markets following the end of the post-Covid back-to-travel period. Airbnb's stock value has declined by about a third from its five-year high, and as more cities place curbs on…
I had signed up for an all-day activity, a tour of three cities in France by bus in just 8 hours. The tour was standard shore excursion stuff: on the bus, off the bus, herded like cattle, released into the wilds of the French Riviera to graze on croissants and buy “I Love France” t-shirts. …
If you lived in 18th-century London and something went wrong with your body, after you died a famous scientist named John Hunter might show up to rummage through your corpse, snip out the afflicted organ, and sink it in a jar of preservative so that budding physicians could learn from the specimen. Back in…
Disney's Lightning Lane paid line system has some fatal flaws, and guests are exposing them online. If more people refused to pay for Genie+, the problems would resolve.
Forget creativity, forget "magic" and "dreams," forget Walt's "vision." The Disney brand of our day is built mostly on…