Dave Montali

Family travelers mostly prefer the upper-class hotel range when traveling, yet when it comes to alternative accommodation they are much more open-minded.

While the world is transitioning to mobile, there are still issues to work on when it comes to monetizing mobile search.

Airbnb dropping their NYC lawsuit is the latest move in its rocky relationship. The burden now lies on New York hosts to understand their exposure.

GoEuro and Rome2rio have two totally different approaches to multi-modal, but share the same goal -- to capture the European multi-modal market share. Given the complexity of searching for and booking very diverse forms of transportation, it makes sense for companies in a mobile era to lean toward becoming booking sites.

While travel funding saw a decline compared to last year, investments are still flowing into the industry.

New heavy-content social networks are beloved among the younger generation. Whilst travel's adoption of these networks has been slow, the networks themselves have been in constant growing.

With Snapchat's move towards becoming advertiser-friendly, it may be an opportunity for the travel industry to adapt to the new content-heavy platform.

Visual content creation, curation and distribution presents challenges and opportunities. The best way to deal with the challenges is a consistent, head-on approach to ensure a brand culture that embraces the ins-and-outs of social media engagement and community building.

There are fewer generalist jobs right now, but there's a demand from consumers for specialized knowledge in the field.

Are travel agents being leveraged to serve as teachers for machine learning artificial intelligence? Time will tell.