Sometimes, when a traveler asks for help, your best response is to listen.
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Tag: REVENUE
Have hotels taken their fees too far?
How do you know if hotels have gone too far with fees? When Jay Sorensen complains about them.
Sorensen runs a Shorewood, Wis., consulting firm focused on helping travel companies generate money through surcharges and is a self-described “fee advocate.” But on a recent hotel stay in the Azores, he needed his shirts and pants pressed. A hotel clerk assured him that it could be done the same day.
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Amtrak takes a page from airlines, raises luggage fees
Amtrak is raising its luggage fees on Sept. 10, the national rail carrier disclosed on its website today.
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How to be a travel blogger: And now, a few words about money
Editor’s note: This is part four of my series on becoming a successful travel blogger. Here’s the first one, the second one and the third one.
Let’s talk about money.
If you’re going to be a successful travel blogger, you’ll need some to pay your Internet service provider and web designer. You’ll have to pony up cold, hard cash for the equipment I recommended in the second part of this series.
It would be nice to have a little left over to pay the rent, too.
People think you have to take the vow of poverty when you become a travel blogger, or that your “payment” is press trips. Not necessarily.
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Ticketmaster on hidden fees: “We get it” — is the travel industry next?
To get an idea where this nonsense with hidden fees is headed, consider what just happened at Ticketmaster.
The ticket broker, which has been harshly criticized for not featuring an “all-in” price for its tickets, announced to the world yesterday that it would rebundle its prices.
“We get it,” wrote Ticketmaster’s CEO, Nathan Hubbard. “You don’t like service fees.”
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