travel industry

In a somewhat surprising report, The U.N. Environment Programme says one of the most promising green industries -- at least when it comes to creating economic growth, reducing poverty, fueling job creation and addressing major environmental challenges -- turns out to be tourism.

As the ash cloud from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano clears, travel and tourism businesses on both sides of the Atlantic are tallying the cost. Find out how the massive aviation disruption has affected those industries.

Virgin America has cracked the airline growth code in the U.S. Despite a travel market slump that shows almost no signs of recovering and an industry with perpetual financial and operational woes, the start-up carrier has shown that strong financials don't have to be a dream for the embattled...

Online travel agents are holding up through the recession on business and leisure travel. A new report from research firm PhoCusWright and Compete.com, travel websites showed increases in both monthly traffic and sales conversions for the second quarter of 2009 relative to previous...

Employment related to the tourism industry fell 149,000 in the first quarter of 2009, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. The number of people working in this sector declined to 8.35 million. This is the worst drop the travel and tourism industry has sustained since the terror attacks of...

According to the American Automobile Association (AAA), 32.4 million Americans are planning to travel over the Memorial Day weekend. While this represents a 1.5 percent rise over last year's 31.9 million, it is far below the massive 35.3 million who traveled during the holiday weekend in 2007....

With all the gloom in the global economy, I got to wondering whether there is anything else going on in the world of business. I'm looking for growth because I think that's what will ultimately bring the economy out of the doldrums. Not surprisingly, that growth is coming from technology companies....