Travel policy: Who needs one? Business travel can be an enormous undertaking. In fact, recent data from Certify indicates that the average cost of domestic travel reaches $111.7 billion each year. Additionally, business travelers spend an average of $949 on airline costs, hotel fees, and other...
Finding the best stuff to do is paramount to enjoying your few moments or days away for bleisure travel. You want to feel more comfortable wherever you land, and there’s nothing like food, tourism, and transportation hacks to get you from feeling antsy about your...
At your service At Drury, “The Extras Aren’t Extra!”, as we learned from Drury’s National Account Service Specialists. What does this mean? Drury, a family-owned hotel chain hailing from the Midwest, prides itself on offering the customer the best possible value--including free food and drinks, snacks,...
Editor's Note: We'd like to thank our guest blogger, Vincent Stokes, for writing this insightful contribution about international travel. We seriously want to travel to Asia now, especially now that we know we can do so on a budget. Creative Lodging Solutions is quickly expanding our scope into the...
Remember when we talked about La Quinta a couple years ago? La Quinta's Global Sales Manager, Deb Charleston, mentioned all the upcoming renovations and new properties coming down the pipeline. Well...
When a hotel stay doesn’t quite cut it, maybe you need a corporate apartment to meet your longer-term travel needs. How often do you find that when you have a difficult day at work, your only comfort is knowing that there is a home at...
According to Smith Travel Research, AAA just released a report saying that interest in the National Park System has reached an all-time high. Dubbed “America’s Best Idea" by documentarian Ken Burns, the NPS has skyrocketed in popularity this year; 79% of Americans are visiting or...
5 Reasons Why You (Yes, You!) Should Subscribe to Our Blog Blogs can be really cumbersome reads, especially those trying to tailor to a particular niche. While we understand that we're not perfect, we're NOT boring. We hate overtly promotional blogs, bad design, burned out writers,...
Have you ever been watching a movie and thought to yourself, “I’d LOVE to be where they are!”? Most of us have, which is exactly why the director chose that set in the first place. The hotels that make it into movies usually stun the...
Roamin' Times During the Roman Empire era, the Romans used to build large homes for travelers conducting government business. Our first concept of “hotel” as it exists today stems from that civilization, so it makes sense that the word “hospitality” was derived from the Latin word...