Travel in city Nashville

Southwest Airlines is promoting early morning and late night flights with a sale that has big savings on travel before 8 a.m. and after 7 p.m.

Mews, the property management system startup that raised $185 million late last year, is upping its focus on helping hotels implement next-generation personalization and AI. 

The reports about the death of the cool factor at W Hotels has been greatly exaggerated, per leadership at Marriott International.

The holidays have come early this year for Capital One cardholders when the credit card company launched its first-ever travel sale offering up to $200 off flights and hotels around the world.

If you think Nashville is all country music, honky tonks, and unapologetically decadent Southern food, well, you’d be right — but it’s also so much more than that. The Southern city on Tennessee’s Cumberland River is packed with endless attractions including an out-of-this-world nightlife scene (with great karaoke, naturally) and a mouth-watering contemporary dining scene.

Three friends said they went into "manager mode" last week after arriving at a La Quinta hotel in Nashville only to find the front desk was left unattended. 

Harry Houdini performed magic under its marquee. Dick Van Dyke sent belly-aching laughter careening over its velvet seats. B.B. King unleashed the thrill of Lucille’s wailing strings over its orchestra pit. And Robert Plant sent the thunderous echoes of rock n’ roll around the glimmering sconces of its mezzanine.

It’s late summer, when farm stands are bursting with color, piled with fruits and vegetables in the weeks before the season draws to a close. And where better to enjoy a summer harvest — or to try your hand at activities like beekeeping, foraging, even the art of ax-throwing — than at a farm or vineyard hotel?

If you’ve ever planned a bachelorette party, you know the process is a chore. But if Nashville is your destination – get excited. There are lots of good reasons it’s one of the country’s best bachelorette destinations. Step one is finding an awesome themed Airbnb to call home for your wild Nashville party house weekend with the girls — and we’ve done the research for you.

Gone are the days of old-school tour buses and living on the road. Now, pop stars like Taylor Swift are likely to fly straight home after a concert.

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It’s not often that travelers have something to look forward to at Newark Liberty International Airport. The new $2.7 billion Terminal A will open in December, the latest in a series of major airport projects opening around the U.S. this year.

TMC Hospitality has a theory about U.S. travel. It believes that more people are traveling in groups — for reunions, team meetings, and destination weddings — than before. But it also believes that the typical hotel today isn’t aren’t equipped with the amenities addressing these travelers’ needs.

Sales of hotel rooms are booming post-pandemic. But market turmoil will likely put most dealmaking for hotel assets on hiatus for the first half of the year.

Four travel tech startups raised $29 million in venture capital this week. 

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Guesty, the California-based property management software company, acquired vacation rental tech platform StaySense. 

The founders of Urban Cowboy opened their first boutique hotel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in 2014 without a real plan. Little did they know they were starting a minor hotel empire.

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Nashville based Graduate Hotels has unveiled its latest brand campaign, “Generation G,” which aims to ‘celebrate the common threads of the lifelong student experience: curiosity, adventure, and enthusiasm for life.’ 

It’s late summer, when farm stands are bursting with color, piled with fruits and vegetables in the weeks before the season draws to a close. And where better to enjoy a summer harvest — or to try your hand at activities like beekeeping, foraging, even the art of ax-throwing — than at a farm or vineyard hotel?