Tours.com's Travel-Intel Looks at What's Ahead for Airlines and Travel

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - Mar 19, 2012) - Airline passengers are seeing their fair share of challenges these days. And so are the airlines that fly them. The March 15 issue of Travel-Intel looks at recent FAA reports outlining growth in the airline industry over the next three decades in light of streamlining routes, disappearing seats and rising costs... and then asks the tough questions. How much will travelers take? At what price points do passengers begin to say no?

Tours.com's Travel-Intel is a newsletter that goes out twice a month to the travel industry to keep travel agents and travel sellers current on what's happening in the rough and tumble world of travel. Recent issues have looked at code share confusion over baggage fees between airlines that can leave passengers paying more then they planned. It also keeps up with the cruise industry through dynamic interviews with such industry leaders as Azamara's Larry Pimentel and Uniworld's Guy Young.

The March 15 issue of Travel-Intel interviews tourism executives in Japan to find the country back on its feet and expecting to fully recover the visitor numbers it lost after last year's natural disasters and tragedies. Further afield, Bangkok is getting a new luxury hotel with plenty of design appeal. The Siam is opening in June in a location central to the city's top shopping and tourism districts on a spot overlooking the Chao Phraya River. The scoop comes by way of the Kurtz-Ahlers collection of luxury hotels. The Siam opens with generous soft opening rates.

Finally, readers can find out about the best way to travel in style between Singapore and Bangkok and learn about what new ships, new amenities and new itineraries are afloat for many of the popular cruise lines this year.

Travel-Intel is a digital newsletter sent to more than 100,000 permission-subscribed travel agents in the U.S. and Canada. Travel-Intel is then posted on Tours.com for those seeking answers in Tours.com's comprehensive directory of tour companies and travel information.

"We bring our decades of working in the travel industry into the writing of each article on Travel-Intel," says Lark Ellen Gould, content director for Travel-Intel. "This publication is crafted with care and knowing -- knowing what the travel business is about and the history behind the subjects we cover, and knowing the people who are leading the industry into new directions. Travel is changing faster than ever. It takes insight and perspective to keep up and not fall behind, whether about how to travel, where to travel, when or why."

Gould, a veteran travel journalist who has been covering the travel industry for more than 20 years, brings her incisive perspective to the publication and emails it on the 1st and 15^th of each month to more 103,000 travel agents in the U.S. and Canada, before posting the travelzine on Tours.com and Sightseeing.com. Travel-Intel also partners with CanadaScope and Britain Magazine for easy access to added sources of information.

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