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March 23, 2011
Barely a week after first floating the idea, lawmakers in the Florida House look ready to back away from plans to deregulate the time-share industry. Language that would have eliminated state oversight of time-share developers has been stripped from a revised version of a mammoth deregulation bill (HB 5005) that’s scheduled to be taken up [...]
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March 19, 2011
Will 2011 be a year of less air travel? Travel companies are already warning of expected issues arising from high oil costs due to the Libyan crisis. Add to this a rise in natural disasters hitting parts of the world that see many tourists, such as Japan and New Zealand, and you have a big [...]
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March 8, 2011
A year ago, amid complaints from vacation-rental home owners in Southwest Florida, the state Legislature passed a law sparing the homes from being forced to install the fire-sprinkler systems required in conventional hotels. This year, the Legislature is poised to go even further: Bills have been filed in both the Florida House of Representatives and [...]
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February 17, 2011
A few years ago I was at the National Tour Association’s “Spring Meet” in Uncasville, Connecticut. Tour operators, suppliers, and destination management companies converged to discuss a number of industry issues. Hot then – and still hot now – is how to turn brands “green” (toward environmental sustainability), capture customer appreciation toward this, and reduce [...]
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February 2, 2011
It was around a year ago when Google started going live with universal search . The goals was to bring all the other specialised search results (from Video, Maps , Images , News , User Reviews, etc.) to the main web search portal.I think it is interesting to analyse some data and live examples, thinking [...]
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January 27, 2011
Amid the anti-regulation fervor gripping the Florida Legislature this spring, the head of the state’s largest hospitality trade group on Wednesday urged lawmakers to speed up licensing, target inspections at select hotels and restaurants, and make liquor licenses easier to obtain. Testifying before the Florida House’s Rulemaking & Regulation Subcommittee, Carol Dover, the president of [...]
