by Charlie Leocha | Mar 6, 2010
Floating Architecture Docks in Shanghai Shanghai is betting that the cruise ship business in Asia will continue to expand in the future as it has in the recent past increasing 900 percent in four years. Some are betting that Shanghai has overcommitted to the coming...
by Charlie Leocha | Mar 5, 2010
This is the first in a series of articles about my work for travelers through the Consumer Travel Alliance (CTA). This organization is a tax-exempt non-profit, so any donations are fully tax deductible. We have been working in Washington, DC, for about a year now and...
by Charlie Leocha | Mar 3, 2010
Last summer, Joe Sharkey, writing in his blog, noted that some flight attendants were enforcing a new-to-him rule that nothing could be placed in seat pockets during take-off and landing except airline magazines and emergency instructions. The airline crack-down was...
by Charlie Leocha | Mar 3, 2010
Congress after years of lobbying by the travel and tourism community across the country, has finally begun to realize the positive impact of tourism dollars on our economy. Every visitor brings, literally, hundreds of dollars a day into the economic stream through...
by Charlie Leocha | Mar 2, 2010
In these days of airline union unrest in the headlines, this look at the underpinnings of Southwest Airline’s flight attendants’ union provides an enlightening view of the birth and growth of a successful airline union that has worked together with...
