Categories: OLD Media Moves

Bloomberg Businessweek releases special travel issue

Bloomberg Businessweek, which last year had a sports business special edition, will release a travel special issue this weekend.

The issue will include articles about the business traveler, how a Lufthansa flight between San Francisco to Bangalore, India, has been sold out for 11 consecutive years, conventions in Las Vegas, preferred customer programs and concierge services.

It also ranks, among others, the best jet lag remedy, airport food court, airport club, in-flight entrée, first-class seat, hotel pool and hotel gym.

The sports business issue was issued in October and included 37 pages of special content in addition to the sports business content.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.