Hotels are starting to make scents
Smell can evoke memories and hotels are picking up on an olfactory trend by introducing scents to ensnare our loyalty. The Westin hotels are using White Tea to shift mode the moment you step through the doors and help you feel balanced and inspired. In New York the Jade Hotel has identified the smell of classic cocktails, with a whiff of smoky tobacco, wood and leather as a scent to invoke a return visit.

Smart solutions to lost property
Luggagehunters. com has come up with a smart solution for keeping track of laptops, telephones, tablets, keys, passports, phones, etc. Luggage Hunter labels can be attached to belongings and if lost each has an easily retrievable unique code to connect it back to you via a website, assuming people are honest. Available from luggagehunters.com and stockists around the country from €5.95 to €14.95.

Emirates cuts cost of first-class flying
If you ever thought first-class travel was out of your budget, look again. Emirates are selling first class travel on 140 destinations from Dublin via Dubai to celebrate their new second daily service later in the year. First class to Dubai is reduced to €3,159 (normally from €4,339) return and first class to Melbourne to €4,851 return (normally from €5,999). These fares are on sale until February 14th for travel during 2014.

US has 1.1bn hotel rooms per year
Imagine having 1.1 billion hotel rooms to sell in any year. That is the US market where the average daily rate achieved last year was a record $110.35 (€80.78), up 3.9 per cent from 2012. The largest gains in the year are San Francisco, up 9.3 per cent to average $187.79 (€137.45) per night, says the STR hotel benchmarking company. Aer Lingus flies to San Francisco from April 2nd.