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Turkish Airlines is dialing back the pace of expansion – shifting toward profitability and network quality while still pursuing its global ambitions ahead of the carrier’s 2033 centenary. Read more ›
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The luxury hotel boom is creating more sameness - Hyatt’s trying to avoid that trap with clear brand lanes for its luxury portfolio. Read more ›
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Tourism faces the costly task of adapting to better weather harsher storms, but much of the global travel industry still lacks the financing and governance needed to prepare. Read more ›
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As war continues in the Middle East develops, Indian airlines are cautiously working to ensure safety of passengers and crew, without ramping up costs. Read more ›
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Regulating short-term rentals is easier on paper than in practice. Indonesia’s biggest challenge may be enforcement, especially when most properties seem likely to fail to meet current licensing requirements. Read more ›
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The ongoing war in the Middle East has led to airspace closures and grounded planes, causing ticket prices to surge on high demand, increased fuel costs and rising insurance premiums. Read more ›
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Mission creep? Nope, Airbnb is intentionally reverting to its pre-pandemic ambitions and expanding beyond homes and even hotels to fill in the "entire trip." Read more ›
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Officials in the organizing committe — and three host countries — have several key issues to resolve before the first ball is kicked. Read more ›
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Travel companies are increasingly using AI to facilitate travelers’ booking experiences, but overuse could end up over-standardizing brands and, crucially, eroding human connection. Read more ›
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Rising temperatures, flooding, and biodiversity loss are not just environmental issues, but could reshape where tourists travel, and when, proving a direct threat to destinations. Read more ›
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Operators brace for a short-term slowdown in tourism and F&B revenue amid blanket cancellations and airspace closures. Read more ›
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In the face of the LLM and agentic threat, Booking Holdings, already the largest travel company on the planet, thinks it can repeatedly grow its top line 8% annually over the "medium term" and earnings per share 15% over the same timespan. And its top line growth forecast for 2026 is even higher. Read more ›
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Expedia has been downsizing its workforce over the last year, and plowing some of the savings into machine learning and AI. It's a playbook that's taking place across industries. Read more ›
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Airlines used to control baggage tracking. Now passengers do. SITA is wiring that shift directly into the industry’s recovery system. Read more ›
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The bad news is that global uncertainty will dent hotel demand. The good news is that Hyatt can reroute guests to properties elsewhere. Read more ›
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Travelers say they aren't ready to let AI book a trip. The industry is spending billions anyway — and no one has answered the most basic question: who pays when AI agents get it wrong? Read more ›
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Canada is in the middle of a quiet travel revolution, and most destinations are treating it like a rounding error. That is getting very expensive, very fast. Read more ›
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As the situation in Iran and the Middle East remains uncertain, Indian airlines have taken on the responsibility for returning stranded passengers. Read more ›
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Can a destination turn a few seconds of interest into a concrete travel plan? Fiji’s AI Travel Planner is an early attempt to answer just that. Read more ›
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Travel’s next growth cycle runs on data infrastructure, applied AI, and commercial precision. The executives building that future are taking the stage at Skift Data + AI Summit. Read more ›
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By folding Adara into Sojern, RateGain is putting both travel-planning data and its ad platform under one roof. The result: a unified company capable of linking booking data directly to the ads that drive them. Read more ›
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Sabre says it has rebuilt its technology and wants to be seen as an AI company. But the market will need to see more evidence that customers are signing on. Read more ›
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Aven is embedding MCP into the core system for thousands of hotels. It’s an early signal of how the newly independent company plans to position its infrastructure for AI-driven discovery. Read more ›
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In today’s lodging industry, any operating function that takes attention away from optimizing the customer experience can become a competitive disadvantage. A new report highlights why lodging tax compliance should be a top priority. Read more ›
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The probe puts hotel benchmarking and revenue data tools back under the regulatory spotlight, testing where market intelligence ends and improper coordination begins. Read more ›
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The moment an AI agent handles the complexity of travel, the intermediation layer will have to answer why it exists — or at least why it commands the margin it does. Read more ›
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