With the possibility of lounges, Southwest is betting that it can capture more premium customers and boost engagement with its loyalty program. Read more ›
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For an industry that spent 13 years arguing that passenger rights needed to be watered down, it's a rather bumpy landing. Read more ›
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The smartest read of Chesky’s AI lab is that he learned the exact lesson of Meta’s metaverse: if you’re going to make a bet the market will punish, don’t make it where the market can see it. Read more ›
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This is the trade independent hotels keep making: a major hotel group’s reach in exchange for a fee and a fight to stay distinctive. Palisociety thinks the math works. Read more ›
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Dozens of Marriott’s largest hotel owners are pressing the company to share more of the roughly $1 billion it forecasts it may earn this year from co-branded credit cards. A March letter to CEO Anthony Capuano and Chairman David Marriott was signed by 51 owners representing nearly 1,000 Marriott hotels, the Wall Street Journal reported […] Read more ›
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Riyadh Air CEO Tony Douglas has previously said he wants the carrier to have a presence on the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S. Read more ›
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American Express’ pending $700 million acquisition of TheFork, Tripadvisor’s dining reservations platform, could speed up one of its key goals — expanding its global network. Amex said dining is one of the chief avenues for cardholder engagement, and TheFork is the leading restaurant reservations brand in Europe — essentially its OpenTable. TheFork does business with […] Read more ›
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As the brand scales from one Manhattan flagship to a global portfolio, it's hard-coding sleep as its differentiator. Its own answer to whether that travel is more interesting than the question. Read more ›
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Oracle is treating AI as a standard feature of hotel operations software, not a premium product. That raises the stakes for property management rivals trying to sell similar tools as add-ons. Read more ›
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The people behind Radisson's net zero hotel project were worried that electrifying the building would result in higher energy bills. One year on, the costs are roughly the same and the hotel is ready for incoming regulations. Read more ›
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India can build airport capacity fast, but becoming an aviation powerhouse depends on convincing passengers and airlines to adopt secondary airports. Read more ›
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Boutiq’s Rena Pacheco-Theard has managed short-term rentals operations on all levels and has lived the margin pressures. As a Skift IDEA Awards judge, she explores ideas that take in the whole picture. Read more ›
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Premium is evolving beyond a product category to become an entire ecosystem. Instead of chasing each other’s offers and upgrades, travel brands should leverage the premium economy through the lens of customers they already interact with. Read more ›
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Even as Marriott builds a walled garden, it is buying real estate in everyone else's. That hedging action is understandable given that no travel company is yet sure where travelers will actually start their searches. Read more ›
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Why settle for just the airfare when you can own the whole holiday? Read more ›
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Amadeus will publicly introduce two hotel AI tools at HITEC, but its bigger play is infrastructure. As AI agents move closer to travel booking, the GDS wants to help define how hotels are found, priced, changed, and paid for. Read more ›
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The centenary deadline may have slipped, but Şeker's broader point is that Turkish Airlines is now big enough that the number of aircraft it operates matters less than what it does with them. Read more ›
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Hotels have chased non-room revenue for years without consolidating the fragmented tech underneath. This acquisition puts one shopping cart and one shared data foundation ahead of any new feature. Read more ›
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Western Europe makes up more than 35% of the high-spending overseas tourist crowd. Federal data shows they’re continuing to pull back on U.S. travel. Read more ›
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A localized Ebola outbreak is leading to a continent-wide demand slump. The mechanism is well understood and almost nothing has been done about it. Read more ›
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The sale gives Tripadvisor the cash to chase the $1 trillion experiences market through Viator. Read more ›
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