With Brevistay, Ixigo closes the last major gap in its travel stack. Its twin bets on AI infrastructure hint at a larger goal of keeping trip planning inside its ecosystem, rather than letting it migrate to ChatGPT. Read more ›
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Raising taxes is easy — actually reducing visitor numbers is the problem Amsterdam hasn't solved. Read more ›
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Connectivity has become a foundational layer of the travel experience. As the smartphone becomes the control point for travel, reliable connection is becoming less about convenience and more about trust. Read more ›
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Travel is the only major industry getting hit from both directions at once: AI search volumes are exploding without converting while total AI token bills internally are rising. Read more ›
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CEO Sébastien Bazin said an Ennismore IPO is "one of four or five" possible fates for the lifestyle joint venture. In M&A-speak, that means Accor's board hasn't decided yet. Read more ›
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The electric and hybrid plane dream is alive, but the funding model that gets it there still needs to be figured out. Read more ›
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First-timers spend more per trip. Repeat visitors spend less. But the math still favors loyalty. Read more ›
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India's two biggest airlines spent the last few years expanding aggressively abroad. IndiGo leased wide-body aircraft for the first time. Air India was looking to rebuild into a world-class global carrier. Both are now in retreat, at least temporarily, from some of those ambitions. Read more ›
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Is Brian Chesky development of a new AI Lab outside of Airbnb an acknowledgement that building AI capabilities within Airbnb hasn't been up to par? Or are some tech developments like AI too large to sit out without having more skin in the game? Read more ›
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World Cup host cities were promised a once-in-a-generation tourism surge. The lift is real, but some cities’ results are well below expectations. Read more ›
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AI can't sell what hotel systems can't see. Until room-level data, guest behavior, and service pricing live in one connected system, the industry's AI gains will stay stuck on the cost efficiency side of the ledger. Read more ›
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Canada's three winter sun standbys — the U.S., Cuba, and Mexico — are all in trouble at the same time. The Caribbean has never had a better opening. Most destinations are not ready to walk through it. Read more ›
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Delta is not hiking fees on its credit cards even as its competitors continue to increase annual fees and roll out premium travel credit cards in an increasingly saturated market. Read more ›
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Every tool is in play. What’s missing is a lasting ceasefire. Read more ›
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The hospitality companies scaling AI fast aren't running better pilots. They've stopped thinking in pilots at all. Read more ›
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The Skift Takeaway SKIFT DATA + AI SUMMIT 2026 How Hotels Stay Visible and Drive Bookings in an AI-First World Nick Slavin, CEO and Co-Founder, Curacity Moderated by Carolyn Kremins, President, Skift THE ARGUMENT In AI search, a hotel either appears or it doesn’t. Slavin cited research showing only 6% of hotels surface in AI […] Read more ›
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The Skift Takeaway SKIFT DATA + AI SUMMIT 2026 Does AI Know Your Hotel Exists? ANIL AGGARWAL, CEO, Milestone Inc. Moderated by Alison McCarthy THE ARGUMENT Most hotels are losing visibility in artificial intelligence search results, not because their content is thin, but because their technical infrastructure blocks AI crawlers before content is ever evaluated. […] Read more ›
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The Skift Takeaway SKIFT DATA AND AI SUMMIT 2026 Building the Booking Layer for an AI-Native Travel World Fahim Khan, SVP of Product, Travelport Moderated by Jeremy Kressman, Vice President, Skift Studio THE ARGUMENT AI has gotten good at inspiration — destinations, itineraries, hotel suggestions. Khan said the harder problem starts the moment a traveler […] Read more ›
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For Skift IDEA Awards Judge Nikita Miller, the real measure of success in travel and technology isn't the sophistication of the AI — it's the human time and judgment it gives back. Read more ›
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