Chinese OTAs have long offered airport transfers and chauffeur services through third-party partnerships. If completed, Tongcheng's Dida acquisition would make it one of the first to own the ride-sharing marketplace itself, rather than plugging into someone else's. Read more ›
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Hilton and Navan have launched a direct booking connection that skips distribution middlemen, giving the hotel group more control over retailing. It's an early step in a broader corporate travel push to overhaul how road warriors book hotels. Read more ›
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Concerts, festivals, sports and cultural moments are changing where and how the world travels, and the shift is proving durable. Most operators still treat it as a calendar event. The Skift Live Tourism Summit, presented by Live Nation, is the room where they learn to build around it. Read more ›
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Turns out the World Cup’s tourism impact extends beyond the 16 host cities, with outside markets seeing some of the steepest spikes in demand. Read more ›
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Travel apps inside AI chatbots are starting to look like real referral channels. The catch, Skift's testing found: A brand can be connected and still get skipped. Read more ›
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Comporta's magic was scarcity and silence. Sublime's expansion bets it can grow without diluting either. Read more ›
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The PIF is stepping back from direct tourism investment, and private capital is racing into the vacuum — but no two entrants agree on which segment actually has room to grow. Read more ›
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While India's premium travel boom is real, Air India and IndiGo's new entry-level fares reveal that the country's biggest aviation opportunity remains attracting cost-conscious first-time flyers. Read more ›
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Demand is up 6%, occupancy is a fat 77%, and the pipeline is thinning. That may be a textbook setup for pricing power. Read more ›
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Theaters and arenas are becoming year-round brand real estate for airlines targeting premium customers. Whether that presence pays off in bookings, rather than just awareness, remains to be seen. Read more ›
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The island nation draws 1.2 million tourists a year — mostly from Europeans on all-inclusive packages. That won't change overnight, but it may bring awareness to Americans who struggle to place the island nation on a map. Read more ›
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Durable travel tech is forged by hard operating conditions, not venture capital and conference circuits, and Turkey is the proof. Read more ›
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The island nation draws 1.2 million tourists a year — predominantly from Europe, and predominantly on all-inclusive packages. A World Cup run won't change that overnight, but it may bring awareness to Americans who struggle to place the island nation on a map. Read more ›
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Marriott outspent every hotel brand on national TV, yet Airbnb's World Cup ads have out-reached Marriott's so far. Marketers should note that focus, rather than budget, wins marquee experiences. Read more ›
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Whether or not travelers trust AI would almost be irrelevant to OTAs if the LLMs don't trust them enough to surface their inventory for discovery. The contest is on behind-the-scenes battle to become the LLMs' OTA fave. Read more ›
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In an often-stagnant deal environment, Noble has been a prolific buyer, adding 149 properties in the last 18 months, mostly through off-market portfolio deals, with a big bet on extended-stay. Read more ›
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The UAE is running two recovery tracks at once — emergency incentives to plug a war-driven demand hole and multibillion-dollar infrastructure bets. The gap between those timelines is the story. Read more ›
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India's business travel boom gives Booking.com a rare chance to grow two businesses at once — corporate bookings today and leisure loyalty tomorrow. Read more ›
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With a shoppable IShowSpeed video, Expedia is trying to convert creator hype into transactions. Read more ›
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It's the latest move to roll back consumer protections and enforcement measures against airlines. Read more ›
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