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Meghna Maharishi @ Skift 2 place · 06/26/2026 14:53 EDT

Fewer Flights, Higher Fares, More Travelers: The July 4 Squeeze

Going into what is expected to be a busy July 4 travel season, airlines are cutting capacity as they hope to hold onto their pricing gains. Read more

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Meghna Maharishi @ Skift 3 place · 06/26/2026 13:30 EDT

Delta Makes Moves to Catch Up With United in the Pacific

Delta has spent much of 2026 building up its presence in Asia partly in an attempt to gain more market share in the Pacific from its major rival in the region, United. Read more

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Rafat Ali @ Skift · 06/26/2026 12:10 EDT

One of the Largest Cash Piles in OTA Travel Sits … Largely Stuck

Trip.com’s financials are the clearest single document in travel for understanding what “China risk” actually looks like when it shows up in a balance sheet. Read more

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Deepthi Nair @ Skift · 06/26/2026 10:45 EDT

Dubai’s Rove Hotels Targets Saudi Arabia’s Mid-Scale Gap Before the Events Crunch Hits

Mid-scale supply in Saudi Arabia is structurally short, and the events pipeline — Expo 2030, the 2034 World Cup — will make that shortage acute. Rove is moving early, but it won’t be the only brand doing the math. Read more

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Angie Kirby and Kanchi Jain @ Skift · 06/26/2026 09:35 EDT

Why Trip.com Group’s Edison Chen Says Proximity Is Power in Global Travel

Trip.com Group's Edison Chen has spent over a decade turning culture, events, and AI into travel demand. As a Skift IDEA Awards judge, he is looking for ideas that move beyond static bookings toward experiences travelers want to participate in, and that land deeply in a market rather than simply reaching it. Read more

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Seth Borko and Sarah Kopit @ Skift · 06/26/2026 04:00 EDT

The World Cup’s Most Unexpected Winner: America

The 2026 World Cup was supposed to be a story about soccer. Instead, it became a story about America. Read more

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Adriana Lee @ Skift · 06/25/2026 17:29 EDT

Apple’s Wallet Key Turns Into a Full Trip Pass, With Disney as Launch Partner

Apple is turning Wallet from a place to store hotel keys into a live trip surface. Disney shows how far that could go when a pass starts carrying more of the trip. Read more

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Sean O'Neill @ Skift · 06/25/2026 16:27 EDT

U.S. Hotel Demand Is Rebounding — and It’s No Longer Just a Luxury Story

Ten weeks of data show remarkably strong demand from business and leisure travelers. It's not just a World Cup bump. Read more

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Gordon Smith @ Skift · 06/25/2026 12:25 EDT

IAG’s €1 Billion Loyalty Ambition Depends More on Banks Than Airlines

Is Avios becoming the tail that wags the airline? IAG Loyalty wants to make a billion euros, and many of the levers it's pulling to get there have nothing to do with flying. Read more

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Rafat Ali @ Skift · 06/25/2026 10:20 EDT

What Albania’s Flamingo Revolution Tells Us About Sovereign Capital’s Coastline Problem

The largest tourism-real-estate deals increasingly arrive with a demand for exceptional treatment: special investor status, rewritten protections, consent bypassed. Albania is just the loudest case; the governance failure is the same everywhere. Read more

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Luke Martin @ Skift · 06/25/2026 10:00 EDT

Mexico’s Posadas Had Gone Too Luxury. Its Next Deals Will Even the Split.

Posadas called its own luxury-heavy signings a ‘red flag,’ and is rebalancing as a soft quarter hit its luxury hotels hardest. Read more

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Kanchi Jain and Angie Kirby @ Skift · 06/25/2026 08:30 EDT

Announcing the Skift Transatlantic Summit 2026: Travel in a Fractured World

Skift Transatlantic Summit returns for its second edition this October in Dublin, convening senior travel leaders to examine how geopolitics, shifting demand, and AI are reshaping the world's most valuable travel corridor. Read more

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Peden Doma Bhutia @ Skift · 06/25/2026 06:09 EDT

Trip.com Says China’s Regulatory Crackdown Is Starting to Show Up in Its Numbers

China's regulatory push is no longer just a compliance issue for Trip.com Group. It's now influencing how the company operates, and its near-term financial outlook. Read more

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Peden Doma Bhutia @ Skift · 06/25/2026 04:24 EDT

Trip.com’s 200 Million China Goal Hinges on Near-Doubling Its Inbound Business Every Year

Visa-free access may be bringing visitors to China, but Trip.com believes the real opportunity lies in building the infrastructure — AI, payments and local suppliers — to keep them coming. Read more

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Colin Nagy @ Skift · 06/24/2026 16:31 EDT

What Airbnb Used to Be: Boutique Wants Fewer Homes, More Taste — and No Investment Funds

Marc Blazer is building one of the cleanest anti-Airbnb points of view in travel: real, deeply designed homes for design-literate travelers who want taste, context, and character over inventory. The argument is persuasive. The hard question is whether it survives contact with growth. Read more

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Dennis Schaal @ Skift · 06/24/2026 16:02 EDT

Experience Pure Plays Are Winning, OTAs Are Still Catching Up

Every major OTA — and even most hotels — say experiences are core to their strategies. But 30 years after the first experiences middlemen appeared, it is still a very tough business with the specialists having an edge. Read more

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Bailey Schulz @ Skift · 06/24/2026 14:36 EDT

Heat Wave Hits Some of Europe’s Top Tourist Attractions

Europe faces record-high temperatures just as its peak travel season ramps up. Read more

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Meghna Maharishi @ Skift · 06/24/2026 13:41 EDT

Airline Lobby Backs Ban on Surveillance Pricing — While Insisting No Airline Does It

The airline industry is arguing surveillance pricing is different from dynamic pricing. But as airlines get more sophisticated in their use of AI, the issue isn't going away. Read more

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Darin Graham @ Skift · 06/24/2026 13:32 EDT

London Climate Event on Extreme Heat Canceled Due to Extreme Heat

London and much of the UK are exposed to extreme heat, with buildings designed to retain warmth and little air conditioning. The science says it will only get worse. Read more

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Kanchi Jain and Angie Kirby @ Skift · 06/24/2026 12:29 EDT

IHG’s Chief Product and Technology Officer on What Actually Makes Transformation Work

IHG's Jolie Fleming has led technology transformation across a vast spectrum of industries, and her conclusion is consistent: the technology itself is rarely the hard part. Read more

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