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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Sharjah’s investment arm is betting that global distribution can do for seven retreats what domestic staycation demand already does reliably. Read more ›
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Scapia won’t fight online travel agencies on price. Instead, this travel fintech is betting that everyday spending, loyalty rewards, and payments will determine where the next generation of travelers book trips. Read more ›
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The owner-operator of nearly 330 hotels is betting that its owner-operator model will win in the U.S. market, where other foreign entrants have stumbled. Read more ›
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Delta is betting wealthy customers will pay Delta One prices for a coach-class experience on the ground Read more ›
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Uber owns the transaction, and Google Maps owns the moment before it, and in the first half of 2026, both started using AI to cross into the other's territory. Travel distribution sits directly in the path. Read more ›
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The two companies tout 430 million loyalty members between them. The test is how many actually book. Read more ›
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Hospitality's new operating principle is "cut the middleman, keep the loyalist" — Mews trims staff for AI, Hilton bypasses the GDS to book direct with Navan, and extended-stay brands strip out service costs entirely Read more ›
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The outgoing Air Canada CEO couldn't speak French. His successor speaks that and five more languages. Read more ›
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A U.S. buyer has done what none of EasyJet's past suitors managed: It got the airline's board to the table. Read more ›
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You can only build so many Tajs. Scaling to 700 hotels means following demand and building for India's expanding middle class, where consistency matters as much as luxury, rather than chase the shrinking pool of ultra-premium international arrivals. Read more ›
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The travel industry has owners for issuance, verification, and conversion. The missing layer is readiness, and the traveler owns the failure. Read more ›
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Mews says AI can remove the handoffs that once slowed work and hurt margins. Now it has to prove a leaner structure can bring hotels closer, not leave them with less. Read more ›
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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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