Trip.com Group’s Antitrust Reset Could Change How Hotels Compete on Its Platform
The fine will hit Trip.com Group’s books once. The changes to its China business could last much longer.
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Abu Dhabi Pins Hopes on F1 and Events Calendar to Reverse a 14.2% Drop in Hotel Guests
Abu Dhabi’s recovery runs on domestic demand and the return of a packed events calendar.
Skift Airlines•Deepthi Nair16 Sept
Accor Considers Acquisitions in India After Treebo Deal Falls Apart
With the Treebo deal off, Accor may have to to turn to an acquisition to replace the scale it lost and speed its path to 300 hotels in India.
Skift Airlines•Peden Doma Bhutia16 Sept
Skift Creator Summit: Five Decisions in the Room
Creators now run production studios that drive brand storytelling, customer acquisition, booking behavior, and loyalty. The travel industry knows creators matter. The question is: how should brands build a system around them?
Skift Airlines•Dan Marcec15 Sept
Skift Live Tourism Summit: Five Decisions in the Room
Every destination has live events on its calendar. The open question is whether it builds anything lasting.
Skift Airlines•Jason Clampet15 Sept
The Broken Creator-to-Booking Chain, and Why It Matters Now
The fight in travel's creator economy has shifted. It used to be about attention, now it's about who gets the attribution for the booking.
Skift Airlines•Rafat Ali15 Sept
Barry Sternlicht’s Field & Stream Lodge Adds Two Hotels. Building the Brand Will Take Time.
Field & Stream Lodge launched in 2023. Deals two and three are conversions in Bend and Big Bear, opening in 2028. Starwood Capital and AJ Capital say high capital costs are setting the pace for brand-building.
Skift Airlines•Sean O'Neill15 Sept
Why Human Connection Is Hospitality’s Next Wellness Frontier
As loneliness rises and travelers seek more meaningful time together, hospitality may have a new role to play in wellness. Evermore Orlando Resort is testing whether social connection can be intentionally designed into the guest experience and measured as an outcome of the stay.
Skift Airlines•Evermore Orlando Resort + Skift15 Sept
Lindblad Adds a Luxury Antarctic Brand in Its Latest Founder-Led Deal: Exclusive
White Desert and Echo Charlie will keep their founder-led vision and culture while benefitting from Lindblad's resources and reach.
Skift Airlines•Bailey Schulz15 Sept
GetYourGuide Taps Creators to Write Reviews for Tour Operators
Listings with no reviews can struggle to attract new customers. GetYourGuide is hoping an extensive network of content creators can help.
Skift Airlines•Bailey Schulz15 Sept
UAE Hotels Give Up on Q4, Hope for 2027 Recovery
Hoteliers are getting occupancy back faster than rate — and it’s that gap, not just the war itself, pushing full recovery to 2027.
Skift Airlines•Deepthi Nair15 Sept
Wyndham’s Newest Brand Is a Boutique Spin-Off of Dolce Hotels
Wyndham knows how to scale budget brands across thousands of properties. Dolce Nova requires a different instinct — one built on restraint, design, and a guest it hasn’t historically chased.
Skift Airlines•Luke Martin14 Sept
Booking’s 5 AI Experiments — and Why Agoda’s Is Next
Both Booking and Expedia have the luxury to address consumer-facing AI from multiple angles, including chatbots, specialized agents, and startups. Their approaches overlap, but also have distinct differences.
Skift Airlines•Dennis Schaal14 Sept
Skift Global Forum Preview: Revolution’s Steve Case on Which Friction to Protect From AI
Will this become abundant, or stay scarce? That one question drives how Steve Case invests in the AI era: AI on the abundant, capital on the rest. It leads him somewhere counterintuitive: the industry's real job now is protecting the friction worth keeping. We'll get into it at Skift Global Forum.
Skift Airlines•Kanchi Jain14 Sept
Thailand Tightens Entry Rules to Focus on ‘Quality Tourism’
Thailand's shorter visa-free stays are likely to hit long-haul itineraries harder than short breaks — and the property market harder than hotels. For travel companies, the business impact will depend more on trip length and asset class than visitor volume.
Skift Airlines•Montira Rungjirajittranon14 Sept
New Research: 5 Revenue Moves to Make Amid Market Uncertainty
A new report from Sabre makes the case that leaders who make themselves comfortable with uncertainty will be able to pull ahead in a volatile market. Travel companies across sectors that balance financial discipline with investments in AI and modern retailing will be a step ahead of their competitors.
Skift Airlines•Sabre + Skift14 Sept
Etihad CEO Says ‘Aircraft Is the Constraint’ as China and Africa Drive Growth
Etihad’s turnaround has created a new kind of problem as demand outpaces aircraft availability. With China and Africa next, the Abu Dhabi carrier now needs planes to match its ambitions
Skift Airlines•Peden Doma Bhutia14 Sept
AirBaltic Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection as Financial Pressures Mount
Passengers probably won’t notice AirBaltic’s bankruptcy filing. Its creditors, lessors and shareholders certainly will.
Skift Airlines•Gordon Smith14 Sept
India’s Domestic Tourism Boom May Be Its Biggest Inbound Problem
India has too many domestic tourists, not enough foreign ones. Add to that the country is becoming more expensive and crowded while its international marketing muscle has shrunk dramatically.
Skift Airlines•Peden Doma Bhutia14 Sept
Live Tourism’s Biggest Operators Are Confirmed. Are You in the Room?
The people who decide where live demand lands, who captures it, and how it gets sold are speaking in one closed room in New York on September 22. The tourism authority that turned Las Vegas into standing economic infrastructure is on the agenda. So is Live Nation, the company routing where the next live moment […]
Skift Airlines•Kanchi Jain13 Sept