Radisson’s own development numbers are the latest confirmation of a pattern playing out across the Gulf: domestic demand is the hedge, and Saudi Arabia has it, the UAE doesn’t.
After five policy reversals and one outright cancellation, Thailand's six-year-old-tourism fee plan is back at THB 450 — pending, naturally, another round of approvals.
Nobody has built a better travel search tool than Kayak. There, I said it.
From Sapporo to Riyadh, airlines are getting bolder with their long-haul route bets and using efficient widebody jets to test markets that may once have seemed too niche.
Is Airbnb's partnership with Tripadvisor merely an expansion of Airbnb's partnership with Tripadvisor's res-tech unit Bokun? So far some Airbnb employees aren't seeing signs of a broad, new Viator inventory partnership in the works.
India’s global aviation ambitions still run through the Gulf. When that works, it connects Indian travelers to the world. When geopolitics disrupts it, the shock quickly reaches India’s airlines.
Sarah Kopit and Seth Borko break down travel’s AI reckoning: what is paying off, what is still experimental, and why data, trust, and ROI now matter more than AI hype.
On today's Skift Daily Briefing, Sarah Dandashy breaks down why Google's Spirit data purchase is a bargain with enormous AI implications, what the UK's drip pricing crackdown means for travelers and why the U.S. still hasn't figured this out, and why Delta's reliability problems aren't going away before fall.
As AI models increasingly decide who gets recommended, Chris Nassetta's view is that the inputs still hold. Reliability, culture, and a lifetime relationship with the guest keep earning the recommendation, even as who does the recommending has changed.
Expedia Group is shedding several senior leaders and shifting others around to reshape leadership and work structure. The goal: To help product and technology efforts move faster.