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Airlines

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American Taps Starlink for Wi-Fi on More Than 500 Aircraft

American is among the last of the largest U.S. carriers to announce an upgrade to its in-flight Wi-Fi. The deal is also a major get for Starlink, which accounts for the vast majority of SpaceX’s profits.

May 26th, 2026 at 11:52 AM EDT

A Ryanair Boeing 737 taking off.

Ryanair Just Cleared Its Debt: Where Do Other Major Airlines Stand?

O'Leary and team now have one of the cleanest balance sheets in commercial aviation – the timing, with fuel costs hammering rivals, could hardly be better.

May 26th, 2026 at 10:47 AM EDT

$11.4 Billion and Zero Churn: What SpaceX Said About Starlink’s Travel Industry Grip

The competitors to Musk's Starlink will eventually up their game. It's never healthy for customers and end-users to be dependent on a single vendor, regardless of the Starlink's competitive advantage at this moment.

May 26th, 2026 at 9:11 AM EDT

Business Travel

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Amex GBT’s 12-Year Ownership Saga — Who Won and Lost

A $6.3 billion take-private closes the books on one of the most convoluted cap tables in travel. The scorecard is not what you’d expect.

May 4th, 2026 at 12:34 PM EDT

Paul Abbott, CEO of American Express Global Business Travel

Amex GBT to Be Acquired by General Catalyst-Backed Long Lake for $6.3 Billion

American Express Global Business Travel is going private with backing from major AI and tech investors. Despite a travel-tech experienced backer in General Catalyst, Long Lake will have to prove its mettle.

May 4th, 2026 at 8:25 AM EDT

Navan’s Post-IPO Reality: CEO Defends Strategy — Exclusive

Navan, an AI-first travel management company, is growing fast and spending faster. Some investors want to know when the math starts working.

April 15th, 2026 at 3:10 PM EDT

Coronavirus

Paris tourists outside of shops selling trinkets.

The Travel Industry’s Immense Potential for Growth

Despite the pandemic’s unprecedented challenges, the travel industry’s recovery is proving to be remarkable.

August 3rd, 2023 at 6:49 PM EDT

Tourists near St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy.

The Travel Industry Surpasses 2019

Today's edition of Skift's daily podcast looks closer at the recovery of the travel industry that have allowed it to surpass spring 2019 benchmarks.

May 26th, 2023 at 2:44 AM EDT

Tourists taking photos on the roof of Milan’s cathedral

Travel Makes a Complete Recovery

Today's edition of Skift's daily podcast looks closer at travel's coronavirus recovery, Airbnb's optimism, and Hilton's extended-stay moves.

May 24th, 2023 at 5:27 AM EDT

Cruises

The Alaska Experiment That Could Reshape How Cruise Lines Navigate Wildlife

Alaska’s reputation as a bucket list cruise destination rests largely on its wildlife encounters, especially whale sightings. MSC Cruises is treating its first season in the region as a research opportunity, exploring how marine science can guide operations in high-density wildlife corridors.

May 26th, 2026 at 10:40 AM EDT

A Carnival ship

Iran War Costs Have Hit Travel’s Profit Forecasts

The Iran war didn't just raise fuel costs — it upended many travel company's business plans for 2026.

May 8th, 2026 at 11:39 AM EDT

NCL cruise

Norwegian Cruise Line Slashes Profit Outlook as Fuel Costs Mount

Norwegian posted some very encouraging numbers during this first quarter but the rest of 2026 could be challenging.

May 4th, 2026 at 3:01 PM EDT

Experiences

Abu Dhabi’s Sphere Has a Home: Yas Island

The location was the easy part. Whether Abu Dhabi can fill a $1.7 billion venue with its own original content is the harder question.

May 14th, 2026 at 8:30 AM EDT

HBX Group to Buy Bridgify as Part of Broader AI Push

HBX has been trying to diversify from reselling hotel rooms since before it went public. Each time, the answer is new inventory and better tech for selling. Experiences and AI are the latest pitch.

May 13th, 2026 at 11:32 AM EDT

A Tiqets company sign

Expedia Spent $279 Million on Acquisitions in Q1, Airbnb Gained $70 Million on Tiqets Deal: Scoop

Expedia was the company that acquired Tiqets. Airbnb didn't buy the experiences brand, but seems to have made a solid return on its Tiqets investment when it cashed out.

May 9th, 2026 at 3:29 PM EDT

Food and Drink

Food tourism

Omakase, Fine Casual… and Burgers: Marriott’s Top Food Trends in Asia

Asia’s food culture, from hawker stalls to omakase counters, has always been vibrant. But it’s now also setting the pace for how food tourism might look globally in the years ahead.

October 14th, 2025 at 4:00 AM EDT

How Tourism Homogenizes Cuisines and What Are Possible Solutions

There is a lot that can be done, both from an awareness and, even more importantly, from a policy perspective. Most of it requires changes that the travelers of today, seeking more authentic experiences, would welcome.

December 12th, 2024 at 7:58 AM EST

Magic Mushrooms in the Minibar

Some will always love a luxury spa. But psychedelics (think psilocybin soundbaths and mushrooms) are the phase in high-end wellness.

December 10th, 2024 at 12:01 PM EST

Ground Transport

Grab

Grab Takes Taxis Across the Singapore-Malaysia Border

“Travel companion” Grab clearly isn’t ready to say goodbye at the border. With its cross-border taxi pilot, Grab is stretching the definition of “last mile” into an international one, keeping travelers in-app the entire way.

May 5th, 2026 at 7:46 AM EDT

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Uber CEO Says Travel Rivals Like Expedia Can’t Match Its On-the-Ground Edge

Khosrowshahi said there's the usual tension with partners about Uber's travel ambitions, and he obliquely cited Expedia's shortcomings post-booking. If Uber gains traction in travel, you can expect Khosrowshahi to one day step away from the Expedia board, and all of those conflicts to get exacerbated.

May 4th, 2026 at 4:55 PM EDT

Airbnb’s Latest Service Expansion: Rides From the Airport

Pre-booking rides to your Airbnb or hotel may ease the journey when arriving in an unfamiliar destinations, but there doesn't seem to be anything Airbnb-ish about the new service partnership. Maybe Airbnb gets less unique as it grows?

March 31st, 2026 at 5:00 AM EDT

Hotels

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Room Mate Hotels CEO on the Loyalty Gap Squeezing Boutique Brands

Boutique brands love to talk about authenticity and consistency. Surviving the majors’ loyalty programs is a different conversation.

May 26th, 2026 at 6:00 AM EDT

Dubai Mall and the Burj Khalifa.

Dubai’s $400M in Tourism Aid Buys Time. Operators See Empty Rooms.

With occupancy at 10% and summer ahead, fee exemptions may matter less than empty rooms.

May 22nd, 2026 at 10:30 AM EDT

Executive speaking on stage

Choice Hotels’ Interim CEO: What We Know About Dominic Dragisich

Dominic Dragisich knows Choice Hotels’ numbers, brands, and growth strategy as well as anyone. The question is whether knowing the playbook is the same as writing a new one.

May 21st, 2026 at 11:08 AM EDT

Luxury

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Capella’s New President Wants to Crack Luxury’s Top Tier Within a Year

Capella’s pitch under its new president: scarce, personalized, and aiming for the top tier of ultra-luxury. The growth job goes to Patina.

May 21st, 2026 at 6:00 AM EDT

Chicago Four Seasons

Luxury Brands Have Been Marketing to Humans. But Their Next Booking May Be AI.

Luxury brands have spent two decades optimizing for the human eye. A meaningful share of their traffic will soon belong to something else entirely.

May 1st, 2026 at 4:52 PM EDT

Inside the $2.4 Billion Agency Powering Luxury Travel’s Elite Advisors

For years, Global Travel Collection's $2.4 billion in sales has been spread across legacy brands, masking its true scale. Its brand unification is a signal that scale is becoming the defining competitive advantage in luxury travel.

April 23rd, 2026 at 8:30 AM EDT

Media and PR

EternityX CEO Charlene Ree at Skift Asia Forum 2026

Demographic segmentation of Chinese outbound travelers is the wrong unit of analysis.

April 29th, 2026 at 3:39 PM EDT

How TV and AI Are Reshaping Travel Demand

If travel demand is being shaped by entertainment and filtered through AI, what role do travel brands actually play in influencing decisions?

April 24th, 2026 at 6:03 AM EDT

Authorities Around the World Are Banning Flight Ads Due To Climate. But Will It Change Anything?

The bans may not ground a single flight, but they are opening the door to harder policy conversations.

April 17th, 2026 at 1:08 PM EDT

Meetings

5 Ways Meeting in Ireland Balances the Best of Both Worlds

All too often, choosing a destination for incentive travel forces meeting planners to prioritize either a busy city or rural country, business or wellness, modern developments or rich cultural experiences. Here’s how planners get to have it all on the island of Ireland.

December 15th, 2025 at 9:43 AM EST

3 Ways Corporate Meetings in New Orleans Can Fuel Creativity

Beyond the everyday challenges of organizing memorable events that move the needle for companies, today's planners are under mounting pressure to inspire a burned-out workforce. New Orleans combines its rich history, deep culture, and modern innovation to host corporate experiences that spark creativity and foster connection.

December 11th, 2025 at 9:19 AM EST

Visitors at the Yashobhoomi convention and exhibition centre in New Delhi.

Inside India’s Events and Meetings Aspirations

India upped its convention center game for the G20 Summit last year. Now, it is trying to drum up the marketing for these spaces across the country. But is India really MICE ready?

May 27th, 2025 at 11:00 PM EDT

Online Travel

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Yatra’s Next Growth Bet: Digitizing India’s Corporate Travel Market

Yatra Online reported what Chairman Dhruv Shringi called the “most profitable year in the company’s 20-year history,” even as India-Pakistan conflict, the Air India crash and travel disruptions across parts…

May 25th, 2026 at 7:40 AM EDT

B2A? AI Agents Are Travel’s New Audience — And They Don’t Care About Brands

Brand recognition, a cognitive shortcut for human buying decisions, means nothing to AI agents that can reason through every option every time. That's shifting travel's entire marketing apparatus.

May 22nd, 2026 at 2:06 PM EDT

A woman in a red leather jacket standing on a stage and the words Expedia Explore are in the background.

Expedia CEO Ariane Gorin: The B2B-B2C ‘Flywheel’ and AI’s Impact on How We Build

Gorin thinks Expedia's consumer businesses are vital cogs in the machine. But can she jumpstart their growth?

May 22nd, 2026 at 9:03 AM EDT

Podcasts

Airbnb Is Becoming a Real OTA

Airbnb's summer release made one thing unmistakable: the company is no longer content selling just stays and quirky local experiences, and its expansion into rental cars, grocery delivery, mainstream landmark tours, and a bigger hotels push puts it on a direct collision course with

May 22nd, 2026 at 6:33 AM EDT

Gulf Travelers Are Searching but Not Booking, and Brand USA Wants Canadians Back

Gulf travelers are flooding search engines but holding off on bookings as the Iran war reshapes travel demand, Brand USA launches a charm offensive to win back Canadian visitors, and…

May 22nd, 2026 at 5:36 AM EDT

The Cold DM That Sparked a Real Estate Movement

On this episode of Suite Success, host Katie Cline sits down with Grace Gudenkauf and Amelia McGee, co-founders of WIIRE (Women Invest in Real Estate), the fast-growing community helping women…

May 20th, 2026 at 7:00 PM EDT

Short-Term Rentals

Houses in Catalonia

Spain’s Top Court Voids National Short-Term Rental Registry

The ruling is a win for Airbnb, but Spain's war on short-term rentals is far from over.

May 22nd, 2026 at 2:44 PM EDT

Airbnb Is Recruiting Creators to Build Out Its Experiences Business

Content creators solve a problem Airbnb has been chasing for years — getting locals to book experiences in their own cities.

May 22nd, 2026 at 12:41 PM EDT

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky speaking with Skift CEO Rafat Ali

Brian Chesky on Boutique Hotels vs. Chains, Taking on Expedia and Booking, and Where Airbnb Has Stumbled

Chesky is moving fast on services, creators, and boutique hotels, and is also willing to say out loud where Airbnb has been "asleep at the wheel."

May 21st, 2026 at 2:50 PM EDT

Skift Originals

The Lessons Travel Buried After Covid Are Resurfacing in the Middle East

The travel industry edited Covid into a convenient story about resilient demand while ignoring the system’s fragility. We’re seeing the cost of that rewrite in real time.

March 16th, 2026 at 1:02 PM EDT

Building in Travel Has Never Mattered More

Travel is where history gets physical. We're in it. Right where we should be.

January 4th, 2026 at 12:37 PM EST

Legacy Is When Your Ideas Outlive Their Attribution: The Skift Journey

Skift is an extended argument for a particular way of being in the world: intellectually rigorous, commercially viable, editorially independent, globally aware, personally authentic.

December 2nd, 2025 at 9:50 AM EST

Startups

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Fora Travel Is Focused on Growth and a Small Acquisition Helps Build AI Tools

Fora Travel has the luxury of being private and can build its business — seemingly at a decent pace — without getting second-guessed in quarterly earnings calls.

April 21st, 2026 at 9:18 AM EDT

The Hosteller property in Chakrata, Uttarakhand.

India’s Travel Space Heats Up as Niche Players Gain Significance

India’s maturing travel market is allowing for more niche players to strengthen their bases, and it seems like investors are backing this movement.

April 20th, 2026 at 9:18 AM EDT

Webook

What a Siberian Startup and a Saudi Ticketing App Reveal About Travel’s Future

Two startups from two different worlds are quietly rewriting the rules of who controls the travel transaction, with fascinating implications.

February 11th, 2026 at 9:42 AM EST

Tour Operators

UAE’s AI Push Could Reshape How Hotels and Holiday Homes Operate

The biggest win for the hospitality sector will be the elimination of manual licensing and compliance checks that quietly drain operator time and margin.

April 30th, 2026 at 9:40 AM EDT

TUI office

TUI Downgrades Outlook, Reports Softer Bookings From Iran War

TUI went from reporting record EBIT to suspending revenue guidance as conflict in the Middle East disrupts travel plans.

April 22nd, 2026 at 12:42 PM EDT

Intrepid Travel CEO James Thornton at the Skift Global Forum in New York.

Intrepid Buys French Tour Operator Altaï — Its Biggest Acquisition Yet: Exclusive

Intrepid’s CEO said the adventure tour operator isn't done with its European expansion plans.

April 21st, 2026 at 1:00 AM EDT

Tourism

Tourism Fiji

Fiji’s Tourism Needs Asia. Why Its CEO Picked China’s Trip.com as a Partner

Fiji earns most of its tourism money from Australia and New Zealand. The Trip.com deal is Fiji's bet on Asia as a backup plan, before someone else claims that space.

May 26th, 2026 at 2:14 AM EDT

Traveler at an airport

U.S. Plans to Scale Back on Collecting All Travelers’ Social Media

The CBP's new social media rules weren't in effect yet, but the proposal made international travelers reconsider the U.S. as a welcoming destination.

May 22nd, 2026 at 3:41 PM EDT

Toronto Islands in Canada

Brand USA Plans New Campaign To Win Back Canadian Travelers

Canadian visitation to the U.S. took a nosedive in 2025, but Brand USA sees plenty of opportunity to convince “movable” Canadian travelers to book their next trip.

May 21st, 2026 at 8:56 AM EDT

Travel Agents

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Dubai Strengthens Passenger Rights Rules to Rebuild Traveler Trust

Dubai’s passenger rights framework means one regulator, one rulebook. The details around enforcement are still to come, though.

May 5th, 2026 at 9:44 AM EDT

Emirates Refreshed Business Class on board the A350

American Express Saw Strong Luxury Spending in Q1, Airline Softness in April

A lot of companies are seeing strength among premium customers and hesitancy at lower rungs, but American Express skews toward the upper echelon.

April 27th, 2026 at 11:59 AM EDT

Shoppers and sellers in a a lively night market in Southeast Asia.

Southeast Asia Travel Operators Hit by Trip Cancellations and Delays

Bookings might bounce back in June. But if fuel costs keep climbing and wallets get tighter, the bigger worry is whether it will erode the spending power that makes Southeast Asians want to travel at all.

March 24th, 2026 at 9:56 AM EDT

Travel Technology

Born in Britain, Owned Elsewhere

The UK keeps producing travel tech companies that leave home before they grow up, and the reasons should worry the stakeholders.

May 26th, 2026 at 7:51 AM EDT

India Is Where the Voice-First Travel App Gets Built

India has the literacy gaps, the linguistic diversity, the voice-first consumer behavior, and now the sovereign AI stack to build voice-first travel. No other large travel market combines all of them at this scale.

May 24th, 2026 at 10:15 AM EDT

Skift Data + AI Summit: Five Tensions in the Room

The conversations happening at the Skift Data + AI Summit go beyond adoption. They will address what happens when ambition meets reality, when speed collides with trust, and when the channels you’ve built your business on start to shift beneath you.

May 22nd, 2026 at 9:17 AM EDT

Venture Capital

Travel Venture Capital Is Back, But Only for the Biggest, Safest Bets: 3 Charts

Early-stage startups face longer fundraising cycles and less capital.

December 22nd, 2025 at 8:04 AM EST

Mokulele Airlines

Regional Air Travel Startups Raise Over $85 Million: Funding Roundup

The biggest airlines are behind on updating their tech systems and operations; regional airlines are even further behind.

June 27th, 2025 at 4:45 PM EDT

Ramp business travel corporate card

Ramp Raises $200 Million for Expense and Biz Travel Management: Startup Funding Roundup

Startups for business travel management and flying taxis are still raising a lot of money.

June 20th, 2025 at 5:29 PM EDT