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

The Middle East was the world’s second-fastest growing tourism region in 2025 — and then February 28 happened.

Budget airlines are turning to the Trump administration for aid as high fuel costs threaten their ability to stay in business.

The destinations that will win the next decade are the ones that understand culture is their upstream product, not their marketing asset.

India may be one of aviation’s fastest-growing markets, but access comes with tight regulatory strings attached.

Scott Kirby is using the dead American Airlines merger to pitch a new narrative — but don’t forget, his real audience is in D.C. rather than Dallas.

Geopolitics no longer hovers in the background for travel, it shows up directly in booking numbers. It could be a diplomatic freeze, or a conflict nowhere near your destination. Demand vanishes or, almost worse, reroutes overnight to a competitor destination that was ready to catch it.

Drama, drama, in the air. Drama, drama everywhere. The U.S. airline industry is witnessing dramatic changes indeed. No, United isn’t merging with American. But Southwest is quietly achieving a heroic turnaround, posting Delta-like profit margins. But as Southwest soars, Alaska Airlines is flying in the opposite direction. We take a closer look in this week’s feature story.

The long-term story in Asia Pacific isn't ultra-luxury. It's the expanding middle class, moving up the travel ladder and willing to pay for it.

Boon Sian Chai has watched Trip.com's international business scale across more than 200 countries while keeping its edge hyperlocal. At Skift Asia Forum, he'll make the case for why Asia's travel operators are not catching up to the West — they're running ahead of it.

Google Cloud Next highlighted travel to show that “agentic” AI can collapse trip decisions into a single flow, using the cruise business as the top example.