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Willie Walsh arrives at IndiGo with the domestic machine humming and the long-haul plan in pieces.

Travel is not one market. It is a series of fights over who answers the traveler, who gets found, who owns the booking, who controls the inventory, who holds the wallet, and eventually, who remembers the trip.

Fora became travel's newest unicorn, Amazon is pushing deeper into AI travel booking, and earnings season is revealing where the industry is gaining momentum.

Amex GBT and Kayak for Business moved AI booking into managed travel before consumer tools cracked it. The logic: policies, approvals, and audit trails are the preconditions an agent needs to transact. Consumer AI has to guess at all three.

Overstays from the targeted countries are down, but so is demand for tourist visas.

A vague cancellation policy doesn't just confuse attendees. It can drag an event organizer into a dispute.

UK hotels have been excluded from two rounds of government business rates relief. The sector is pushing back, and the numbers show why.

Mexico officials will invest in specialized vessels, offshore barriers and monitoring systems to tackle record-levels of sargassum — but the tourism industry wants more emphasis on environmental solutions. 

Engine is a startup that spent a decade selling hotel rooms to businesses that never hired a travel management company for help. Now it's just bought a TMC, and plans to build the booking software it thinks all business travelers should use.

Accor's 300-hotel target by 2030 was never going to hinge on Treebo alone, but the exit strips out the one partner that gave the joint venture genuine reach into the tier-two and tier-three towns.

AI is pushing hotel discovery earlier in the traveler journey, forcing commercial leaders to rethink who owns visibility, how to measure success, and whether more budget should move upstream before demand reaches traditional booking channels.