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Advertisers on Meta are facing rising CPMs and diminishing returns, but travel brands don’t need to watch their ad spend evaporate. Wunderkind’s latest guide reveals how brands can reduce Meta ad waste, improve targeting, and boost ROI through more efficient identification.

Marriott’s flat incentive management fees hint at profit pressures at the property level, but its asset-light model keeps it well positioned to weather economic headwinds.

One of the world's largest event businesses invited preferred hotel partners to meet with its top buyers. But rather than make the experience transactional, it banned sales pitches altogether.

Macau's hotels had 10.9 million guests in the first nine months of the year, reflecting flat year-on-year growth. Plus, more hotel deal news.

They say when the U.S. sneezes, Mexico catches a cold. That’s certainly true for Mexican low-cost carrier Volaris. Its earnings were in poor health throughout the first half of 2025, largely due to U.S. policies on tariffs and immigration. Those symptoms now appear to be fading. Volaris reports that demand recovered in recent months, with continued momentum into the final months of the year. In this week's feature story, we take a deep-dive look at one of the region's most interesting operators and ask what could come next. 

The 124-room ECHO Suites Extended Stay by Wyndham opened in Conyers, Georgia, the brand's 14th property. Plus, more hotel deal and development news.

The super-high end of hospitality has become its own ecosystem — one defined by absurd expectations, staggering personalization, and record-breaking business for those who can play the new game.

Indian and Chinese travelers are rewriting the rules of how travel is discovered, booked, and experienced. For destinations, adapting to these markets means more than translation. It means rethinking payments, safety, personalization, and platform partnerships from the ground up.

By fusing culture with cutting-edge infrastructure and a people-first strategy, Abu Dhabi is trying to set a new regional standard for how to grow tourism sustainably, inclusively, and ambitiously.

Almosafer wants to prove that it can move AI from buzzword to operating system. With widespread internal adoption and regional momentum, the Middle East’s biggest travel company is setting the standard for how AI can scale across every layer of the travel business.

Airline industry leaders are now amping up the pressure on Congress to pass a short-term spending bill to reopen the government as air traffic controllers miss their first paychecks and delays caused by staffing shortages continue to pile up at airports across the U.S.

The AI Guest Review summaries will save travelers lots of time if they accurately reflect review content. The guest photos will add a dose of reality to the search experience.