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Saudi Arabia’s tourism ambitions won’t be won by trophy hotels. Marriott’s midscale-heavy deal shows a belief that filling rooms, not adding gold bling, will determine whether the kingdom's tourism development goals succeed.

When online travel agencies can't get permission to access a major airline's flights, particularly its lowest fares, they often engage in a cat-and-mouse game to get them. The outcome can have dire consequences for smaller OTAs, and adversely impact the larger ones, as well.

This flu season is shattering records, but there are still steps you can take to keep your meeting from contributing to the spread.

By hiring Meta’s former generative AI chief as CTO, Airbnb showed that AI is no longer a side project — and underscored online travel’s competition for Big Tech talent.

As building emissions rules tighten and financing remains a challenge, hotel groups may increasingly need in-house expertise to manage carbon data, owners, and compliance.

Kasa's takeover of Mint House creates the largest U.S. manager of apartment hotels after a wave of failures in the U.S. segment.

Dusit had an all-time high of 24 hotel signings last year. Plus, more hotel deal and development news from Asia Pacific.

Airlines that treat punctuality as an operating identity rather than a one-year PR win are turning on-time performance into a durable marketing advantage.

For China's dominant travel platforms, scale is no longer just a competitive advantage, it is a regulatory risk that could reshape how they work with hotels, hosts, and partners.

The music may be the headline of BTS’s comeback tour, but the travel boom is the subtext, and arguably the bigger story.

These fundings reflect a broader trend: For India’s travel startup ecosystem, capital infusion is no longer about scale alone, but about where value is being created in the travel stack.

Skift Asia Forum returns to Bangkok this April, convening senior leaders who are actively making growth, partnership, and transformation decisions across Asia’s travel ecosystem.