Travel
Kayak and Skyscanner CEOs: Metasearch Isn’t Dead — It’s Evolving
The test is whether deep live pricing and trust engineering beat horizontal agents on convenience alone.
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Entertainment
Iberseries Takeaways: Woody Allen on His New Film, Los Javis Pact With HBO Max, the Tales of Cachou the Brown Bear and More
When the going gets tough, the tough get going to places like Iberseries & Platino Industria. Its 6th edition, also a pre-Mipcom warm-up, ran over Sept.29-Oct. 2 at Madrid’s Matadero, its rehabilitated orange-red brick former slaughterhouse. That setting seems appropriate. There’s little evidence that Ampere Analysis’ maxim, coined a couple of years ago – a […]
Business
India Now Has a ‘Digital Tourism Stack.’ Can it Fix a Fragmented Market?
India is betting that open digital infrastructure can make its vast, fragmented tourism supply easier to discover, book and eventually surface through AI.
Travel
Hilton Isn’t ‘Blocking’ New AI Agents. But They Can’t Always Get In.
Hilton's CEO says he wants to make booking through AI agents easy. For now, Meta's Muse struggles to pull a price from hotel group sites, and OTAs may remain an easier door.
World
The price Europe pays for keeping AI under control
The European Union (EU) has introduced some of the world's strictest Artificial Intelligence (AI) laws.
Travel
‘The P&L Doesn’t Lie’: Hotels See More AI Costs Than Bottom-Line Gains
Hotel tech investments keep climbing, but profits aren't keeping pace. Can hotels promise that AI will mean no job cuts and a payoff on the P&L at the same time?
Business
Revolut’s Travel Distribution Play Faces a U.S. Test
Revolut’s push into travel distribution was built to keep customers inside its financial ecosystem. Europe gave it a proving ground. Now its U.S. banking push is on track to help it break open a new travel market.
Travel
Airbnb Launches AI Tools, Catching Up to OTA Rivals
Airbnb is not a first-mover in AI launches. That's OK: Kayak wasn't a first-mover in metasearch. The issue isn't necessarily timing, but whether Airbnb can offer AI products that are better than its rivals.
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Travel
The Travel Distribution Funnel Is Coming Apart
AI is fragmenting travel distribution across many starting points instead of simply replacing Google with a new gatekeeper.
Travel
Skift Webinar: When AI Becomes the Travel Agent — How Hotels Get Chosen
Join Skift and industry leaders for a webinar exploring how AI is changing hotel discovery and booking. Learn how travelers are using and trusting AI, why accurate property information matters more than ever, and what hotels can do now to ensure they’re accurately understood, confidently recommended, and easily booked.
Travel
Skift Data + AI Summit Europe: Five Decisions in the Room
AI is changing European travel. The question is who can actually run it at scale when compliance, language, and data sovereignty are built into the operating model.
Travel
Instinct’s App Is Fueled by Travel — Founder Says It’s Half of Volume
Instinct got travel's attention by handling bookings via text message. Now the real question is whether it can turn that volume into revenue — and travel may be the test case.
Travel
How Hotel CEOs Are Really Using AI, From Voice Agents to a Digital Hyatt CEO
Hilton, Hyatt, Accor, Wyndham, and Banyan Group all agree AI should make staff better at their jobs. But they split on how to adopt it.
Travel
Expedia Cuts 58 Roles in Latest Layoff Round
Expedia filed a WARN notice in Washington eliminating 58 jobs, including executive positions and data science roles. The reorganization reached Illinois and Florida too.
Entertainment
Turkish Distributor Baska Sinema Boards AI-Generated Feature ‘A Woman Asleep’ for Theatrical Release (EXCLUSIVE)
Turkish arthouse distributor Baska Sinema has acquired domestic theatrical rights to “A Woman Asleep,” an experimental English-language AI feature directed by pioneering artist and filmmaker Vikki Bardot. Bardot is considered one of the early practitioners of photographic AI art and video art. She delivered a TEDx talk on AI and art in 2023, and her […]
Travel
What Hyatt’s CEO Learned by Owning Hotels — and the Trend He’s Most Excited About
For most of its history, Hyatt owned its own hotels. Its CEO says that experience never left the company.
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Travel
Revolution’s Steve Case and Certares’ Greg O’Hara Are Betting on Scarce Travel Assets
The man who taught America to log on to the internet is going long on the offline world. And the man who is selling Amex GBT in a $6.3 billion deal talks about where he sees his next opportunities.
Travel
Brian Chesky Commits to Launching an AI Agent in 2027
Airbnb has talked for years about becoming an AI concierge. Now Brian Chesky has put a 2027 date on it — and he says the interface won’t look like a typical chatbot.
Travel
Agentic AI Is Raising Travel’s Tech Bill
Amadeus and Spotnana agree the plumbing for AI-powered travel costs more now. The industry still hasn’t settled who pays — or who captures the value.
Travel
The Booking Isn’t the Finish Line: What IHG, Priceline, and McKinsey Say Brands Are Missing
Travel brands have mastered getting consumers to click "book." Few have figured out what to say once travelers start second-guessing that click.