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How the Tourist Became the Taxpayer of Last Resort
Tourist taxes are usually sold as a way to manage crowds. Their deeper appeal is political: They raise money from people who cannot vote against the officials spending it.
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Creator Backlash Hits Travel: From the U.S. Open to Cruise Ships
Cruise lines and live events are giving influencers insider access to reach young audiences. Certain partnerships have sparked backlash from paying guests.
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Ras Al Khaimah Hotels Renovate to Capture the ‘Wynn Effect’
A single resort opening is reshaping how an entire destination's hotels renovate, price and package their rooms — well before its doors open.
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Skift Live Tourism Summit 2026: Building Recurring Demand on the World’s Biggest Stages
Live tourism is much bigger than the events themselves. The industry now has to decide how to organize around it.
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Rotana CEO: Last-Minute Gulf Bookings Make Q4 Hard To Predict
The expected return of international travelers and a busy events calendar give hope for a Q4 recovery.
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Skift Global Forum 2026: Executives Place Long Bets on a Changing Traveler
The most important decisions influencing the future of travel don’t happen in a vacuum. Put the leaders making them in one room, and the overlaps become obvious.
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Faster Dinners, Bigger Ships: How Carnival Is Adjusting to New Passenger Habits
Carnival Cruise Line is sitting out the premium push that's reshaping airlines and hotels, betting instead on drive-to affordability and multigenerational families.
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Tourism tax needs to be more flexible in Wales, warns expert
Anglesey, Conwy and Gwynedd councils have all put a pause on introducing the nightly tourist tax.
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Building Systems That Take Everyone Into Account
Most sustainability commitments in travel measure what travel companies control directly. It's time to measure what they influence.
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Transforming Travel’s Future
The Forum spent two days measuring the value of the traveler. Prince Harry asked whether anyone is measuring the health of the destination.
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Rethinking Impact and Sustainable Frameworks That Scale
Every hospitality company has a sustainability commitment. Most of them sit in a report.
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Intrepid’s Co-Founder Wants Travelers Closer to Home
Intrepid thinks U.S. customers can swap Morocco for New Mexico to bring down flight emissions. The result: a test of whether culture and connection matter more to travelers than distance.
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Who the 2036 Traveler Is, and What It Takes to Serve Them
The mismatch between decision timeline and data timeline can be a strategic blind spot.
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The Expedition Mindset Is the Future of Luxury Travel
For any company investing in premium, the question is whether you’re competing on your product alone or on where you take the guest.
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Skift Research: Travel’s Great Recalibration Index
The brands that don’t stand for something specific will be the first to disappear from the AI-curated shortlist.
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China’s Golden Week Travelers Are Going Farther and Spending Less on Hotels
The good news for travel companies: Chinese travelers have more time to spend abroad this Golden Week. The less-good news for hotels: they have more places to spend it.
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Canada’s Alberta Is Courting Gulf Investment — Not Just Gulf Tourists
The province is chasing investors to build all-season resorts and ranches its current inventory can't offer.
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Thailand Wants 1.5 Million U.S. Tourists — It’s Got a Long Way to Go
Thailand is chasing higher-spending Americans, but arrivals will need to accelerate sharply to hit its 1.5 million target. Expensive flights and growing competition from Japan and Vietnam won't make that any easier.
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Prince Harry Calls on Travel Industry to Put Destinations First
The Duke of Sussex and founder of Travalyst wants the travel industry to prioritize the health and value of the people and places it sells — because business success relies on the longevity of those destinations.
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TUI Trims Earnings Guidance as Airline Segment Lags
TUI has taken the worst-case scenario off the table, but even the top range of 2026 earnings guidance will fall short of 2025.