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Asset-light growth can help hotel companies scale faster, but owners still carry the capital risk. Operators with skin in the game may be better positioned to test ideas, challenge investment assumptions, and focus on long-term hotel value.
Dubai’s luxury hotels face a choice between protecting rates and filling rooms. Value-adds let them do some of both. The question is how long their 2025 buffers will last.
Four years after Flyr bought its way into hotels, it's handing the unit to one of the two rivals Skift said it would have to beat.
After electronics giant Philips left, the city reinvented itself as a multicultural hub for creativity and innovation, and the home of Dutch Design Week A baggily clad skateboarder’s wheels clatter across concrete floors, the noise bouncing off exposed pipes and iron girders. Vaulted skylights set in high ceilings illuminate the industrial space and its central kitchen, from which my main course – a silky lemon risotto, spiked with samphire, rhubarb, garlic, baby onions and basil – has just been transported. I’m in the Dutch city of Eindhoven, in North Brabant, famous for its historic connecti
Lower priced tickets can help build loyal visitors while premium add-ons drive more spending at the parks.
Travel's commerce layers are merging into one system, and control of that system will set margins for the next decade. We're bringing the operators making those calls together at Skift Commerce Summit this November.
Amex GBT may be a software, payments and meetings company for business travel, but it’s also selling trust — and its chief privacy officer said that’s what it built its AI governance around.
Despite constraints at its biggest hub, competition from Delta, and surging fuel prices, Alaska’s chief commercial officer told Skift that he thinks the carrier can dominate the West Coast with its premium investments and push into international routes.
In order to preserve this enclave on the Great Ocean Road, in Victoria, the required reserves to visit it will be launched on October 16 and from April 2027 we will have to pay a ticket
From a competition perspective, Vrbo is catching up to Booking.com and Airbnb in pushing the fee burden onto hosts. Eliminating or greatly reducing guest fees has great optics, but travelers will end up paying for them in the form of higher rates.
The industry's biggest blind spot may be one of travelers' biggest spending categories. As retail becomes a vehicle for discovery, culture, and connection, it’s becoming harder to treat it as a sideline to the trip.
Travel AI wins when it removes work without removing the parts of travel people actually want to enjoy.
Royal Orchid is betting India’s next hotel winners will follow travelers, not the old hotel map. The test now is making sure its brands don’t end up chasing the same customer under slightly different names.
Wildfires raged through the national park this summer, but much of the landscape remains untouched – and autumn is the perfect time to go In the Cairngorms national park, the bracken is changing from dark green to russet and umber. Birch leaves are lined with gold, while the Scots pines remain proudly green. Autumn is arriving with a little sigh of relief here, after a summer few will forget. The wildfire that began near Glenmore and Abernethy on 15 July burned more than 33 sq km (13 sq miles) of moorland and forest. More than 500 firefighters were involved; homes and businesses were evacuated
The test is whether deep live pricing and trust engineering beat horizontal agents on convenience alone.
Mews has nearly $20 billion flowing through its platform; the opportunity – and harder part – now is to capture more value from the money and operations it already touches.
Navi Mumbai says it has capacity, infrastructure, a transit hotel, a road network to reach the airport. What it needs now is international passengers.
As trips become more fragmented across providers, travelers still expect someone to step up when plans unravel. For travel brands, how they respond to disruption may be becoming as important to loyalty as the rewards they offer when everything goes right.
Airbnb's rekindled push into luxury is its latest revival of initiatives dropped during the pandemic. Among them, Airbnb has expanded its hotels and experiences businesses, and frequently says that it will eventually debut flights.
It seems less really is more. British Airways is removing dozens of seats from its A380s in pursuit of higher-value capacity.
