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Hosts and guests both have complaints when it comes to short-term rental review takedowns. For hosts, a single negative review can cost up to hundreds in lost revenue each month.
A new trail in the national park traces the legacy of Welsh industry, while offering some of the UK’s finest riverside and mountain walks The vital moment comes a couple of hours into the walk. I drop down from a tussocky hill towards the village of Y Fron. There’s an abandoned slate-quarrying machine and a grassy track that suddenly emerges on the rim of a deep lake-filled crater. The water is the colour of an old bruise. Around the rim is a fence of lichen-crusty slates like gravestones. It’s a dark, brooding spectacle and totally unexpected. At that moment, I know that whoever designed this
Egypt’s hotel pipeline already matches its new pitch, with nearly 90% of planned rooms upscale or luxury. The harder part to deliver is the rest of a premium trip — the best Nile vessels, guides and transport — which already sell out well in advance.
Paid loyalty is gaining traction in Asia Pacific, where subscriptions are already a habit. Accor is treating its 485,000-member program as a revenue channel, not a discount scheme. The real test is renewals, and those are only now arriving in volume.
A new pact between MGM Resorts and Barry Diller's People Inc. effectively ends merger talks. It's uncertain who else might want to buy an operator whose Las Vegas resorts have been sliding for two years.
Spirit's collapse has given Frontier room to raise fares and attract more passengers – but record revenues have yet to translate into meaningful profits.
Marriott is cutting corporate jobs, not hotel staff, in a global restructuring. Some affected workers may land newly posted roles, it says.
Paying nothing up-front has been one of Airbnb's clearest growth levers. Will Vrbo get the substantial lift that Airbnb got when it introduced Reserve Now, Pay Later last year?
Travel customers switch platforms on price and inventory with little friction, and Luxury Escapes’ CEO builds around that. His bet is a paid membership with a genuine paywall over partner pricing, a moat he expects to matter more as AI agents enter booking.
Agoda gives Booking Holdings a foothold in Meta’s Muse in Singapore and Japan, while Expedia holds the hotel slot in North America. The real question is the economics: if Meta takes a fee, hotels could pay twice for the same booking.
Waymo’s receipts will now flow straight into a spend platform used by more than 70,000 businesses. That should fix a pain point for road warriors, and it’s a signal that Waymo wants a bigger slice of corporate travel.
Is 10 cents per booking enough of a contribution? Well, it's more than Booking.com and Vrbo donate per stay.
AI could give travel consolidators a new way to improve the companies they buy. The question is whether the gains are real, repeatable, and worth the price of admission.
The scramble to patch a security flaw shows just how much smaller players in travel depend on outside vendors to keep their websites safe.
The untamed, magical landscape takes in a vast national park, palatial houses and a sculpture garden and museum stuffed with Van Goghs – all easily accessible by bike One minute I’m cycling through an expansive dusty pink stretch of heathland with sloping sand dunes in the distant horizon, the next I’m winding through a fragrant Scots pine forest as sunlight filters through the branches of red-barked trees to make a kaleidoscope of white shapes on the trail floor ahead. I’m in Hoge Veluwe National Park, a 5,400 hectare (13,000 acre) nature reserve in Gelderland, about an hour and a half from A
Airbnb says the temporary phone numbers are meant to protect privacy. But the change also makes it harder for property managers to turn Airbnb guests into direct bookers.
The parent company of the Best Western family of hotels has decided to rename itself WorldHotels to appeal to a broader range of travelers. Its toughest audience may be its own members.
Scrapping the Philippines’ travel tax would make overseas trips cheaper but strip its tourism infrastructure agency of its main revenue source, with no replacement in the proposed 2027 budget.
Hilton wants to be valued like a technology platform. Owners will judge it by whether lower distribution costs actually reach them.
Royal Caribbean Group wants a bigger slice of travelers’ wallets. Close to half of guests this year are expected to be repeat customers, but executives see room for growth aided by plans to purchase a 50% stake in Sandals Resorts and Beaches Resorts. The cruise operator, which reported better-than-expected third-quarter results and raised its full-year […]
