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Houthi strikes have cut Riyadh off from scheduled flights and pushed the kingdom’s events season into 2027. The longer the closure lasts, the harder it gets for Saudi Arabia to sell itself as a reliable host for business tourism.
Independent hotel brands don’t have to choose between scale and identity. Shared loyalty, distribution, and technology can help them compete with the major global groups while preserving the local character and direct customer relationships that set them apart.
New ASTA and GBTA research suggests companies should evaluate corporate travel in relation to business performance, not simply as a cost line. Mark Meader of ASTA explains how benchmarking, policy flexibility, and travel management can help companies invest more strategically.
Sick of relying on internet recommendations, I left my next destination to chance. Luckily, it led to me discovering a magical hamlet in the Cévennes mountains of south-central France An unruly rabble bursts on to the street: a noisy eruption, bubbling towards us. This isn’t closing time on the Croisette in Cannes. A flock of sheep bustles past our cottage towards the shade of a huge chestnut tree, driven by three generations of herders and their dogs. The waterlike cacophony of their bells slows until only the odd tink tink punctuates the cicadas’ hum. The sheep graze, the shepherds doze off,
Booking.com wants more of India’s travel wallet, not just its hotel bookings. Payments and business travel could help it get there, but local platforms will make that a harder sell.
Despite the higher fuel costs, United is still seeing high travel demand — premium and loyalty revenues were both up 17%.
The transatlantic corridor is seeing durable demand, and companies will have opportunities to gain a competitive advantage by deftly adapting to competing shifts simultaneously.
Service Properties Trust hired Sonesta to operate 68 of the hotels it owns. But an unsolicited offer for those hotels has created uncertainty. Meanwhile, Sonesta has cut corporate staff.
When mega-events land in peak season, success comes not in higher volume, but in earned media and positive sentiment.
In this Good Morning Hospitality bonus episode, Wil Slickers sits down with Sam Shank, co-founder and former CEO of HotelTonight, at Skift Global Forum to discuss how AI agents could reshape online travel distribution. Shank explains why AI-driven booking could challenge the sponsored search model that has fueled major online travel agencies like Booking.com and Expedia, while creating new opportunities for specialized agents and booking infrastructure.
AI discovery is moving closer to transaction. Travel brands must become legible to machines without surrendering the memory, service, and loyalty advantages that set them apart.
Summer heat and drought brought hospitality’s use of water into sharp focus. The industry is betting on simple fixes like aerated showerheads and less laundry — the question is whether more structural but costly measures can scale.
There’s a widespread misconception that travelers looking for sustainable options are rare, earnest eco-seekers. In fact, they’re part of the mainstream, and often pragmatic in their choices.
Agoda has doubled its luxury supply and five-star searches are rising. Until it shows bookings, there’s no hard proof the platform can sell luxury.
Europe’s overtourism fix depends on two systems it doesn’t control: AI search that favors the obvious, and overly complicated transport that discourages the curious from visiting less familiar places.
The first stage of an ambitious new hiking route that will link woodlands across Wales takes walkers into the wild hills above the valleys’ old mining villages Bracken and heather ripple across the plateau. I exhale into the chill autumn air and my breath mists a view that reaches all the way to Gower and the ochre peaks of Bannau Brycheiniog (formerly the Brecon Beacons). Far below, the Ogmore valley’s terrace houses look like tiny constellations but up here on Tarren y Fforch, it’s just me and a few sheep taking springy steps between tufts of bilberries. If this corner of the south Wales val
Governments are updating their travel guidance as protests spread across Europe. The question for travel is whether unrest will continue beyond region's shoulder season.
With some hosts and property managers upset about being unable to renew or convert to subscriptions, Vrbo should be more transparent about why some listings qualify for an exemption while others don't.
Ixigo has the product and a steady stream of customers. What remains is the hard part of convincing budget travelers that the room they book online is the room they’ll get.
Saudi carriers have restored service, but they can’t restore the confidence that international airlines and event organizers need. The longer foreign carriers stay out, the more Riyadh’s events-led Q4 turns into a lost quarter for hotels and for business, sporting and leisure events.
