Kempinski Faces Leadership Upheaval as CEO and Senior Executives Depart: Scoop
Kempinski’s leadership upheaval raises questions about who will carry out its luxury turnaround and how it will be funded.
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Tell us about a great conservation tourism experience
Tell us about a favourite tourism project that supports conservation initiatives – the best tip wins £200 towards a Coolstays break Tourism can be a force for good when done well – and we want to hear about places and projects you’ve discovered that help conserve local ecosystems and cultures. Whether it was a volunteering holiday planting trees in Scotland, a stay at an eco-hotel that helps protect local flora and fauna, or a project breathing life back into abandoned villages, tell about us your experience for the chance to win a holiday voucher. The best tip of the week, chosen by Tom Hall
What Timeshare Can Teach Hospitality About Experience-Led Loyalty: Watch Video
Vacation ownership companies have an advantage in experiential loyalty: They already know their customers over years, not days. At Skift Global Forum, ARDA and Hilton Grand Vacations explained why access, relevance, and owner feedback matter more than simply adding more things to do.
Skift Take Podcast: What It Takes to Put AI Into Production in Travel
AI’s value in travel will come down to execution. As it moves into core workflows, travel companies will need to build the integration and governance required to make AI a dependable part of everyday operations.
What AI Travel Booking Means for Your 2027 Commerce Budget
AI agents still drive a sliver of travel bookings, which makes waiting look prudent. The commercial terms those agents run on are being written this year, and the sellers who sit it out will be priced by someone else’s integration.
The Quiet Rise of Loveholidays on a 20-Year-Old Business Idea
UK’s Loveholidays didn’t invent dynamic packaging — it built its muscle through scale. The big test ahead is whether it can replicate it in Europe.
Airbnb Joins Vrbo and Marriott In Paying Guests When It Rains Too Much
The idea is that paying travelers when rain passes a certain threshold can help increase conversions among those worried about weather spoiling their plans. The question is whether guarantees will spread to other types of weather — like the extreme heat seen in Europe this summer.
A perfect weekend in the Lincolnshire Wolds: wide skies and gentle walks
The landscape of rolling hills and chalk valleys that inspired Tennyson is the perfect setting for an autumnal short break. Here’s where to eat, where to stay and what not to miss Wide skies, gentle footpaths through gold and copper wooded hills, thatched cottages, cosy pubs and quirky shops: the Lincolnshire Wolds have all the ingredients for the perfect autumnal mini break. Victorian poet Alfred Tennyson lived in the village of Somersby for most of his first three decades and the local landscapes echo through his verses. In The Lady of Shalott: “Long fields of barley and of rye / That clothe
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UK’s India Growth Plan Means Getting Travelers Out of London
The UK may not need to win many more Indian travelers so much as encourage the ones it gets already beyond London. With 94% of direct seats landing in the capital, a $2 billion visitor-spend target by 2030 will depend on regional flights and bookable itineraries.
‘We hang on to summer a little longer here’: five of the best places for autumn sun in Europe and Turkey
If you’re looking for a last blast of summer, these sunny resorts offer quiet beaches but enough life to stave off the end-of-season blues A Kalkan sunset is always a beautiful thing – the horseshoe-shaped bay deepening to azure blue against an apricot-rose sky – but, in October, when the light is low and the sun drops early, it’s almost transcendentally lovely. In some Turkish resorts, you’d be sitting watching it surrounded by quiet streets, half-empty bars and that melancholic sense that another season is over. In Kalkan, it still feels like summer; the harbourfront restaurants throng with
Airlines Can’t Upgrade Every Plane – So They’re Upgrading the Menu
New cabins are expensive, complicated, and slow to arrive. Celebrity chefs? A faster way to serve up an upscale experience — and help justify the premium fare.
A Greece for all seasons: my autumn roadtrip through the Peloponnese
An out-of-season journey through the peninsula reveals Byzantine villages, deserted beaches and friendly tavernas As I drove across the causeway which links the tiny fortress island of Monemvasia to the south-eastern coast of the Peloponnese, the Aegean sparkling on all sides, I recalled a line by Yiannis Ritsos, one of Greece’s greatest 20th-century poets. Ritsos lived in Monemvasia, in a house that is today a museum on a cobble-stretch by the tawny castle walls. A favourite passage goes: “The voyage is neither a leave-taking nor a home-coming – an ethereal bridge …” The excuse for my trip to
Western Europe Drives Another Drop in Overseas Travel to the U.S.
Gains from China and South America haven’t been enough to make up for declines in travel from Western Europe.
AI Travel Advice Is Less Personal Than It Seems
For now, AI personalizes the message, but it doesn't personalize the recommendation.
‘A haven of soft light, warm sunshine and sandy beaches’: readers’ favourite autumn escapes
In search of autumn festivals, good food and islands where it still feels like summer? We asked you to recommend your best off-season breaks • Tell us about a spooky spot in the UK – the best tip wins a £200 holiday voucher Last October, while I was cycling around south-west France, near the Spanish border, a tip from a local waiter led me to Collioure, near Perpignan. The town was like a Mediterranean dream, where the summer crowds had faded, leaving behind a peaceful, artistic haven of soft light, warm sunshine, cobbled streets, sandy beaches – and the Pyrenees as a backdrop. In the early ev
Southwest Airlines Overhauls Loyalty Program, Gives First Look of New Lounges
Southwest’s loyalty changes and new lounges make it even more like the rivals it spent decades trying to set itself apart from.
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American Airlines Network Chief Exits
American has largely focused on a domestic network strategy. But the money has been in international.
Is Airbnb’s Dynamic Pricing Launch a Step Toward Becoming a Hotel-Like Franchisor?
In addition to dynamic pricing, Airbnb has floated the idea of adding more products and services for hosts, ranging from design services to financing. The soft franchise model might be more appropriate for individual hosts who don't require multi-platform distribution.
Airlines Can Handle a Crisis – But What About Several at Once?
Black swans are starting to look like pigeons in the park. For airlines, the exceptional is becoming routine – and increasingly expensive.
Easing EU Border Friction: There Will Be ‘Flexibility,’ Official Says
No-one wants long processing delays at the EU border, and there are signs that a further easing of the EU's biometric Entry/Exit System could be applied as needed. It seems a pragmatic move given that long airport queues are still happening.