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With AI changing the face of online discovery, many tourist boards and destinations are grappling with how to finesse the message. For Tourism Ireland, this has prompted it to measure how often it is shaping the answers that AI provides.
Every new travel assistant wants to simplify my life, starting with another introduction.
As a new film about Sherpa Tenzing Norgay is released, we visit Pen-Y-Gwryd, the Snowdonia hotel that served as British ‘base camp’ for the 1953 expedition and where the spirit of adventure lives on In the early hours of 2 June 1953, guests at the Pen-Y-Gwryd hotel in the heart of Eryri (Snowdonia) were woken from their sleep by the sound of footsteps running down the corridor outside their rooms. The commotion was followed by gleeful shouting and the sound of champagne corks popping. A late-night telephone call to the hotel’s owner had moments earlier confirmed that Edmund Hillary and Tenzing
The Maldives has always been an easy sell for Indian honeymooners. The opportunity for hotels now is to get these travelers to come back for short family breaks, birthdays, or long weekends.
Both companies are betting that the one-click enrollment capabilities for Delta SkyMiles will boost engagement with business travelers.
Americans and Canadians have stopped traveling like one market. Whether a European destination runs North America from New York or has a team in Toronto, the ones that plan for each market separately stand to take the growth.
Lufthansa gets its gateway to Brazil, but Lisbon still holds the controlling stake – at least for now.
Ten percent back has become a common hotel reward, and what a company can afford to pay depends on what the customer is worth to it after checkout.
Jet fuel prices doubled in 2026, and the question for every airline is who captures the margin that remains. Increasingly, the answer sits with counterparties: manufacturers, unions, premium travelers, airports and the banks behind co-brand cards.
From an infinity pool with sauna in Scotland to a restored Victorian gem in Bristol, here are 10 great spots where you can swim in comfort year-round Portavadie, on the banks of Loch Fyne on the west coast of Scotland, was originally earmarked as an oil rig, but plans fell through. Today it is a marina with holiday homes, a restaurant and bar, a gift shop, and a leisure centre with what is believed to be the biggest heated outdoor infinity pool in Scotland. There are also outdoor spa pools and a sauna, an indoor pool and a gym; treatments such as massages and facials are available. The facilit
Phu Quoc’s peak-season hotel occupancy has surged above 90%, but a massive supply boom will test whether the momentum can last. CBRE says room-night demand must grow about 10% a year through 2030 just to maintain current occupancy — a tougher task after APEC 2027.
A softer timeline gives Adani time to close many gaps. If it doesn’t, summer may bring the same pushback.
Six months of growth sounds like momentum until you check the baseline. Climbing out of an unusually soft 2025 isn’t the same as getting back to normal.
As more of everyday social life has to be deliberately arranged, travel companies are finding a business in doing the organizing for us.
Radisson wants to double its India portfolio to 500 hotels by 2030 without buying anything. Its CEO is betting on partnerships, smaller cities and a pitch that the group is a local company rather than a global one.
From ancient forests to spas, medieval cities and the birthplace of Bauhaus, Thuringia packs a punch for a car-free autumn break It’s early morning in Erfurt, the capital of Germany’s Thuringia region, and Domplatz is abuzz with local growers setting out crates of vegetables and flowers beneath the soaring medieval cathedral towers. This 14th- and 15th-century engineering wonder holds the Gloriosa, the world’s largest medieval free-swinging bell, cast in 1497 and weighing 12 tonnes. Though the city and surrounding landscape are notably flat, its skyline is pierced by soaring church towers and
A smaller inventory, all-suite accommodation and a club designed into the property — Postcard Hotel’s Kapil Chopra says he is sure that enough buyers will pay for it.
The videos are cheap to make. Hotels pay the price in front desk resources and reputation.
The deal has faced months of delays and pushback, coming to represent a thorny issue of how far bankruptcy code should go to protect employee privacy as AI makes rapid advances.
Rising prices are supporting travel revenues, but affordability pressures and uneven demand suggest the industry may be earning more without necessarily welcoming more travelers.
