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Airlines

Ask Skift: What Are the Biggest Challenges For the Airline Industry?

The airline industry is still facing its share of challenges, and here are some issues keeping executives up at night.

Ask Skift: What Are the Biggest Challenges For the Airline Industry?

Hotels

Brigade Hotel’s IPO Filing Reveals a Changing Indian Market: What We Learned

Brigade Hotel Ventures’ IPO filing offers a deep dive into what’s next for the hotel sector in India. Besides growth, the data points to big shifts in demand and supply across segments while breaking down key trends.

Brigade Hotel’s IPO Filing Reveals a Changing Indian Market: What We Learned

Daily Lodging Report

Vietnam Sees 41% YoY International Visitor Bump This Year

Vietnam’s tourism sector saw a 41% year-over-year increase with over 14.1 million international visitors in the first 10 months of 2024, driven largely by air travel and arrivals from Asian markets.

Airline Weekly

Friendly Skies: 5 Key Takeaways from U.S. Earnings Season

The short story? U.S. airlines without exception say Americans are still eagerly boarding planes and booking vacations.

Friendly Skies: 5 Key Takeaways from U.S. Earnings Season

Daily Lodging Report

Global Hotel Transactions Reach $42 Billion Q3

Global hotel investments are booming, with a 13% RevPAR increase, high cross-border deals, and $42.1B in transactions, driven by strong demand for luxury and select-service hotels.

Online Travel

Expedia-Uber Deal? No Way, Says Barry Diller

Even if Uber-Expedia was the right deal — and that was dubious — it was the wrong time.

Expedia-Uber Deal? No Way, Says Barry Diller

Online Travel

Booking Holdings to Lay Off Employees, Shift Spending Priorities

Was Booking Holdings getting too fat? With operating costs outpacing revenue growth, something had to give. We might not know the exact chess moves for awhile.

Booking Holdings to Lay Off Employees, Shift Spending Priorities

Hotels

The Peninsula Hotels’ New Brand Campaign: Focus on Staff Stories, Not Luxury Cliches

As The Peninsula's head of marketing puts it, "Travel is an incredible thing to do and to experience, and who better to tell that story than the people who make it possible?"

The Peninsula Hotels’ New Brand Campaign: Focus on Staff Stories, Not Luxury Cliches

Tourism

From Coldplay to Bryan Adams: Concerts Driving India’s Travel Plans

Demand for international music events among Indian travelers is not only leading to outbound travel, but is also boosting the domestic music tourism industry.

From Coldplay to Bryan Adams: Concerts Driving India’s Travel Plans

Hotels

Travel + Leisure CEO’s Plan: More Upscale, New Markets and Sports Tourism

Timeshares are basically a real estate product wrapped in a financial product wrapped in a vacation. And Travel + Leisure Co. CEO believes the model has several distinctive advantages over other travel businesses.

Travel + Leisure CEO’s Plan: More Upscale, New Markets and Sports Tourism

Tour Operators

Student Travel Player EF Partners With Thai Tourism on Responsible Travel Effort

It's relatively rare for a destination marketing organization like Thailand's to work with a tour operator to help create and promote more sustainably designed tours.

Student Travel Player EF Partners With Thai Tourism on Responsible Travel Effort