Skift

Skift Take: Nobody has built a better travel search tool than Kayak. There, I said it.Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: From Sapporo to Riyadh, airlines are getting bolder with their long-haul route bets and using efficient widebody jets to test markets that may once have seemed too niche.Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: Is Airbnb's partnership with Tripadvisor merely an expansion of Airbnb's partnership with Tripadvisor's res-tech unit Bokun? So far some Airbnb employees aren't seeing signs of a broad, new Viator inventory partnership in the works.Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: India’s global aviation ambitions still run through the Gulf. When that works, it connects Indian travelers to the world. When geopolitics disrupts it, the shock quickly reaches India’s airlines.Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: As AI models increasingly decide who gets recommended, Chris Nassetta's view is that the inputs still hold. Reliability, culture, and a lifetime relationship with the guest keep earning the recommendation, even as who does the recommending has changed.Read the Complete Story On Skift

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Skift Take: Expedia Group is shedding several senior leaders and shifting others around to reshape leadership and work structure. The goal: To help product and technology efforts move faster.Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: Boydell’s departure won’t close the book on Travelodge’s security crisis. An independent review is ongoing and industry-wide safety talks have put the sector on notice.Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: Lindblad is buying out founders, Travelopia is pruning an asset-heavy portfolio, and Intrepid is buying brands to strengthen its ground network. Each of these companies is deciding which parts of the trip it must control.Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: Airbnb's car rental business would be more of a win if it did the hard work to establish direct relationships with the car-rental companies themselves.Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: Expedia is taking its AI recruitment fight to the heart of Silicon Valley, with a new San Jose hub for AI and engineering just a 10-minute drive from the Googleplex. But can it court tech and AI talent away from Big Tech? Here's the pitch.Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: Almosafer’s growth story now runs on domestic demand. That’s a bet on Makkah, the Red Sea, and Qiddiya outlasting a war that hit outbound travel first.Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: The roughly 200 brands across the big hotel groups make more sense as an answer to a quarterly growth metric than to anything travelers asked for. Read the Complete Story On Skift

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Skift Take: In June and July, the United States ushered in visitors from dozens of countries as a World Cup host. It wasn’t enough to put an end to disappointing overseas tourism figures. Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: Minor International is postponing its plan to float a real estate investment trust (REIT) with some of its hotels. A hoped-for Mideast ceasefire might reduce investor worries about inflation and make hotels more attractive as investments.Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: Travelers are more interested in shorter, closer trips. Creators are adjusting their content to match. Read the Complete Story On Skift

Skift Take: Hotel groups and corporate clients burn months every year haggling over room rates that often fail to show up when employees actually book. Accor is leaning on automation to help fix this.Read the Complete Story On Skift