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Trip.com Group's Edison Chen has spent over a decade turning culture, events, and AI into travel demand. As a Skift IDEA Awards judge, he is looking for ideas that move beyond static bookings toward experiences travelers want to participate in, and that land deeply in a market rather than simply reaching it.

Portman closed on $540 million in financing to build a 700-room Marriott in downtown Cincinnati. Plus, other hotel development news.

Apple is turning Wallet from a place to store hotel keys into a live trip surface. Disney shows how far that could go when a pass starts carrying more of the trip.

Ten weeks of data show remarkably strong demand from business and leisure travelers. It's not just a World Cup bump.

Europe's heatwave is forcing organizers to cancel events and rethink attendee safety in real-time. The question is no longer whether extreme heat will disrupt the events calendar; it's whether the industry has built the protocols to respond when it does.

Is Avios becoming the tail that wags the airline? IAG Loyalty wants to make a billion euros, and many of the levers it's pulling to get there have nothing to do with flying.

The largest tourism-real-estate deals increasingly arrive with a demand for exceptional treatment: special investor status, rewritten protections, consent bypassed. Albania is just the loudest case; the governance failure is the same everywhere.

Posadas called its own luxury-heavy signings a ‘red flag,’ and is rebalancing as a soft quarter hit its luxury hotels hardest.

Hotel groups have doubled their brand counts since 2014, but RevPAR hasn't followed — the industry needs a new playbook for its brand portfolios.

Marriott International signed a strategic agreement with CG Hospitality Global to introduce Series by Marriott in China. Plus, more hotel deal and development news from APAC.

Skift Transatlantic Summit returns for its second edition this October in Dublin, convening senior travel leaders to examine how geopolitics, shifting demand, and AI are reshaping the world's most valuable travel corridor.

The Mayor of London is investing millions to try and change how the city is perceived online. London & Partners will run the campaign despite being impacted by funding cuts that curtail its work in attracting business events.