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Franchise agreements, like casinos, tend to favor the house. Now, as a generation of hotel contracts begin to expire, some owners are deciding to walk away from the table.

Julie Coker lobbied publicly for $11.9 million in additional city funding, then announced she's leaving for Visit California. Whether New York answers that ask, or doesn’t, is now a question the next CEO inherits.

Julie Coker is leaving NYC Tourism after less than two years. She needs to turn around sluggish inbound tourism and needs to move fast: Los Angeles is hosting the 2028 Olympic Games.

Going into what is expected to be a busy July 4 travel season, airlines are cutting capacity as they hope to hold onto their pricing gains.

Delta has spent much of 2026 building up its presence in Asia partly in an attempt to gain more market share in the Pacific from its major rival in the region, United.

Trip.com’s financials are the clearest single document in travel for understanding what “China risk” actually looks like when it shows up in a balance sheet.

Data, facts, and figures from across the incentive industry reflect the impact of rising costs and geopolitical uncertainty on spending.

Like Elvis in his later years, Las Vegas seems to have lost some of its vigor. Is it just a temporary setback? A case of missing Spirit Airlines? Or is there something more to this dip on the Strip?

Mid-scale supply in Saudi Arabia is structurally short, and the events pipeline — Expo 2030, the 2034 World Cup — will make that shortage acute. Rove is moving early, but it won’t be the only brand doing the math.

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.

The 2026 World Cup was supposed to be a story about soccer. Instead, it became a story about America.

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