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Women event professionals report being stereotyped, harassed, unable to balance work and family, paid less than men, and then as the ultimate insult, forced out of their jobs at the late stage of their careers. And that’s in an industry made up mostly of women.

The World Cup handed host cities a global stage. Marketing videos underscore how host cities are using it to reassure a world that has grown more hesitant to book U.S. travel.

Buying and flipping broken hotels is lumpy and cyclical. Highgate's fees for third-party hotel management are a steady drip that keeps the lights on between the big, risky trades.

Not all attendees at virtual meetings are human. AI note-taking bots are proliferating, and although they may assist attendees with note-taking and summaries, they are posing challenges for planners.

Navan is winning large enterprise clients, picking them up when customers reevaluate their vendors in the face of protracted mergers.

Creativity is rarely a straight line — it’s an exploration. This is where planners get fresh ideas for their events.

India's hotel market doesn't need another global chain pretending to be local. Kerten Hospitality's entire bet is that developers have finally figured that out too.

The federal government sold Washington, D.C.,'s former Old Post Office building, now a Waldorf Astoria hotel, to BDT & MSD Partners. Plus, more hotel deal and development news.

AI agents can already help travelers dream up trips. Booking them is harder. Travelport is betting that cleaner access to flights, hotels, and extras will keep travel sellers from looking elsewhere.

Aven, the former Sabre hospitality business, is taking direct aim at a core hotel tech problem: how much legacy infrastructure can still support modern direct booking. Its new booking engine shows what a cleaner rebuild could look like.

As one of the largest travel markets continues to shrink due to political tensions, Canadian carriers told Skift that U.S. travel is still producing healthy margins.

Operators are banking on spur-of-the-moment travel from soccer fans who want to see their favorite teams play in the World Cup. Data suggests there are reasons to be optimistic, but it’s still not clear how big of a surge last-minute bookings will bring.