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Klook has no grand OTA ambitions, at least for now. Its bigger bet is that AI can smooth out the messiness of experiences booking and help it deepen its lead in the category while pulling travelers into adjacent trip spend.

Major hotel groups are betting a domestic tourism boom in India can withstand a broader consumer spending slowdown and stock market slump. Plus, more hotel deal and development news from APAC.

One person connects the Amex GBT take-private, Airbnb’s board, a $10.75 billion travel loyalty startup, and Berkshire Hathaway’s governance committee.

Meeting planners are rethinking conference networking. Here’s how Louisville is creating more experiential attendee connections.

Apple's rebuilt Siri is not booking trips. But it is getting better at understanding the messy context around them.

As meetings become increasingly vulnerable to political tensions and activism, planners are forced to decide where to draw the line between free expression and disruption.

One immigration attorney calls the latest U.S. travel fee a step toward a two-tiered system: one path for the rich, another for everyone else.

Jefferies described its NYU/NAREIT meetings as being among the most constructive in recent memory. Plus, other hotel deal and development news.

Given Skyscanner's leading global footprint in flights, it isn't hard to envision an LLM extracting it from Trip.com Group to accelerate building a travel vertical.

Alaska is doing away with earning points on basic economy seats, but it thinks the installation of Starlink across its fleet will funnel more customer loyalty.

The Gulf hub model was built for scale and transfer traffic. The Iran war has disabled both.

Four years to scale to 550 aircraft and 200 million passengers. Four years to build a widebody business while Air India races down the same long-haul runway. The clock is ticking for IndiGo.