Is Las Vegas Out of Luck?
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?
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Dubai’s Rove Hotels Targets Saudi Arabia’s Mid-Scale Gap Before the Events Crunch Hits
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.
Why Trip.com Group’s Edison Chen Says Proximity Is Power in Global Travel
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.
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Portman Closes $540 Million in Financing for Cincinnati Downtown Marriott
Portman closed on $540 million in financing to build a 700-room Marriott in downtown Cincinnati. Plus, other hotel development news.
Apple’s Wallet Key Turns Into a Full Trip Pass, With Disney as Launch Partner
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.
U.S. Hotel Demand Is Rebounding — and It’s No Longer Just a Luxury Story
Ten weeks of data show remarkably strong demand from business and leisure travelers. It's not just a World Cup bump.
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As Europe Swelters, Event Organizers Face a New Reality: Heat Emergency Planning
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.
IAG’s €1 Billion Loyalty Ambition Depends More on Banks Than Airlines
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.
What Albania’s Flamingo Revolution Tells Us About Sovereign Capital’s Coastline Problem
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.
Mexico’s Posadas Had Gone Too Luxury. Its Next Deals Will Even the Split.
Posadas called its own luxury-heavy signings a ‘red flag,’ and is rebalancing as a soft quarter hit its luxury hotels hardest.
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Do Hotels Need to Optimize Their Brand Portfolios?
Hotel groups have doubled their brand counts since 2014, but RevPAR hasn't followed — the industry needs a new playbook for its brand portfolios.
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Marriott to Develop 100 Series by Marriott Hotels in China
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.