2026 › February

If you are unsure whether your idea is “innovative enough” for the IDEA Awards, you are likely asking the wrong question.

Big hotel groups have a middle class problem. It's gotten harder to keep the promise of standardized, family-friendly quality hotels at reasonable rates.

It's been a slog for Trivago executives to turn around the company. In 2026, they argue they have the advertising scale to get more profitable.

The operator is expanding passenger terminal capacity and positioning the airport as a private jet hub ahead of Wynn Al Marjan casino’s opening next year.

Airlines exploring modern retailing face a narrow margin for experimentation, as changes increasingly play out in live operational settings. Hitit Oxygen offers a look at how offer-and-order models are being tested in practice, as airlines pursue scalable paths to evolve without disrupting day-to-day operations.

Smaller, regional operators find it hard to compete with international brands.

Kindred's challenge is to help take home-swaps from a niche market into a more mainstream product.

Big widebody orders grab the headlines, but relatively modest deals such as this one can still have an outsized impact on regional markets.

Chalet’s Athiva push shows how Indian hotel operators are using rebranding and pricing power and not just occupancy growth, to capture the country’s premium travel boom.

Kayak's Steve Hafner has seen everything in online travel, from the founding of airline-owned Orbitz to the AI era.