By taking on the issue of credit card holds, NYC is going one step further than the national FTC rule on junk fee disclosure. Small hotel operators will be most affected.
Short-term rentals are no longer a frontier business. Outside of a small group of disciplined operators, the sector has settled into a slow, operational grind that favors local execution over national ambition.
What happens next at Air India, including leadership decisions and regulatory outcomes, will shape not just the carrier's future, but India’s ambition to build a globally credible aviation champion.
Those invested in the current model aren’t happy when we point out a simple truth: The magic of short-term rentals has been professionalized out of existence.
For India’s largest airline, December wasn't so much about lost passengers as it was about the rising cost of running a complex operation at scale in a heavily regulated, rupee-dependent market.
Mews is pushing artificial intelligence beyond guest-facing features and into the core of hotel operations. The real question isn’t whether the technology exists, but whether hotels are ready to let software manage day-to-day decisions at scale.
Akasa Air's decision to include Apple Pay points to a larger picture, one where ease of payments is the differentiating point amid an increasingly competitive ecosystem around organized bookings.