2026 Archives

Operators brace for a short-term slowdown in tourism and F&B revenue amid blanket cancellations and airspace closures.

In the face of the LLM threat, Booking Holdings thinks it can repeatedly grow its top line 8% annually over the "medium term" and earnings per share 15% over the same timespan.

Expedia has been downsizing its workforce over the last year, and plowing some of the savings into machine learning and AI. It's a playbook that's taking place across industries.

Airlines used to control baggage tracking. Now passengers do. SITA is wiring that shift directly into the industry’s recovery system.

The bad news is that global uncertainty will dent hotel demand. The good news is that Hyatt can reroute guests to properties elsewhere.

Travelers say they aren't ready to let AI book a trip. The industry is spending billions anyway — and no one has answered the most basic question: who pays when AI agents get it wrong?

Canada is in the middle of a quiet travel revolution, and most destinations are treating it like a rounding error. That is getting very expensive, very fast.

As the situation in Iran and the Middle East remains uncertain, Indian airlines have taken on the responsibility for returning stranded passengers.

Can a destination turn a few seconds of interest into a concrete travel plan? Fiji’s AI Travel Planner is an early attempt to answer just that.

Travel’s next growth cycle runs on data infrastructure, applied AI, and commercial precision. The executives building that future are taking the stage at Skift Data + AI Summit.