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Hotels
Today’s edition of Skift’s daily podcast looks at Hilton’s AI hopes, Jumeirah’s expansion, and tours tech in Southeast Asia.
Rashaad Jorden | 1 hour ago
Skift Meetings
A looming state tax on exhibitors would have been an enormous blow to Kentucky’s lucrative convention business. Impacted organizations successfully joined together to fight this, and legislators have rescinded the second layer of tax.
2 hours ago
Travel Technology
As announcements have been made around ChatGPT and consumer-facing travel booking tech, other companies have been quietly working away on business-to-business generative AI products. There's more to come, no doubt.
Justin Dawes | 5 hours ago
Tourism
Government agencies, planemakers, and telecom companies still have work to do to ensure safe flight operations around airports with 5G airwave infrastructure.
Amrita Ghosh | 8 hours ago
Short-Term Rentals
Airbnb has lot on its plate: suspensions in multiple jurisdictions, incessant regulatory hurdles and more. But when its comes to business focus, the company is growing and paying more keen attention to how it serves the hosts on its platform.
Srividya Kalyanaraman and Dennis Schaal, Skift | 16 hours ago
MCR is using the expertise from its growing hotel enterprise to inform the development of its own growing hotel tech companies. What better strategy to solve some of the industry's biggest problems and make money doing it?
Justin Dawes | 17 hours ago
For the next few years, properties that deliver a differentiated experience will benefit because there is more demand than supply, hotel investors say.
Sean O'Neill | 18 hours ago
Tour Operators
TUI's ability to move beyond its safe middle-market playground through an expanded luxury offering came under the spotlight at the Skift Future of Lodging Forum. Ultimately, a brand's market share is way more than customer segments — it's really rooted in experience and value.
Selene Brophy | 19 hours ago
Airline Weekly
Italy's state-owned ITA Airways is looking more and more like perennial loss-maker Alitalia every day.
20 hours ago
Google has the data to understand exactly how the travel industry has changed post-pandemic — and how its technology needs to change with it.
Justin Dawes | 20 hours ago
Strides in artificial intelligence will enable Hilton and many others to enhance and speed up personalization efforts. You ain't seen nothing yet.
Dennis Schaal | 22 hours ago