Rafat Ali, Skift
We're hosting our inaugural Skift Forum Asia at Singapore's Equarius Hotel, part of the acclaimed Resorts World complex on beautiful Sentosa Island. Hope to see you there!
1 hour ago
Jacqueline Poh, Bloomberg
It doesn't matter that this is only a third or so of pilots: Consumers don't know the difference. It's good news for their competitors.
4 hours ago
Sarah Enelow-Snyder, Skift
This week in tourism, we looked at the fallout from South Africa's prohibitive visa requirements for minor travelers, and how TUI survived the summer's northern European heat wave by being strategic with its cruise ships and hotels.
12 hours ago
BounceX + Skift
OTAs need to do a better job at identifying their customers and understanding why they’re abandoning their carts before booking. Relying on cookie-based technology to solve for this is no longer enough.
3 days ago
Sarah Enelow-Snyder, Skift
This week in aviation, Anne Rigail will be the new CEO of Air France, an extremely rare appointment in a particularly male-dominated industry. Then we have stories about electronic searches at customs, Real IDs, and how artificial intelligence helps airline news go viral.
15 hours ago
Associated Press
It's remarkable that what started as a rule violation turned into a useful app for beachgoers, instead of just a drawn-out fight.
16 hours ago
Sarah Enelow-Snyder, Skift
This week in hospitality, we have three stories on Airbnb's global doings. The homesharing platform acquired French company Luckey Homes, helped form a vacation rental association in Japan, and settled a lawsuit in Miami.
1 day ago
John Antczak, Associated Press
Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson's private space company, scored a long-elusive win this week with a successful trip to the edge of space. Branson says in three years he'll be up there. But given a record of delays, we're not holding our breaths.
2 days ago
Sarah Enelow-Snyder, Skift
The big digital news this week was all about Travelport. One of the big three platforms for airline distribution is being taken private in an all-cash transaction valued at around $4.4 billion.
2 days ago
Justin Bachman and Julie Johnsson, Bloomberg
Spirit Airlines finds itself in an unusual position by winning best on-time performance for October. The carrier has a slightly more modest goal for the longer term — it wants to be in fourth to sixth place consistently — but even that is an improvement compared to a few years ago.
2 days ago
Esha Dey, Bloomberg
Flying cars present even more knotty technological and legal problems than automated cars. Building an autonomous drone that can fit a person inside and fly long distances is quite difficult; it will likely be decades before they hit the mainstream.
2 days ago
Deanna Ting, Skift
LVMH might not have been the most obvious of suitors for Belmond's luxury assets, but now that it's close to owning them, it's a deal that makes a lot of sense in this post-experience economy still contending with the concept of new luxury.
2 days ago