Articles tagged “finance”

As the Maldives grapples with economic challenges, travelers may begin questioning if the beauty of its overwater villas and turquoise waters still outweigh the growing price tag.

Cuts to interest rates would inject much-needed momentum into hotel deals and development. It's time to dust off those "When Rates Fall, Hotels Call" t-shirts you've had in the closet.

Indian travelers are evolving, and companies need to keep up!

Modernizing payment and financial operations systems has become one of the top priorities for small- and medium-sized travel companies as they aim to achieve global scale rapidly and strategically. The choices they make today to streamline and unify their payment and financial operations will impact their ability to stay competitive in the future.

The popularity of TUI’s sustainability-linked bonds far surpassed the company’s projections. Will these SLBs be a step toward more sustainable tourism or a mechanism for greenwashing?

More needs to be done to democratize hotel ownership, and Hilton's new program is a promising example.

This is a big win for Navan, giving it an inside track to a lot of Citi's corporate accounts.

Will a slowdown in bank lending lead to weakened hotel development for Wyndham? The world's largest hotel franchisor doesn't expect a problem, and it makes plausible arguments about why.

The UnTours Foundation is tired of all the talk and no action when it comes to making tourism sustainable. They hope their new $10 million fund will finally get the tourism industry in action mode. If the fund shows both impact and returns are possible, maybe the financial markets will take sustainable tourism more seriously as a business opportunity — a critical factor for industry-wide change.

Trip.com Group said on Friday it had tapped a $1.5 billion sustainability-linked loan facility, meaning that the financing terms link the debt's interest rates to the Chinese online travel giant's…