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Future of Lodging

As the lines continue to blur between hotels and short-term rentals, Skift is focused on the technology and the consumer behaviors that are driving this. Follow our coverage across the wide world of lodging, from traditional hotels and motels to urban short-term rentals and traditional vacation rentals.

Hotels

Hyatt Expects Luxury Travel Rebound to Stay Strong Despite Market Turmoil

Pity Hyatt. Just as the pandemic's dark clouds are lifting, market turmoil overshadows its optimism. Yet that isn't dimming Hyatt executives' outlook.

Hyatt Expects Luxury Travel Rebound to Stay Strong Despite Market Turmoil

Skift Originals

The Great Merging

How we live, work, socialize and travel have merged into each other, with profound implications for the global industry at the center of selling this dream. How will travel respond?

The Great Merging

Hotels

Robots and Automation Move From Novelty to Necessity in Hotels

Given the constraints of today’s labor market — and the speed to onboard new hospitality talent — it’s time to push the envelope when it comes to artificial intelligence, robotics, and automation.

Robots and Automation Move From Novelty to Necessity in Hotels

Mergers and Acquisitions

Sabre to Buy Nuvola in Bet on Hotel Upselling

Sabre gets deeper into hotel operations with this acquisition of a vendor of upselling and guest messaging tech.

Sabre to Buy Nuvola in Bet on Hotel Upselling

Mergers and Acquisitions

Oyo Expands Vacation Homes Strategy With Europe Acquisition of Direct Booker

It seems like it's business as usual for Oyo as it goes ahead with its acquisitions and alliances, all's still quiet on the IPO front.

Oyo Expands Vacation Homes Strategy With Europe Acquisition of Direct Booker

Hotels

Scotland’s Gleneagles Offers Subscription Model for 1st Expansion in 9 Decades

It's hard to look at Ennismore's chic new Gleneagles Townhouse, which puts equal weight on its members club as its hotel, without drawing a connection to how many travel brands have been testing the subscription model.

Scotland’s Gleneagles Offers Subscription Model for 1st Expansion in 9 Decades

Hotels

Wyndham Goes for a Larger Bite of the Recovery in Latin America

The world's largest hotel franchisor has its eye on Latin America. Wyndham has named Gustavo Viescas to a top role, where he'll lead the company's plans to double its hotels regionally by 2027.

Wyndham Goes for a Larger Bite of the Recovery in Latin America

Hotels

IHG’s Recovery Is Being Offset by Greater China Drag

Strong pricing power combined with buoyant U.S. and European markets are helping IHG Hotels & Resorts edge closer to a full recovery, a first-quarter trading update reveals. But colleagues in its Shanghai office have a different outlook in their region.

IHG’s Recovery Is Being Offset by Greater China Drag

Business Travel

When a Corporate Travel Booking Lasts for Years

A new generation of apartment-booking platforms want to throw out industry terms like "short-term rentals" and "leases." They simply call it living, and they’re now after corporate business.

When a Corporate Travel Booking Lasts for Years

Short-Term Rentals

Marriott Homes & Villas to Target Meetings and Retreats

Homes & Villas by Marriott International has carved out a differentiated offering in some respects, and it is trying to grow while sticking with the formula that brought it to where it is.

Marriott Homes & Villas to Target Meetings and Retreats