Articles tagged “travel trends”

This week in hospitality news, homesharing giant Airbnb overtakes Expedia in bookings, and budget hotel chain Oyo continues to enlarge its global footprint with its acquisition of Vegas Hooters. Plus, Marriott, IHG, Accor, and Hilton's investment in a meetings booking platform has major implications for event planners and hotel operators.

This week in tourism, Greenland, Georgia, and Venice all want visitors — but with a few caveats. Then check out our long read on cultural tours to indigenous communities and the exploitation that happens beneath the surface.

In digital news this week, text messages between executives at Sabre may have given U.S. regulators ammunition for their antitrust lawsuit against the tech giant over its acquisition of Farelogix. Also, we look at an IT outage at British Airways and other recent tech problems at airlines and talk to Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel about the potential of cash alternatives.

This week in digital news, we looked at how Avis is stretching beyond the traditional rental car business to offer new digital services, while TripAdvisor began mulling a loyalty strategy to take on giant Google. And we also looked at Eventbrite's struggles as a public company and what that means for the event tech sector.

This week in hospitality news, Marriott announces dynamic pricing for its Bonvoy loyalty program, and hotels get in on the wellness movement with ways to improve a good night's sleep for its guests. Plus the latest Skift Research takes a deep dive into the short-term rental ecosystem.

This week in tourism, we had our eye on Asia. Hong Kong's intense protests continue disrupting the travel industry, but that's just one major conflict. We have more on the strained relationships between South Korea and Japan, and China and Taiwan.

This week in aviation, United cracks down on pilots' alcohol consumption, Cathay sees complications from the Hong Kong protests, and we take a close look at competition in the European short-haul market.

This week in digital news, Red Roof launched a new best-rate guarantee program that provides a strong incentive to anyone who finds a cheaper room rate through a third-party site, and we look at what's behind all of Shiji's hotel tech acquisitions.

This week in hospitality news, we investigate how Airbnb has gone professional, weakening its core brand identity in the process. Plus. Booking gives big hotel brands a break on resort fees and the Middle East contemplates a new business strategy to fill empty hotel rooms.

This week in tourism, we investigate why an overtouristed destination would tax visitors, which is not necessarily meant as a deterrent. Then we ask why the United States is so rarely deemed unsafe, despite a shocking number of mass shootings so far this year.