Articles tagged “travel trends”

This week in tourism, we stepped back for a broad view. We examined what "luxury" and "rich" actually mean nowadays, and reviewed the Black Travel Movement over the past year.

This week in hospitality, we looked outside the box at other sectors. Some hotels mimic airlines when structuring their fees and West Elm Hotels is hooking up with Williams-Sonoma.

This week in aviation, we took a global view. American may unbundle fares to Europe, Air China worries about visa denials, and United's president talks Gulf carriers.

This week's digital news was off the charts: Expedia's CEO left for Uber and was replaced by Mark Okerstrom. On Thursday September 7, our expert journalists and researchers will break it down for you in a conference call. When you're done reading about the Expedia-Uber shakeup, we also analyzed Ctrip's earnings and Kayak's layoffs.

This week's aviation news went global. KLM started accepting WeChat Pay, a staple for Chinese consumers; Air Berlin's bankruptcy dented the European market, and Qantas suggested a 20-hour nonstop.

This week in hospitality news, when we weren't thinking about surge pricing before the solar eclipse, we were digging into Airbnb's ongoing prep for an initial public offering.

This week in digital news, we examined the growth of online travel agencies Ctrip and Booking.com, and what that means for smaller players.

This week in aviation news, we concentrated on Europe: first, whether the continent has too much airline competition, and second, what happened leading up to Air Berlin's bankruptcy.

This week in digital news we concentrated on online travel agencies: growing pains, the hedge funds that invest in them, Despegar's IPO, and the CEOs who'll speak at Skift Global Forum.

This week in hospitality news, hotel CEOs weighed in on stricter cancellation policies, lagging corporate travel bookings, and Airbnb checking the power of online travel agencies.