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Airbnb-CarTrawler Partnership Details 1 Month In: Scoop
22+ hour, 20+ min ago (207+ words) Dennis Schaal is Skift's Founding Editor and Executive Editor. Dennis has been a reporter focusing on online travel and short-term rentals for more than two decades at Skift, Tnooz, USA Today, and Travel Weekly. He is well-known for tough one-on-one…...
Saudi OTA Almosafer on Track for Year-End IPO Despite Iran War Disruption
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (212+ words) Almosafer’s growth story now runs on domestic demand. That’s a bet on Makkah, the Red Sea, and Qiddiya outlasting a war that hit outbound travel first. Almosafer, Saudi Arabia’s largest travel and tourism company, is on track to list on…...
Inside Expedia's Silicon Valley Bid for AI Talent
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (209+ words) Expedia is taking its AI recruitment fight to the heart of Silicon Valley, with a new San Jose hub for AI and engineering just a 10-minute drive from the Googleplex. But can it court tech and AI talent away from…...
How Net Unit Growth Ate the Hotel Industry
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (120+ words) The roughly 200 brands across the big hotel groups make more sense as an answer to a quarterly growth metric than to anything travelers asked for. The pattern repeats across Midtown: multiple Courtyards, a Fairfield, a SpringHill Suites, more Residence Inns,…...
Overseas Travel to the U.S. Has Fallen for Four Straight Months — Despite the World Cup
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (147+ words) In June and July, the United States ushered in visitors from dozens of countries as a World Cup host. It wasn’t enough to put an end to disappointing overseas tourism figures. The travel industry had been banking on the World…...
Travel Creators Follow the Money to Shorter Trips
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (190+ words) Travelers are more interested in shorter, closer trips. Creators are adjusting their content to match. Sandy Hazelip and Ellie Hamby, Texas-based 85-year-olds known as the Traveling Grannies on TikTok, have earned more than 110,000 followers by posting about their trips to…...
Yatra Online Uses Travel Disruption to Go Deeper Into Corporate Travel
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (176+ words) Yatra may be seeing less corporate travel right now, but it's building the infrastructure to capture more of it later. India’s Yatra Online said Thursday it is using a period of geopolitical disruption that has weakened international business and events…...
Accor's Fix for Corporate Travel's Most Tedious Ritual: Rates That Don't Vanish
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (191+ words) Hotel groups and corporate clients burn months every year haggling over room rates that often fail to show up when employees actually book. Accor is leaning on automation to help fix this. Corporate travel buyers and hotel groups spend months…...
Virgin Atlantic's CEO on Why People and Experience Make the Difference
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (823+ words) Corneel Koster is betting Virgin Atlantic wins where AI can't. Namely, the feeling a traveler leaves with. But turning that into paying customers — not just loyal fans — is the real test of his first year as CEO. And we'll press…...
These 13 Environmental Laws Could be Waived to Speed Up Airport-to-Spaceport Conversions
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (164+ words) The industry praised the move but environmentalists say it’s a giveaway of power. Dozens of airports sit on land, runways, and remote buffer zones that could be turned into spaceports — and the FAA just proposed waiving 13 environmental laws to help…...