Skift Take: SingleThread is expanding thoughtfully, leaning on translating its service culture through people and giving them bigger challenges to...
Canadians Were Just Starting to Come Around to U.S. Travel. Then Came the Trade War.
Skift Take: Canadian travel to the U.S. had just hit its fourth straight month of year-over-year gains when tariff disputes...
Motel 6’s Power: What Prism’s Annual Report Reveals Ahead of Its IPO
Skift Take: Prism has arguably built a much more sophisticated company than the Oyo of its first IPO attempt. An...
Cheval Is Riding Out Dubai’s Demand Slump On Long-Stay Guests
Skift Take: Cheval is betting Dubai’s domestic demand can carry it to recovery. S&P doesn’t see that recovery until 2027.Read...
What Hotelbeds’ Shrinking Margins Mean for Hotel Distribution
Skift Take: Hotelbeds became the dominant independent bed bank through scale. Its results now show that scale alone no longer...
Booking Holdings vs. Expedia in B2B: Bombshell Estimate Says Booking Leads in Room Nights
Skift Take: No matter how you parse the numbers, Booking Holdings' B2B business appears to be a lot larger than...
Google’s Agentic Hotel Booking Tool Comes to AI Mode
Skift Take: Google's agentic hotel booking is finally launching in AI Mode, nine months after it was first teased. Skeptics...
Why Flight Attendants Are Fighting Google’s Purchase of Spirit Airlines Data
Skift Take: Spirit says it is working with a third-party to scrub any personal information from the data before the...
Carl Icahn’s JetBlue Bet Didn’t Pay Off: Board Members Resign as Stake Shrinks
Skift Take: Icahn hasn’t had the same success as activist campaigns at Southwest. JetBlue’s stock has continued to decline since...
The UK’s Airport Record Hides a Huge Traffic Shift
Skift Take: A record quarter for UK airports was less a boom than a reshuffle: Gulf traffic collapsed as low-cost...