Skift Take: Brussels is looking to advance legislation that would clarify local authorities’ power to crack down on short-term rentals...
Blackstone Plans $7 Billion IPO of Spanish Resort Owner Hotel Investment Partners: Report
Skift Take: After nearly two years of weighing a sale, the private equity giant is reportedly steering the Barcelona-based owner...
A Viral AI Bot Just Showed Travel What Frictionless Actually Means
Skift Take: Instinct, a freshman AI assistant that has Silicon Valley buzzing, can book and rebook trips from a text...
Amadeus Brings Travel Tech Into Claude
Skift Take: Weeks after closing its self-service developer portal, Amadeus revealed that building new ties to connect its travel systems...
How Airports Are Growing Without Blowing Their Climate Goals
Skift Take: Airports insist that passenger growth and net zero aren’t in conflict but nearly all of their progress is...
Why Luxury GMs Need a Razor Sharp Point of View
Skift Take: As brands scale and standards spread, the property leader’s most important role is preserving the reason a hotel...
Emirates Pushes Premium Economy Upmarket as Business Class Gets Sliced Up
Skift Take: Airlines can no longer rely on passenger growth alone, so they're fighting harder for travelers who will pay...
The Short-Term Rental Model for Shrinking Places
Skift Take: The short-term rental fight was designed for cities running out of homes. A growing number of places face...
Feeding the soul: An appetite for Northern Italy
Art and music exist because some things are too beautiful to exist as words alone. Take Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons....
Skift Global Forum Preview: Amadeus’s President of Travel on Why the Traveler, Not the Platform, Should Hold the Controls
Skift Take: Decius Valmorbida thinks the industry competes too hard on closed ecosystems and cooperates too little on the plumbing....