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Booking Holdings vs. Expedia in B2B: Bombshell Estimate Says Booking Leads in Room Nights No matter how you parse the numbers, Booking Holdings' B2B business appears to be a lot larger than the travel industry previously understood. Its in-process reorganization could have significant implications for OTA competition.

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Canadians Were Just Starting to Come Around to U.S. Travel. Then Came the Trade War.  Canadian travel to the U.S. had just hit its fourth straight month of year-over-year gains when tariff disputes between the two countries escalated — a worrisome development for hotel operators and destinations.

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American Joins the Race to Add New European Routes and Premium Upgrades The new routes are part of a list of initiatives to shore up American’s profitability and improve its passenger experience compared to Delta and United.

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Marriott Heading for 100 Cities in India, but Country ‘Has to Tell Its Story Better’ India’s inbound tourism problem isn’t exactly breaking news. But having the CEO of a global hotel giant spell it out does make the missed opportunity look even more glaring.

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The UK’s Airport Record Hides a Huge Traffic Shift  A record quarter for UK airports was less a boom than a reshuffle: Gulf traffic collapsed as low-cost carriers and European leisure routes picked up the slack.

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More Americans Could Soon Be Eligible for Online Passport Renewals The State Department has proposed a new rule that would allow online passport renewals for Americans overseas and lift restrictions for domestic online renewal eligibility.

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Google’s Agentic Hotel Booking Tool Comes to AI Mode Google's agentic hotel booking is finally launching in AI Mode, nine months after it was first teased. Skeptics may see it as a redux of the shuttered Book on Google tool, but here's why the company thinks it has a better shot.

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Why Flight Attendants Are Fighting Google’s Purchase of Spirit Airlines Data Spirit says it is working with a third-party to scrub any personal information from the data before the transaction is approved.

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Carl Icahn’s JetBlue Bet Didn’t Pay Off: Board Members Resign as Stake Shrinks Icahn hasn’t had the same success as activist campaigns at Southwest. JetBlue’s stock has continued to decline since he first disclosed his stake.

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Motel 6’s Power: What Prism’s Annual Report Reveals Ahead of Its IPO Prism has arguably built a much more sophisticated company than the Oyo of its first IPO attempt. An American-heavy, India-operated hospitality platform that wants to use technology to take more control of the hotel and its economics.

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Here Are the Winners of the 2026 IDEA Awards The 2026 Skift IDEA Awards winners demonstrate that the most essential key to travel's future is to establish an innovative idea and to build it into a lever for change. These companies reflect the brightest future of travel.

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Why Taj-Parent IHCL Wants Full Control of Oriental Hotels The real significance of the IHCL-Oriental Hotels deal is more about tidying up how the hotel business is organized and setting up for future growth, rather than an immediate financial windfall.

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Skift Global Forum Preview: Virgin Atlantic’s CEO on Where AI Belongs and Where People Win Corneel Koster is betting Virgin Atlantic wins on what people feel, the sense of belonging a great crew creates, in an era where AI mediates the booking. He's backing that bet with premium cabins and scenario-planning discipline. We'll press him on it at Skift Global Forum this September.

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Why Every Boutique Hotel Founder Eventually Sells Asset-light lets boutique hotel brands grow without owning the real estate. It also leaves behind exactly what the big hotel companies want to buy: the brand.

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Rascal Voyages Bets on ‘Marine Safaris’ — and Freedom Over Formality Rascal thinks the next frontier is not more formality, but access to remote places, useful freedom, and crews trained to improvise.

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GMH Hotels: Harry Styles Is Moving Hotel Markets. On this week's ⁠Good Morning Hospitality, A Skift Podcast⁠: Hotels Edition, ⁠Sarah Dandashy⁠ and ⁠Steve Turk⁠ break down how demand is shifting across every segment of hospitality heading into Labor Day weekend.

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Theme Parks Keep Closing. Why Dolly Parton’s Dollywood Bucks the Trend. As independent theme parks shutter and Six Flags sheds assets to pay down debt, Dolly Parton’s privately-held, non-franchise park is in the midst of a $500 million expansion.

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Confirmed: Brand USA CEO Fred Dixon to Lead NYC Tourism Again The announcement follows Skift’s reporting that Dixon had been in advance talks for a return to NYC Tourism.

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Ixigo Tests Packaged Tours for Trains, Uber Becomes a New Distribution Engine Ixigo is taking a smart, low-risk approach to packaged travel. Rather than build and operate its own tours, it is testing demand by putting IRCTC-curated trips on its platform. If travelers bite, packaged tours could become the OTA’s next major product category.

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United Adds 10 Routes Across Europe and Asia — From Okinawa to Ibiza Unique destinations have become a central part of United’s strategy as it caters to more premium travelers and operates in an increasingly competitive transatlantic market.