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Fake AI Hotel Videos Are Coming for Travel Sarah Kopit and Seth Borko break down two travel distribution stories that are really about trust.

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Qatar’s Arrivals Are Down 30% This Year — Its Recovery Now Rests on F1 Arrivals are still down a third from last year. Qatar’s answer, as it was for the World Cup, is another mega event on the calendar.

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BRICS Summit Pushes Delhi Hotel Rates Up 4x as Room Supply Tightens Major events can send hotel rates sharply higher. But Delhi’s BRICS spike also shows how quickly hotel supply can get squeezed when demand arrives all at once.

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Could AI Agents Turn the Time Between Trips Into a Revenue Channel? AI agents are helping airlines and other travel companies stay connected with customers throughout the journey. By retaining context and acting on signals over time, they could turn isolated service interactions into a more persistent source of loyalty, direct bookings, and revenue.

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The New Travel Loyalty Leaders Aren’t Hotels or Airlines — They’re Banks Travel companies have spent years worrying about losing customers to online travel agencies. The bigger threat was already in the wallet.

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Biggest Innovators in Travel and Hospitality: Summer 2026 There is no shortage of launches and you can easily find the most expensive hospitality offerings. We're most interested in judgment that leads to truly exceptional service.

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Europe Prepares New Law to Support Cities’ Airbnb Crackdowns Brussels is looking to advance legislation that would clarify local authorities’ power to crack down on short-term rentals amid Europe's housing crisis.

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Blackstone Plans $7 Billion IPO of Spanish Resort Owner Hotel Investment Partners: Report After nearly two years of weighing a sale, the private equity giant is reportedly steering the Barcelona-based owner of hotels and resorts across the Mediterranean toward a Madrid listing this fall.

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A Viral AI Bot Just Showed Travel What Frictionless Actually Means Instinct, a freshman AI assistant that has Silicon Valley buzzing, can book and rebook trips from a text thread. Key lesson for travel: Talking about frictionless booking isn't the same as delivering it.

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Swiggy Has a New Travel Concierge. Can a Food Delivery App Make It Work? Travel is full of problems that don't fit neatly into an app. Swiggy's Crew is betting it can handle the messy parts.

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The Short-Term Rental Model for Shrinking Places The short-term rental fight was designed for cities running out of homes. A growing number of places face the opposite problem with population decline: too many homes and too few people.

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How Airports Are Growing Without Blowing Their Climate Goals Airports insist that passenger growth and net zero aren’t in conflict but nearly all of their progress is over emissions that they control. The bigger problem, emissions that lie in the supply chain, is starting to gain traction.

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Why Luxury GMs Need a Razor Sharp Point of View As brands scale and standards spread, the property leader’s most important role is preserving the reason a hotel belongs where it is.

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Emirates Pushes Premium Economy Upmarket as Business Class Gets Sliced Up Airlines can no longer rely on passenger growth alone, so they're fighting harder for travelers who will pay more.

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Amadeus Brings Travel Tech Into Claude Weeks after closing its self-service developer portal, Amadeus revealed that building new ties to connect its travel systems to Claude, both for developers and the travel workforce.  

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Intrepid Partners With Air Canada Vacations Right as Canada Pushes For More Domestic Travel: Exclusive The partnership launches as escalating trade tensions have politicians asking Canadians to trade U.S. travel for destinations closer to home.

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The Economics of Flight Search, Post-Google Skyscanner, Kiwi.com, and Wego built different businesses around the same problem: helping people find flights. Their latest private company filings show what that business is worth after Google — and what AI may change next.

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Saudi Tourism Names New CEO As Kingdom Pulls Back On Vision 2030 Spending Ageel Alshaibani inherits a goal of drawing 150 million tourists — a tough ask now that the Public Investment Fund is pulling back on the giga projects built to draw them.

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Ryanair Pulls Winter Capacity and Warns Rivals May Struggle to Survive Ryanair has a fuel hedge most airlines would envy, and it's still cutting unprofitable winter flights. Its more exposed rivals should be nervous.

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Southwest to Launch ‘at Least’ 11 Airport Lounges in Chase Partnership Lounges are the latest step in Southwest’s rapid transformation from a low-cost domestic carrier to a full-service operator.