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Your Hotel Is Hot on TikTok Go. But AI Got All The Facts Wrong. TikTok's new hotel and experience booking feature is supposed to connect travelers with real properties, but an abundance of AI-generated content has property owners concerned.

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Marriott Presses Sales Teams on $1.55 Billion ‘Gap to Goal’ for 2027 Groups Marriott has given sales teams a year-end stretch goal of $1.55 billion for group bookings for next year at the hotels it manages in the U.S. and Canada. Its global 2027 group sales look "flattish." Other companies are more upbeat.

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Fosun Files for ClubMed IPO in Hong Kong ClubMed's revenue rose less than 2% last year, suggesting that "premiumization" isn't delivering pricing power yet. An IPO would generate capital that might help fix that.

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How SingleThread Is Growing Without Copying Itself SingleThread is expanding thoughtfully, leaning on translating its service culture through people and giving them bigger challenges to tackle.

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Airbnb Is Testing Lower Fees for Hosts Who Bring Their Own Guests Call it "direct booking" if you like, but the reservation still runs on Airbnb's platform. And Airbnb's take rate now seems variable.

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Cheval Is Riding Out Dubai’s Demand Slump On Long-Stay Guests Cheval is betting Dubai’s domestic demand can carry it to recovery. S&P doesn’t see that recovery until 2027.

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What Hotelbeds’ Shrinking Margins Mean for Hotel Distribution Hotelbeds became the dominant independent bed bank through scale. Its results now show that scale alone no longer protects the economics.

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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.