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Luxury+Lifestyle: Can a Small Collection of Iconic London Hotels Out-Earn Big Brands? The owner of The Connaught and The Berkeley has hired the man who scaled Six Senses to build an operating company for luxury lifestyle hotels it owns and doesn't own.

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Inside the Financial Engineering of Club Med’s IPO Club Med wants to grow from 69 resorts to about 85 without owning the next wave, and its new financial structure helps explain why.

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Google Strips Out EU Travel Search Features to Avoid More Fines Google is scaling back certain search features in Europe as DMA enforcement escalates.

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What Hurricane Season Means For Hospitality’s Capex Host Hotels & Resorts’ $105 million work on The Don CeSar puts a real number on the cost of hurricane repairs and preparedness — but, as the company notes, investing in resilience doesn’t reduce risk to zero.

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Klook Bets Creators Can Sell the Whole Trip, Not Just the Viral Attraction The social media influencer’s “Like, Comment and Share” button just got a new friend… Meet the “Book” link.

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Air India’s New CEO Gets a Clear Mandate: Safety, Reliability and Profit New CEO Tewolde Gebremariam is taking over a very different Air India from the one Campbell Wilson inherited in 2022. The airline has more aircraft, more resources and bigger ambitions, not to forget, much higher expectations.

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Flyadeal CEO Reveals Plans for Premium Economy and Long-Haul Network Flyadeal’s move into connecting flights and premium economy marks a natural next step for a budget carrier scaling into long-haul.

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EU Ends Border ‘Safety Valve’ as Airlines Warn of More Delays The training wheels are off – Brussels now finds out whether Europe’s airports can actually stay upright.

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Vrbo’s Biggest Product Push Yet, and What Hosts Need to Know On this episode of Good Morning Hospitality, Michael Goldin, Brandy Canaley, and Jamie Lane sit down with Tim Rosolio, VP of Vacation Rental Partnerships at Expedia Group, to unpack what the expansion says about Vrbo’s strategy for the vacation rental market.

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Air India’s $1.1 Billion Lifeline Comes with Conditions: Reports Air India's owners haven't run out of money. They've run out of patience. The $1.1 billion lifeline shows they are still willing to back the airline, but now they want results.

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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.