Wizz Air, a budget airline, charges ticket buyers a higher administrative fee if they use an ad blocker while making their purchase. Why? | Continue reading
Capital One acquired Freebird, a business-to-business startup whose predictive technology lets agents sell smarter flight insurance and rebooking services. | Continue reading
I won’t bury the headline: the vast, global events industry is going through its Napster moment through this pandemic, and is in denial on what this will | Continue reading
Editor's Note: Today, July 30, is Skift's 8th anniversary as a company and we are running a package of insights from our editorial team looking forward — | Continue reading
American Airlines is telling the U.S. Department of Transportation your pet dog cannot apply for a credit card. Nor can you apply for a credit card using | Continue reading
Global travel industry intelligence: News, info, research and analysis on airlines, hotels, tourism, cruises, startups, tech and more. | Continue reading
Richard D. Centolella, principal at EDSA, a planning, landscape design, and architectural group, says design will be critical to travel's rebound. | Continue reading
As Chinese online travel agency Ctrip gets set to change its name to Trip.com Group Ltd. next month, the company — and the world — may not be fully aware As Ctrip changes its name to Trip.com Group Ltd. next month, the company — and the world — may not be fully aware of the very … | Continue reading
Tripadvisor CEO Steve Kaufer informed employees Tuesday morning in a town hall meeting that the company is reducing its global workforce by 25 percent, | Continue reading
I’m in my ninth month of pregnancy, and my husband is my co-founder of short-term rental startup Boutiq, so we are truly “all in” together on all fronts. | Continue reading
The Trump Administration on Friday demanded that Beijing-based Shiji Group unwind its acquisition of StayNTouch, the hotel property management system. | Continue reading
Google Flights is changing the way it makes money — and it could have significant implications for travelers, online travel agencies, and airlines. | Continue reading
As network planners at Alaska Airlines charged with where the carrier would fly and when, Ben Munson and David Sunde sometimes identified smaller | Continue reading
After a court fight and months of posturing over parting ways, Expedia Group and United Airlines have announced a new multiyear contract, avoiding some | Continue reading
Seven years into the Skift story, we have entered the "young adult" phase of our growth and deepening our imprint on the global travel industry bySkift announced on Tuesday our second major acquisition. EventMB, the largest online media resource for trends, technology, innovation … | Continue reading
On August 6 and 7, some of British Airways check-in systems at London airports crashed. The carrier canceled more than 100 flights, inconveniencing British Airways faced an IT glitch at London in early August, extending a string of tech troubles. | Continue reading
The event technology landscape has seen major consolidation in recent years, led by Cvent as it scales up to retain its position as the industry leader. | Continue reading
Skift Airline Weekly is celebrating its 15th anniversary this month, and we're taking a look through the archives to see how the airline world has | Continue reading
Two-and-a-half years after debuting Airbnb Experiences, Airbnb is putting itself into direct competition with traditional tour operators with the launch Two-and-a-half years after debuting Airbnb Experiences, Airbnb put itself into direct competition with traditional tour operato … | Continue reading
Travel companies have been waiting for Amazon's inevitable next try at travel booking after shuttering its nascent hotel business in 2015. It now appears A shoe just dropped. Amazon is stepping into travel again. It may offer travel products in all sizes once it really gets going … | Continue reading
If you've been waiting for the proverbial next shoe to drop when it comes to Google Travel putting all the pieces together, it just did. Google on Tuesday | Continue reading
A furious Hertz is suing over a massive web design failure. The car rental giant filed a lawsuit last week against management consulting firm Accenture, A furious Hertz is suing over a massive web design failure. | Continue reading
If you live in the West and parts of Asia and Africa, you take the Google Maps app everywhere you go, stuffed in a pocket or clutched in a hand. And its Whether Google Maps becomes the next super app may depend on whether users really want a do-it-everything app, and the mood of … | Continue reading
We tend to think of media companies as the things we sit down with after work, or the brands bringing us blockbusters at the cinema. But one of the most Emirates, the Dubai based carrier, has one of the most sophisticated approaches to buying media and providing entertainment for … | Continue reading
Who will be the biggest online travel agency in Southeast Asia in future? Traveloka? Expedia? Agoda? If you have not added AirAsia to the usual suspects, AirAsiaa to become a tech player that happens to own an airline. | Continue reading
The white BMW luxury sedan glides up to a Taiwanese noodle shop in a Vancouver suburb, hailed courtesy of a Chinese-language app. The eight-minute ride in The white BMW luxury sedan glides up to a Taiwanese noodle shop in a Vancouver suburb, hailed courtesy of a Chinese-language … | Continue reading
Paul Katsen of New York was set to begin a Wednesday trip to South Africa when he received a message from HotelQuickly saying the hotel bookings were Online travel agency HotelQuickly faced financial trouble that prevented it from fulfilling its hotel bookings, stranding many tra … | Continue reading
HomeToGo, a vacation rental price-comparison startup, has acquired the assets of Tripping.com three years after entering the U.S. market. It has also HomeToGo, a vacation rental metasearch company, has acquired some of the assets of Tripping.com, a forme leader in the space. | Continue reading
TripAdvisor touts itself as the world's largest travel website in terms of traffic, but it has a problem: Millions of users browse the site every month TripAdvisor launched a new homepage worldwide that provides a content and social feed to those users just stopping by for a look … | Continue reading
Travel technology giant Sabre is buying Farelogix, an airline distribution technology specialist, for about $360 million in the largest deal a few years Sabre, a travel technology giant, has made an offer to acquire Farelogix, a travel distribution specialist in a bid to enhance … | Continue reading
Travel advertising has been going through a bit of a down cycle of late, nothing great has caught our eye for the last few years, as everyone gloms on to | Continue reading
Why ever stop searching for travel on Google and turn to a hotel or online travel agency site when you can book your hotel right there without leaving When it comes to Google's, hotel search redesign few things are all or nothing. Hotel websites and phone numbers get featured, bu … | Continue reading
Expedia Group said it had acquired two small startups — Pillow and ApartmentJet — which help owners of multifamily residential communities list and manage Expedia's acquisitions of Pillow and ApartmentJet will let it help the owners of apartment complexes comply with the law when … | Continue reading
For three consecutive winters beginning in 2010, executives at Budapest's airport watched daily to see if their largest tenant, the Hungarian national What is the value of owning an airline to a government besides national pride? And does it make sense to prop up airlines as more … | Continue reading
As we head into 2019, Skift is expanding into Asia in a big way, as we turn our geographic focus to the world's fastest-growing and most dynamic travel | Continue reading
Getting from Singapore to New York in one hop is better than a layover—even if it involves taking the world’s longest flight. That’s my jetlagged verdict Singapore Airlines now has the world's longest flight, a10,400-mile trek in business class between Singapore and New York City … | Continue reading
Australian-based Flight Centre has acquired Umapped, a Toronto-based technology company that provides travel documentation, communication, and itinerary Australian-based Flight Centre has acquired Umapped, a Toronto-based technology company that provides travel documentation, com … | Continue reading
An Italian court handed down a nine-month prison sentence to a person who wrote fake hotel reviews on TripAdvisor in exchange for money from hotels aiming An Italian court has ruled that writing fake TripAdvisor reviews using a false identity is illegal and sentenced someone to n … | Continue reading
It was a tense week for some members of Marriott and Starwood's loyalty programs as early glitches irritated some members. | Continue reading
When Delta Air Lines takes delivery of its newest — and likely most passenger-friendly — narrow-body jet early next year, it plans to deploy them in When Delta Air Lines takes delivery of its newest — and likely most passenger-friendly — narrow-body jet early next year, it plans … | Continue reading
Skift is turning six today. Of all the achievements anyone can ask of a company from its infancy, staying power — mere survival — is the toughest of them. Skift is turning six today. Of all the achievements anyone can ask of a company from its infancy, staying power — mere surviv … | Continue reading
Airbnb Inc. will need to share the names and addresses of hosts in New York City with officials thanks to a new law, the latest setback for the Airbnb Inc. will need to share the names and addresses of hosts in New York City with officials thanks to a new law | Continue reading
Booking.com reshaped the competitive landscape in travel as its parent company, the Priceline Group, now appropriately named Booking Holdings, transitioned from second-tier player to outright leader. Here is the oral history, including interviews with key decision-makers, of two … | Continue reading
Booking Holdings said on Monday it would acquire Sydney, Australia-based HotelsCombined to expand the company's travel price-comparison, or metasearch, On Monday Booking Holdings said it would acquire Sydney, Australia-based HotelsCombined to expand the company’s price-comparison … | Continue reading
Every fall to accompany Skift Global Forum we publish a collector's magazine devoted to one big topic. These have focused on larger issues that have an | Continue reading
The first Airbus SE superjumbo to exit service will be stored minus its engines at a French airfield next week as its owner seeks a new operator for a plane that while still relatively young in industry terms has fallen out of favor with airlines. | Continue reading