Skift Take Lastminute.com Group’s deal with TUI Musement will enable more travelers to book tours and activities as an add-on to flight-plus-hotel packages. Jesse Chase-Lubitz TUI...
The travel tech industry is ripe for consolidation. That is what industry experts have been saying all year, and it seems they’re right. There have been...
Travel payments is the theme for this week’s startup funding roundup. Three of the startups featured this week are focused on simplifying various types of payments...
Skift Take Microsoft wants to help travel companies adopt generative AI, and many of those connections are coming through Amadeus. Justin Dawes Microsoft has invested billions...
Skift Take American Airlines tried to drag an entrenched industry toward the airline’s vision of a more productive distribution future. But the financial hit stung. Dennis...
Skift Take CEO pay versus performance: See the highest-paid travel bosses and how they scored on total returns for their shareholders. Dennis Schaal Glenn Fogel, the...
Skift Take Google has made several announcements in recent weeks about how its generative AI model is being used to power next-generation travel technologies. Justin Dawes...
Skift Take EaseMyTrip had planned diversification of its operations when it went public, with a focus on growing the non-air business. Now, it is delivering just...
Skift Research reported earlier this year that Booking and Expedia — two giants of online travel — are experiencing slower growth and greater pressure on profit...
Skift Take If a soft economy is causing luxury travelers to limit their discretionary spending, that’s sour news for Chase Travel in the short term. But...
The Kayak website launched to the public in May 2004 as a pioneer in travel metasearch. When Kayak had its IPO in 2012, it was such...
Skift Take In contrast to some travel companies that adopted a cautious ‘wait and watch’ stance, hesitating to launch an IPO amid the uncertain landscape of...