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Skift Take: India has listed out four Ps for hitting 100 million visitors. It lacks a fifth: a published path. With arrivals falling, the hope is there's a plan behind the promise, before this turns into a pipe dream. … [Read more...]

Skift Take: Owners, not brands, carry most of the payroll burden. The union's answer is blunt: There is "enough money in this system." But owners see things differently. … [Read more...]

Skift Take: Delta CEO Ed Bastian said the airline industry will need to find a way to sustain its revenue momentum whenever fuel prices start to recede. … [Read more...]

Skift Take: Delta still had a profitable third quarter, even as volatile fuel costs are now forcing it to lower its 2026 forecast. The carrier has already accrued $900 million in profit sharing for 2027. … [Read more...]

Skift Take: Leisure demand is carrying Accor's resorts while city hotels wait for corporate travel to return. … [Read more...]

Skift Take: The transatlantic corridor remains one of travel's most important markets — and also one of the most exposed to global disruption. … [Read more...]

Skift Take: Jet fuel costs are hitting new highs, eating into the gains from higher airfares. Delta is expected to be among the few U.S. airlines to see a profit this year. … [Read more...]

Skift Take: Climate is already a business risk that Himalayan tour operators grapple with, absorbing cancellations and rerouting. The bigger exposure is the destination itself as disasters reveal its fragility. … [Read more...]

Skift Take: With the Gulf's main airports now targets, the region's hub model is losing the reliability it sells. … [Read more...]

Skift Take: Asset-light growth can help hotel companies scale faster, but owners still carry the capital risk. Operators with skin in the game may be better positioned to test ideas, challenge investment assumptions, and focus on long-term hotel value. … [Read more...]

Skift Take: Four years after Flyr bought its way into hotels, it's handing the unit to one of the two rivals Skift said it would have to beat. … [Read more...]

Skift Take: Dubai's luxury hotels face a choice between protecting rates and filling rooms. Value-adds let them do some of both. The question is how long their 2025 buffers will last. … [Read more...]

Skift Take: Lower priced tickets can help build loyal visitors while premium add-ons drive more spending at the parks. … [Read more...]

Skift Take: Despite constraints at its biggest hub, competition from Delta, and surging fuel prices, Alaska's chief commercial officer told Skift that he thinks the carrier can dominate the West Coast with its premium investments and push into international routes. … [Read more...]

Skift Take: From a competition perspective, Vrbo is catching up to Booking.com and Airbnb in pushing the fee burden onto hosts. Eliminating or greatly reducing guest fees has great optics, but travelers will end up paying for them in the form of higher rates. … [Read more...]

Skift Take: Royal Orchid is betting India's next hotel winners will follow travelers, not the old hotel map. The test now is making sure its brands don't end up chasing the same customer under slightly different names. … [Read more...]

Skift Take: The test is whether deep live pricing and trust engineering beat horizontal agents on convenience alone. … [Read more...]

Skift Take: Navi Mumbai says it has capacity, infrastructure, a transit hotel, a road network to reach the airport. What it needs now is international passengers. … [Read more...]

Skift Take: Mews has nearly $20 billion flowing through its platform; the opportunity – and harder part – now is to capture more value from the money and operations it already touches. … [Read more...]

Skift Take: It seems less really is more. British Airways is removing dozens of seats from its A380s in pursuit of higher-value capacity. … [Read more...]