The travel industry, digested. Curated opinion on hotels, airlines, OTAs and travel-tech.
Read → The LVMH-linked fund is putting capital into how people spend their free time and is becoming one of the sector's most relevant investors.
Read → Accor AI chief Nicolas Maynard warns that scaling artificial intelligence across Europe is harder than piloting it. His bet, still, is autonomous agents.
Read → Carnival skips the premium race and goes for affordable pricing and multigenerational families, according to Skift.
Read → HEDNA and the AI Hospitality Alliance publish a free catalogue with 109 AI use cases across 39 hotel systems. Finally something concrete.
Read → FHS World 2026 gathers over 200 investors managing 5 trillion dollars in Dubai. The easy-money era in hospitality is over, and that is good news for anyone who can actually manage an asset.
Read → AI enters daily hotel and airport operations while corporate rates for 2027 already have a number. Today's brief.
Read → Hermès, Rolex and Amex Centurion have spent years selling the same thing: friction, scarcity and the fear of missing out. Premium hotels are watching.
Read → Wellness used to mean spa. Now the weights room and functional training are starting to decide bookings, and that changes how you sell your hotel.
Read → Smart Travel News takes its Roadshow to Las Palmas on Wednesday 30 September with nine candidates and Liiffe as sponsor.
Read → EXPO Real in Munich brings hoteliers and developers together to debate how facial recognition and frictionless booking are reshaping distribution.
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