The travel industry, digested. Curated opinion on hotels, airlines, OTAs and travel-tech.
Read → An article on Hospitality Net tells how Stephen King's 'On Writing' led a travel industry professional to build a daily writing habit and publish his first book. The lesson is clear for anyone in travel.
Read → The 524-room property adopts Shiji Daylight PMS and Infrasys POS on a single cloud platform to speed up guest service.
Read → A ten-year review of hotel catering and conventions: personalisation and tech gain ground, but hidden fees and staffing shortages squeeze smaller groups.
Read → India's domestic market keeps growing, but the country is getting pricier and more crowded while its international promotion shrinks. Inbound pays the price.
Read → Conversational AI opens the door to natural-language hotel search, but today's ARI infrastructure lacks the data detail needed to make it work well.
Read → Dubai's Identity authority launches Click and Travel, a border check that resolves the process in 12 to 15 seconds from your handset.
Read → Starlink becomes a must-have on board at 500,000 dollars per plane, Google reshuffles its European travel search in favour of OTAs, and the French hotel front against Booking fades.
Read → Airlines are rushing to install Starlink so they don't lose passengers. It costs around $500,000 per plane, and the real question is who foots that bill.
Read → Lufthansa, Emirates and Lufthansa again. LAX remains one of the few airports where spotting two wide-body quad-jets taxiing at once is routine.
Read → The airline reports €818 million in revenue and €47.4 million EBIT, up 41%, while reinforcing its long-term continuity.
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