Record Seaweed Levels Are Hitting Caribbean Beaches — Hotels Are Cutting Prices
Sargassum has gone from a nuisance to a structural threat for Caribbean tourism, and 2026 is shaping up to be the worst year on record.
Darin Graham is an award-wining climate journalist covering the travel industry for Skift. He reports on how airlines, hotels, and tourism businesses are responding to the climate change – from the innovations and technologies respawning the industry to greenwashing allegations and business risk.
Royal Caribbean’s Giant Beach Resort Blocked by Mexico after Environmental Backlash
At what point in the investment cycle does environmental risk now need to be priced in? The answer, increasingly, is before the land is bought.
How a Small Hotel Group Is Financing Solar When Federal Tax Credits Are Gone
The rollback of U.S. clean energy tax credits has not stopped every hotel from investing in renewables.
Extreme Day Trips: Climate Costs and a Debate the Travel Industry Can’t Avoid
The extreme daytripping debate has raised fresh concerns about the climate impacts of an industry that largely says it is committed to responsible tourism and reducing emissions.
How a Cruise Line Cut Emissions by 90% on a 12-Day Voyage
Havila Voyages has shown that low-emission cruising through Norway's fjords is technically possible. The harder question is whether the infrastructure to support it can keep pace.
Extreme Heat Is Changing When and Where People Travel: Booking Holdings
Traveler behavior is shifting, but the data suggests it's redistribution, not retreat, with heat and crowds pushing demand into shoulder seasons.
The Net-Zero Club: The Green Hotels Rejecting Fossil Fuels
Hotels that cut fossil fuels can lower operating costs and risk and even improve guest comfort, but the industry still treats decarbonization as optional, too expensive, confusing, and hard to compare or find.
Authorities Around the World Are Banning Flight Ads Due To Climate. But Will It Change Anything?
The bans may not ground a single flight, but they are opening the door to harder policy conversations.
Delta Walks Back Climate Targets
Delta's language shift, from "goal" to "aspiration," may sound like semantics, but it signals a broader retreat from hard climate commitments at a moment when the airline industry's 2050 net-zero pledge is already under strain.
Closed Reefs Cost Money. A Colombian Coral Island May Have The Solution.
Tourism has always counted visitors. This could help tourism count the environmental cost.