Rafat Ali

As Americans continue to prioritize outdoor experiences, the opportunity for states to rethink their approach to outdoor recreation remains significant.

How do we protect these experiences in their authentic non-museumized-non-touristed forms — Fez is already a simulacra — while not being hypocritical about their agency and desire to live a modern life?

By cutting through formalities, nurturing local talents, and broadening focus beyond traditional Western markets, these fast-growing regions can unlock new levels of success and innovation.

This seems to be a trial balloon. No active talks are underway. But it makes intuitive sense given Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's past and current ties with Expedia.

After a history of false starts with Tellme, Alexa, and Siri, will ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode unlock the holy grail: booking a flight?

The new Google search results in an age of AI-powered search is a fascinating mix of usefulness, uselessness, and sheer overwhelm of formats.

In a long, dense and fascinating proposed rule document the U.S. Federal Trade Commission published earlier this month in the Federal Register, it outlines what the effect of fee transparency…

In late September, Hyatt Hotels announced that it was exiting its vacation rental management business while launching an online short-term rental platform soon. Its Destination Residences Management unit was sold…

Booking Holdings, whose $1.8 billion deal to acquire Sweden’s eTraveli Group was blocked by European Commission earlier this year, paid out $90 million in termination fee this October, according to…

That's according to latest research put out by the Global Wellness Institute, in its annual state of the global wellness sector, of which tourism is one part.