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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.

Conference centers used to be known as no-nonsense, even vanilla. Not any more.

Vietnam is building on one of Southeast Asia’s strongest tourism growth stories through regional partnerships, stronger air connectivity, and infrastructure investment, a strategy that is helping it pull ahead.

The DMO's role in the meetings industry is expanding: Visit Atlantic City is showing what it looks like when a destination partner moves from the margins to the center of event execution.

Large amounts of attendee, exhibitor, and payment data make convention centers a prime target for cyberattacks.

The competitive variable in travel AI isn't model sophistication. It's whether customers trust the product enough to let it act on their behalf — and most companies are still investing in the wrong layer.

Hilton announced the launch of Undergraduate by Hilton, a new upper-midscale brand developed to serve a broader range of college and university markets. Plus, more hotel deal and development news.

After closing a merger with Sun Country, Allegiant CEO Greg Anderson is eyeing ways to strengthen the carrier’s credit card and loyalty programs.

On Monday's Good Morning Hospitality, A Skift Podcast, Brandreth Canaley, Michael Goldin, and Jamie Lane break down a week where the infrastructure of hospitality is being stress-tested from every direction.

Travel search was built around a useful limit: people eventually stop looking. AI agents don’t. That turns comparison shopping into a cost problem for airlines, intermediaries, metasearch, and hotels trying to keep control of demand.

In his first media interview as Expedia’s Chief AI and Data Officer, Xavier Amatriain gives a rare look at the logic shaping one of travel’s most closely watched AI strategies. 

Treating women as a monolith isn't a diversity failure — it's a revenue leak the industry keeps choosing not to fix.