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Uber’s Hotel Deal Tells You More About Expedia’s Future Than Uber’s
The math suggests Uber will subsidize hotel booking at a net loss for a subscription fee. Expedia's B2B business growing five times faster than its consumer business tells you who this deal is really for.
How This Owner Bought a Property with No Money Down and Turned it into a Top 50 Hotel
On this episode of Suite Success, host Katie Cline sits down with Jim Nagle, owner and managing partner of the Drake Oak Brook, an Autograph Collection Hotel, to unpack one…
Allegiant CEO Greg Anderson on Surviving the Value Airline Squeeze
As Allegiant’s Sun Country acquisition gathers pace, CEO Greg Anderson sees a smaller, more concentrated U.S. airline market by 2030 – and thinks Allegiant is built for it.
Travelers Don’t Care If It’s AI or Human — They Just Want the Answer Now
Asia's travel platforms are focused on providing the right answer fast. That may or may not require a human.
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Why Anthropic’s $400K Event Job Matters
Many worry AI will take their jobs — the events industry included. But a surge of high-paying roles at the companies leading the AI race tells a different story.
Prism’s G6 Debuts New Budget Brand in the U.S. — Studio 6 Plus
Studio 6 Plus is Prism's attempt to push G6 upmarket without abandoning the value lane, and to recruit developers with sharper franchise terms than its rivals are offering.
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Los Angeles Gets a New Boutique Hotel
The Ivory, an intimate 48-room boutique hideaway, is now open in the heart of Koreatown in Los Angeles. Plus, more hotel development news.
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Investors Bet on ‘OTA 2.0’ — But Some Builders Aren’t There Yet
Investors see AI creating a new generation of travel distributors, while others say the real work still runs through the old ones.
Marriott’s Rajeev Menon and Mandarin Oriental’s Alex Schellenberger at Skift Asia Forum 2026
Profit per available room is what truly moves the needle, said these leaders from Marriott and Mandarin Oriental.
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Are Events a Magnet for Corruption?
Their project-based nature and a lack of industry oversight make events a target for everything from bribery to fraud.
EternityX CEO Charlene Ree at Skift Asia Forum 2026
Demographic segmentation of Chinese outbound travelers is the wrong unit of analysis.