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Canada's hotel industry reported a third consecutive month of year-over-year performance increases. Dolce by Wyndham is expanding its U.S. footprint with three new hotels. Plus, more hotel deal and development news.

Boon Sian Chai has watched Trip.com's international business scale across more than 200 countries while keeping its edge hyperlocal. At Skift Asia Forum, he'll make the case for why Asia's travel operators are not catching up to the West — they're running ahead of it.

Google Cloud Next highlighted travel to show that “agentic” AI can collapse trip decisions into a single flow, using the cruise business as the top example.

Spirit Airlines appears to be close to receiving a $500 million lifeline from the government in a move that would be unprecedented for the airline industry.

The President of the United States floated the idea of the federal government buying my frenemy Spirit Airlines.

As planners move beyond generic ballrooms, Convene’s latest opening signals growing demand for venues with character, neighborhood identity, and built-in storytelling.

This week ChatGPT took new steps towards becoming a travel essential.

After a leadership scandal, Tourism Diversity Matters is attempting a comeback, but its scaled-back ambitions reflect a broader cooling of DEI momentum across the business world, meetings included. 

In a region that has been hit hard by the fuel crisis, Air New Zealand CEO Nikhil Ravishankar told Skift that the company is “nervous about what the future holds.”

Europe is always high on the wish list for incentive groups, and these new hotels will only make it more desirable.

H World's international arm has had its best year since its 2019 acquisition. Now it has to prove it can sustain the momentum.

Emirates uses first class as a brand weapon. En-suite bathrooms would deepen that moat — the economics alone will keep most rivals on the sidelines.