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Despite global economic uncertainties, Marriott is betting big on India, emphasizing local empowerment and streamlined growth.

With India's economy booming and the middle class surging, MakeMyTrip sees now as the time to offer a service more sophisticated than just hotel and flight bookings, even if it presents challenges.

TikTok's move into travel-specific advertising signals its growing influence in the sector and challenges the perception that it's just for Gen Z dance videos.

Thomas Reiner says the best case scenario for online travel agencies is that they lose commissions. And metasearch engines could become things of the past.

There are huge stakes in how AI in travel will develop. And the truth is no one can say for certain at this point how it will play out.

From the residual uncertainty at the start of 2024, to a more resolute conviction and deeper sense of travel’s future at the end of the year, Skift’s Forums and Summits this year dove into a wealth of topics that inspired and catalyzed the industry around the ideas that matter. Here are just a few of our favorites.

Times are changing in the Middle East. If it wants to be a market for all, it needs hotel products to match.

Dubai Airports has set out to build the world's largest airport, but the size doesn't matter to its CEO, it's about the tech.

Dubai's ever-growing tourism sector makes STRs look like easy money, but operators warn this is far from true.

Speaking at the Skift Global Forum East in Dubai, Steven Greenway gave his clearest hint yet that the Saudi low-cost carrier will launch services to India.