Articles tagged “wanderlust”

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.

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.

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

Saudi Arabia's tourism chief is out and the giga-projects are being scaled back. The Kingdom’s tourism mission may be "unchanged," but is being unmistakably revised.

The global travel industry's framework for managing overtourism was built for rich countries. Ten years after Skift coined the term, that may be the underbelly it has revealed.

At what point in the investment cycle does environmental risk now need to be priced in? The answer, increasingly, is before the land is bought.

Guatemala’s tourism push is about delivery as well as discovery. Routes, rooms, and reliability on the ground are needed to compete for high-spending travelers who have established choices elsewhere in the region.

The travel industry has spent three years talking about artificial intelligence. In the summer of 2026, we’re finally building with it.

Billionaire Tilman Fertitta is buying a debt pile with a casino company attached. His firm is assuming $11.9 billion of debt from Caesars while putting up $5.7 billion to acquire it. Expect asset sales as an endgame.

Ten years after Hilton, Marriott, and other chains began coaxing travelers to book directly, online travel agencies still control roughly the same slice of the pie. Yet the chains have won the economics: lower commissions, better contract terms, and stronger loyalty programs.