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Skift Daily Briefing — 60 episodes

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1

Google Just Made Hotel Booking Part of the Chat

2

Dolly Parton Left Behind a Legacy That Draws 2 Million Visitors a Year

3

Wall Street Is Finally Buying Into Airbnb's Growth Story

4

Black Tomato Just Did the Opposite of Every Other Travel Company

5

Google Just Bought Spirit's Data for $10 Million and Got a Steal

6

If the World Cup Couldn't Fix U.S. Tourism, What Will?

7

Europe Is on Fire and Summer Travel Is at Risk Again

8

China's Travelers Want to Go Abroad. There Aren't Enough Flights.

9

Amazon Just Entered the Travel Booking Business

10

The World Cup Tourism Boom Was a Myth

11

Southwest Reinvented Itself and Just Had a Record Quarter

12

Loyalty Programs Are Now How Travel Companies Find New Customers

13

The UAE Passport Just Lapped the U.S.

14

Airbnb Added Car Rentals and Now Looks a Lot Like Expedia

15

United's CEO Says Cheap Flights Are Gone Forever

16

AI Is Not Going to Fix Travel's Labor Problem

17

Even Frontier Is Going Premium Now

18

Canada Is Still Not Coming Back to the U.S.

19

The Best World Cup Marketing Cost Nothing and British Airways Started It

20

EasyJet Is Being Sold and Every Independent European Airline Is Watching

21

AI Chatbots Are Skipping Travel Apps Even When They're Connected

22

Airbnb Beat Marriott at the World Cup and Spent Less Doing It

23

The Government Wants Airlines to Hide Fees Again

24

Supersonic Flight Over the U.S. Is Back on the Table

25

Hotel Owners Are Ditching Big Brands and Going Independent

26

Apple Wallet Wants to Run Your Entire Trip Now

27

Europe Is Melting and Airlines Want to Ban Something They Say They Don't Do

28

Marriott Is Getting Into Apartment Rentals and Airlines Are Invisible to AI

29

Airlines Are Keeping Fares High Even as Fuel Prices Drop

30

World Cup Hotels Are Charging More but Rooms Aren't Filling Up

31

The Gulf Is Opening Back Up. European Airlines Are Still Waiting.

32

Airlines Keep Losing and AI Can't Even Read Their Fares

33

Marriott's Loyalty Program Is So Profitable Its Own Hotel Owners Are Revolting

34

U.S. Tourism Is Sliding and the World Cup Hasn't Fixed It

35

Airfares Are Up 20% and Travelers Are Not Stopping

36

Aviation's 2050 Climate Goal Is Slipping and Nobody Has a Fix

37

The U.S. Just Made Visas Pay-to-Play

38

United Still Wants American. The Airline Industry Is Bleeding.

39

The World Cup Was Supposed to Save U.S. Tourism. It's Not Going as Planned.

40

Sonder's Founder Just Came Back...With an AI Travel Startup

41

One Guy Used AI to Pull 881,000 Fares and Broke the Travel Industry's Brain

42

Two Billionaires Just Quietly Took Over Las Vegas

43

United's CEO Just Buried JetBlue in Public — and He's Not Done

44

Hotels Spent 10 Years Fighting OTAs — Then AI Showed Up and Changed Everything

45

Ryanair Just Made Every Other Airline Look Bad

46

Gulf Travelers Are Searching but Not Booking, and Brand USA Wants Canadians Back

47

Expedia Is Rethinking AI, and Google Is Coming for Hotel Bookings

48

NYC Hotel Workers Land a Historic Deal, and It's Going to Cost You

49

Americans Are Desperate to Travel, but Not Everyone Can Afford To

50

Travel Inflation Is Surging Faster Than the Economy

51

Travel Demand Is Splitting the World Into Winners and Losers

52

TikTok Is Officially a Travel Booking Platform

53

Spirit’s Shutdown Is Making Airfare Pain Even Worse

54

Google’s Grip on Travel Faces a New Lawsuit as Tripadvisor Bets on AI

55

Airlines Burn Through $5 Billion as Disney Makes More From Fewer Visitors

56

Spirit’s Collapse Sparks Airline Grab as Uber Expands in Travel

57

Spirit Airlines Collapses as World Cup Demand and Loyalty Face Reality Check

58

Uber Enters Hotel Booking as AI Debate Shapes Travel’s Future

59

Asia Is Overtaking Travel as Airlines and Luxury Brands Adapt

60

Budget Airlines Seek Bailout as U.S. Travel Slump Hits Rentals