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Airbnb Sells IP to AI Lab Owned by Its CEO and CTO
Airbnb’s CEO and CTO both own part of the lab buying its IP, but the filing gives shareholders little detail on what changed hands.
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MakeMyTrip Buys Into Daily Commutes With Quick Ride Stake
As its air business softens, MakeMyTrip is pushing harder into everything else. Quick Ride gives it a product people use on a random Thursday, not just before a holiday. The test is whether those commuters become MakeMyTrip travelers.
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Airbnb Outpaces Rivals With Its Fastest Revenue Growth in 3 Years
Airbnb is making its rivals look relatively sluggish. Is it affordability that's kickstarting demand across regions?
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Airbnb CEO: Our Specialized AI Agents Will Handle ‘Every Vertical in Travel’
There's been speculation for years about whether Airbnb would launch flights. Such small-minded speculation: Airbnb intends to use specialized AI agents to do every travel vertical. Airbnb Cruise, anyone?
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Tripadvisor Cuts Jobs, Outgoing CEO Says Experiences Overhaul Fell Short
The Tripadvisor-Viator experiences business has long had a "Tripadvisor" brand problem. The consolidation of their teams didn't work, and both experiences revenue and profits fell in the third quarter.
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Tripadvisor Announces CEO and CFO Exit 16 Months Into Starboard’s Activist Push
You can expect the board to supercharge a sales process or to pursue other strategic alternatives as Goldberg exits.
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Trip.com Group Builds a Bigger Travel Business Around Concerts
The concert might be the reason to travel, but Trip.com Group wants to make sure it's not the only thing fans spend money on. Tickets and hotel rooms are just the opening act.
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Expedia Expects Attractive Deals From Meta’s Muse and Google’s AI Overviews
Will Expedia's advertising on Meta's Muse and Google AI Overviews be the new Google Search? Ariane Gorin is hopeful, citing Expedia proven track record in these sorts of deals. On the other hand, in years' past Expedia officials complained about the high cost of Google marketing.
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Why Scaling AI Agents Is Harder Than Building Them
Scaling AI agents is less about the model than the systems, talent, and infrastructure around it. As travel companies move from pilots into production, they must decide which capabilities differentiate the business and which are better handled by a specialist.
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Booking.com Bets It Can Close the Trips That ChatGPT and Gemini Start
AI may own the start of the trip, but Booking.com is betting trust and payments decide who gets the booking. Its experience with superapps, where daily use never became travel spending, suggests generative chatbots may face the same problem.
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Booking Takes $1 Billion Hit Over Possible FTC Settlement, Sees ‘Mixed’ Travel Market
The Middle East conflict and higher airfares continue to make their mark industrywide.
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How Travel Credit Cards Are Becoming Full-Trip Companions: Watch Video
Travel credit cards are moving well beyond points and booking. At Skift Global Forum, Capital One Travel’s Sarah Moore said the opportunity lies in remaining useful throughout the trip by combining context, experiences, technology, and trust to build deeper relationships with travelers.
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Why We’ve Been Looking at the Hotel Brands vs. OTAs War All Wrong
The hotel industry’s distribution war has an overlooked third party: the owner. New questions about AI, loyalty and customer acquisition could make that imbalance even more consequential.
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Skift Commerce Summit 2026: Five Decisions in the Room
AI agents are here. Travel isn't ready. Decisions made today will determine who controls the booking, the customer relationship, and the economics of travel commerce.
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Vrbo Launches Reserve Now, Pay Later — With a Twist on Airbnb’s Approach
Paying nothing up-front has been one of Airbnb's clearest growth levers. Will Vrbo get the substantial lift that Airbnb got when it introduced Reserve Now, Pay Later last year?
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Airbnb.org Aims for 1 Million Free Nights a Year, Funded Partly by a Dime a Booking
Is 10 cents per booking enough of a contribution? Well, it's more than Booking.com and Vrbo donate per stay.
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Airbnb to Require Temporary Phone Numbers for Large Hosts and Guests
Airbnb says the temporary phone numbers are meant to protect privacy. But the change also makes it harder for property managers to turn Airbnb guests into direct bookers.
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MakeMyTrip Uses an Air Travel Dip to Reach Beyond Flights
The fight in Indian online travel is moving away from flights and hotels toward the supply nobody has fully digitized yet.
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Airbnb’s Amex Travel Deal Puts It Inside a Key Expedia B2B Channel
On paper, Airbnb's exclusive short-term rental partnership with Amex Travel didn't change anything for Expedia because it wasn't supplying vacation rentals to Amex Travel. But Expedia's Vrbo has begun supplying vacation rentals to other B2B partners, and now the Airbnb deal blocks that potential expansion.
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They Just Booked the Hotel Room — But They’re Already Looking for a Better Deal
With 41% of travelers still price-checking after they book, the hotel and flight reservations are now only one part of a longer, more dynamic — and more provisional — process.