Skift Take: Booking.com wants more of India’s travel wallet, not just its hotel bookings. Payments and business travel could help it get there, but local platforms will make that a harder sell.
Skift Take: Service Properties Trust hired Sonesta to operate 68 of the hotels it owns. But an unsolicited offer for those hotels has created uncertainty. Meanwhile, Sonesta has cut corporate staff.
Skift Take: The transatlantic corridor is seeing durable demand, and companies will have opportunities to gain a competitive advantage by deftly adapting to competing shifts simultaneously.