Skift Take: Aven is embedding MCP into the core system for thousands of hotels. It’s an early signal of how the newly independent company plans to position its infrastructure for AI-driven discovery.
Skift Take: In today’s lodging industry, any operating function that takes attention away from optimizing the customer experience can become a competitive disadvantage. A new report highlights why lodging tax compliance should be a top priority.
Skift Take: The probe puts hotel benchmarking and revenue data tools back under the regulatory spotlight, testing where market intelligence ends and improper coordination begins.
Skift Take: The moment an AI agent handles the complexity of travel, the intermediation layer will have to answer why it exists — or at least why it commands the margin it does.
Skift Take: India's immediate west is now engulfed in an international armed conflict. Even as operations have partially resumed, a prolonged escalation will not only threaten India's connectivity, but will also have a sharp effect on its growing aviation sector.