Skift Take: Franchise agreements, like casinos, tend to favor the house. Now, as a generation of hotel contracts begin to expire, some owners are deciding to walk away from the table.
Skift Take: Julie Coker is leaving NYC Tourism after less than two years. She needs to turn around sluggish inbound tourism and needs to move fast: Los Angeles is hosting the 2028 Olympic Games.
Skift Take: Going into what is expected to be a busy July 4 travel season, airlines are cutting capacity as they hope to hold onto their pricing gains.
Skift Take: Delta has spent much of 2026 building up its presence in Asia partly in an attempt to gain more market share in the Pacific from its major rival in the region, United.
Skift Take: Trip.com’s financials are the clearest single document in travel for understanding what “China risk” actually looks like when it shows up in a balance sheet.