Category Travel & Leisure

EasyGroup, the company behind Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou’s ‘easy’ family of brands, has agreed to sell budget hotel chain EasyHotel to real estate investment management company Tristan Capital Partners. Tristan is taking over EasyHotel’s outstanding share capital for €196.13 million (about…

JetBlue Ventures may be changing hands, but CEO Amy Burr expects the firm’s investment priorities to remain largely the same. That’s because the new owner of the venture capital firm, Sky Leasing, still has an interest in improving the airline…

Upstart regional airline Air Kerala is India’s latest ultra-low-cost carrier and hopes to begin flying by the end of June after receiving its IATA flight code, “KD.” While it will initially operate domestically, the plan is to expand internationally, especially…

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will begin enforcing a law Wednesday that requires travelers to have a Real ID to board domestic flights. Currently, over 80% of passengers at TSA checkpoints are using a Real ID or other acceptable form…

Vietnam’s fastest-growing airline has announced a major new joint venture in Kazakhstan. The partnership with Qazaq Air will create a new airline brand known as Vietjet Qazaqstan. The deal represents only the second agreement of its kind after the creation…

Hilton said Tuesday it plans to grow its presence in India by 10 times over the next 10 years. Right now, Hilton has 32 hotels up and running in India, with 29 more in the works. Over the next couple…

Michelle Jie Gao Booking.com Regional Manager Before joining the travel industry in 2009, Michelle Jie Gao worked in public service jobs at ICC China Banking Commission and TnJ Codev Consultant. She started as the Manager of Hotel CRM Solutions with…

As the largest waterfall in the world, Victoria Falls needs little in the way of introduction – over a million tourists and thrill-seekers flock here every year. Even to the uninitiated, the name Victoria Falls conjures up visions of thundering…

Springboard Hospitality and Hotel Equities have signed a strategic merger agreement, creating a combined entity that will manage more than 250 properties across the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean, and Latin America, the companies told Skift. The private companies didn’t disclose…

The way people discover and book travel is undergoing a seismic shift — and social media is at the center of it. Skift Research’s new report, Social Commerce in Travel: Opportunities and Consumer Trends, reveals that platforms such as TikTok,…