Category Travel & Leisure

Skift reported last year that the hospitality boom in India was being driven by smaller cities. Now the industry is going even further afield.  This week, IHG Hotels & Resorts signed a Holiday Inn Express-branded hotel in Uttar Pradesh’s Hapur,…

Thailand’s safety rating among Chinese travelers is now lower than it was during Covid, according to Dragon Trail’s latest Chinese Traveler Sentiment Report shared exclusively with Skift. While most regions enjoy steadily improving safety ratings, Southeast Asia stands out for…

India’s tourism ministry operates on a chronically underfunded budget and even the limited resources it receives are routinely left unspent. In the 2025–26 fiscal year, the ministry was allocated only INR 25.4 billion ($298 million). A recent Parliamentary standing committee…

Airbus has pushed back its plans for an electric commercial aircraft by up to a decade due to supply challenges with green hydrogen, the company told Skift. The project, launched in 2020 and backed by French government funding, aimed to…

Many prominent travel and tourism industry interests increased their spending on federal-level lobbying during early 2025, coinciding with Donald Trump’s return to the White House and a new Congress controlled by Republicans. A Skift analysis of new federal lobbying disclosure…

Thailand finds itself scaling back ambitions and recalibrating its 2025 tourism strategy. It is partly the result of softening demand, regional safety concerns, and shifting geopolitical relations. The country will be revising its international tourism revenue targets down from THB…

When I was growing up, I wanted to be an archeologist. I loved history (and still do), and the thought of uncovering temples and tombs in jungles excited me. I used to read books on Greek and Roman history and…

Japanese hospitality group Hoshino Resorts announced on Tuesday that it’s launching a new hotel brand, seeking to capitalize on Japan’s surging nature tourism sector amid record-breaking visitor arrivals. The new Lucy brand, which will debut this September with its first…

As the CEO of Crescentrating and HalalTrip, Fazal Bahardeen has spent the last 16 years building a space where Muslim travelers don’t have to choose between their values and their adventures. From launching the influential Global Muslim Travel Index to…

Through clunky mergers or simply the test of time, airlines become much more complex as they age. Diverse fleets make for a patchwork of different passenger propositions. Stepping onboard could mean a flagship cabin or something better suited to an…