Category Travel & Leisure

Air India has signed an agreement with Air New Zealand to introduce a codeshare partnership on 16 routes spanning India, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand. Indian travelers from Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Chennai will soon be able to connect via…

The Indian government has approved the development of 116 new tourist destinations across India. These destinations will be developed at a total cost of nearly INR 41 billion ($474 million) in partnership with state governments.  Forty of the projects will…

A former CNBC and MSNBC host and serial entrepreneur acquired hotel-booking site Reservations.com this week. Dylan Ratigan, the buyer and new CEO, confirmed that the deal closed Monday after Skift received a tip about the deal. Ratigan said he was…

Boeing chief financial officer Brian West said Wednesday that the plane maker most likely won’t see “material near-term impact” from tariffs. “On the supply chain, on the input side, for us, we don’t see material near-term impact,” West said at…

Airbnb has hit back after Vrbo placed billboards near Airbnb headquarters and elsewhere several weeks ago that said Vrbo’s a “cooler” brand. “Vrbo just spent millions on ads that appear to be as confused as they are desperate, even giving…

Sandals Resorts International has renewed efforts to sell itself, and hopes to fetch between $6 billion and $7 billion, according to a report Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal. The Jamaican-based luxury all-inclusive operator, which markets couples-only vacations across the…

Thailand’s luxury hotels are still experiencing a surge in interest from HBO’s The White Lotus.  Minor International revealed a 104% year-over-year increase in website traffic for the three Anantara properties that served as filming locations: Anantara Lawana Koh Samui Resort,…

IHG has opened its first net zero hotel, which it says is the first of its kind in Western Europe. Located near the airport in Exeter, UK, Voco Zeal Exeter Science Park has 142 rooms and runs entirely on renewable energy.…

As a child on holiday in the Lake District, I remember learning to count to ten in the old Cumbrian dialect—the same rhythmic numbers that shepherds have used for generations to tally their flock. “Yan, tan, tethera” is “one, two,…

While the inaugural Skift India Forum in 2024 focused on “celebrating India,” the focus this year was on the challenges. “India is now a force domestically as well as outbound,” Skift CEO and Founder Rafat Ali said Tuesday at the…