Category Travel & Leisure

IndiGo is India’s largest airline by market share, but CEO Pieter Elbers stressed the global expansion on the 2025 earnings call Wednesday. “When I joined IndiGo three years ago, we had around 25 international destinations. We closed financial year 2025…

While browsing a few popular world lists, we realized something wild: we’ve been to every one of the New Seven Wonders, and most of the natural and ancient ones too. As full-time travelers, we’ve made it a mission to experience…

This sponsored content was created in collaboration with a Skift partner. Economic uncertainty is roiling financial markets, prompting fuzzy leisure travel forecasts for the remainder of 2025. Meanwhile, the outlook for corporate travel remains cautiously optimistic.  According to a 2025…

Asia’s outbound travel is back, but it looks very different across the region’s three most important markets: India, China, and Japan. Skift Research’s latest report, Asia Rising: Inside the Minds of 2025’s Most Valuable Travelers, unpacks what’s driving these markets,…

Travel technology company Sabre is increasing its focus on India, and leading the push is Samual Machado, who returned to Sabre last year to lead its India and South Asia operations.  The company’s investment plan includes hiring from India’s top…

Good morning from Skift. It’s Wednesday, May 21. Here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today. Google unveiled a series of travel-related AI upgrades at its developer conference on Tuesday, writes Travel Technology Reporter Justin Dawes.…

The Indian hotel sector is expected to cross INR 1 trillion ($11.7 billion) by the end of the current financial year and touch INR 1.1 trillion ($13 billion) by 2026-27, according to risk management and monitoring platform Rubix Data Sciences.…

Delta Air Lines officially resumed service to Tel Aviv on Tuesday after suspending service to the city following a May 4 missile attack at Ben Gurion Airport.  The carrier said it made the decision to resume service following an “extensive…

Google announced several AI enhancements during its annual I/O developer conference Tuesday, with travel-related demos for many of them. It’s the biggest travel-related AI update since last year’s conference, where Google announced a trip planner for the Gemini chatbot, which…

The new Hotels.com AI-powered chatbot is simple to use, but the errors make it unlikely to be especially helpful at this early stage. That’s what our results showed after testing the updated Hotels.com app. Expedia Group last week released the…