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When Luxury and Wellness Travel Collide

January is an important time for wellness — it’s when people make health resolutions, start detox plans, and brainstorm travel in the year ahead.

The Cruise Industry Will Soon Face Its Strictest Pollution Standard Yet: Can Anyone Enforce It?

While the travel industry's focus is squarely on carbon emmisions, cruising has another, perhaps even more urgent and surprising problem: air po…

Carbon Offsets Mask Aviation Industry’s Lack of Green Alternatives

The airline industry is facing an environmental reckoning. Manufacturers and carriers are still hooked on kerosene with alternative biofuels yet…

Scandinavian Airlines Goes Local With Farm-to-Tray-Table Menus

In 2017 SAS unveiled its New Nordic by SAS concept, introducing passengers on some 80,000 short-haul Scandinavian and European flights to season…

Who’s Leading the Next Wave of Biz Travel Innovation

Voilà, here it is, the latest edition of the Skift Corporate Travel Innovators List. We put our brains together to highlight some of the people…

Tourism Websites Are Being Redesigned to Get Way More Personal

Tourism boards ask a lot of their websites: They must include updated, accurate information. They have to show off a destination in the best lig…

Minor Hotels CEO: Why Hyatt's Interest Was an Embarrassment

Minor Hotels made a number of headlines this year when it announced its intent to buy up Chinese conglomerate HNA's shares in Spain's NH Hotel G…

Airlines Recoup $500 Million in Blocked Funds From African Countries

The International Air Transport Association is finally making headway in resolving the issue of blocked funds, which has left airlines flying in…

Minor Hotels Founder Offers Lessons in Bottom-Up Entrepreneurship

William Heinecke, 69, is an American-born billionaire who has been operating businesses in Thailand since 1963. After founding his first busines…

UK Cruise Agency Buys German Rival to Create ‘European Leader’

Cruise.co, a UK-based online travel company, has paid $29.5 million (€25 million) for rival Kreuzfahrtberater.de as it looks to take advantage o…

Business Travel Spending Is Expected to Gain Steam Globally by 2018

Spending on business travel around the world puttered along in 2016, rising a less-than-expected 3.5 percent to $1.26 trillion, according to a n…

The U.S. Laptop Ban Is Winding Down — Skift Corporate Travel Innovation Report

The Skift Corporate Travel Innovation Report is our weekly newsletter focused on the future of corporate travel, the big fault lines of disrupti…

The Role of Convention Bureaus in Industry Research Development — Meetings Innovation Report

The Future of Meetings & Events Our feature story this week focuses on the German Convention Bureau's strategy to differentiate itself in the Eu…