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Travel has spent decades removing friction. Steve Case thinks we may have gone too far.
As AI makes travel faster and more automated, the Revolution Chairman and AOL Founder argues that some of the industry’s biggest opportunities may lie in the human experiences technology
Lindblad Expeditions is buying a 60% stake in White Desert, a luxury Antarctic travel company, and Echo Charlie, a new luxury adventure operator flying a fully refurbished DC-3, in a $67 million deal — the expedition cruise line’s largest acquisition yet.
“Our business model has
The travel creator economy has a money problem.
Creators increasingly create the desire to travel, and the travel industry captures the booking somewhere else, weeks later, on a different device, through a different channel, with almost nobody involved able to see the journey
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In Europe, Google's move to satisfy regulators — by stripping back its own travel-search features, and siloing aggregators and suppliers — extend to AI Mode too. Meanwhile, Meta's new AI agent seems to be freewheeling it. With only a single
Accor is considering acquisitions and other partnerships to accelerate its expansion in India after its planned deal with Treebo Hospitality Ventures fell apart, Duncan O’Rourke, the group’s CEO for Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, told Skift.
The French hotel group is
