Travel in city Kansas City

Booking.com is back for the third year in a row with a Super Bowl commercial, this time in 2024 with the ad starring Tina Fey and Glenn Close. The commercial has cameos from actors Jane Krakowski and Jack McBrayer, both with credits, as well.

It’s Super Bowl season and the booking calendars know it. 

Picking a vacation destination is always a tough choice.

After a record-breaking 115.1 million viewers tuned in for last year's Super Bowl, companies across all industries, including travel, are putting up big bucks—$7 million for 30 seconds of air time to be exact—to get their brands in front of America's eyeballs this February.

Southwest Airlines customers can now book the low-cost carrier's flight schedule through November 2, 2024.

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour made headlines even before it began — by overwhelming booking platform Ticketmaster and drawing attention even from the U.S. Senate. 

Joanna Fantozzi contributed to a previous version of this story.

Taylor Swift has set pretty much every record in the book this year, thanks to her unprecedented Eras Tour. The three and a half hour extravaganza covers 17 years of her music and fans are traveling around the world to experience it in person.

For the Swifties that couldn’t make it to the Eras Tour, you could trade friendship bracelets at sea, instead. A travel agency is planning a Taylor Swift-themed cruise that will launch from Miami in the fall of 2024.

Good morning from Skift. It’s Thursday, October 26. Here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour made headlines even before it began — by overwhelming booking platform Ticketmaster and drawing attention even from the U.S. Senate. 

When he bought Twitter in October 2022, Elon Musk’s to-do list included giving Jack Sweeney the boot.

This as-told-to story is based on a conversation with Kylee Nelson, a 34-year-old travel nurse who's been to over 40 countries and runs the blog Passports and Preemies. She shares what she experienced while living in the Middle East. It's been edited for length and clarity. 

Prosecutors have dismissed charges against actor Marlon Wayans related to a June dispute with a United Airlines employee after the comedian said he was targeted because of his race.

 In our 5 Shops series, we’ll point you in the direction of our favorite independent shops across some of the world's best cities. From food markets to bookshops, vintage and homegrown design, we've found a diverse and exciting mix of local retailers where you can pick up one-of-a-kind pieces.

Airshare’s acquisition of Wheels Up’s private jet management business closed over the weekend. It sends 90 airplanes and 300 personnel to the Kansas City-based operator, which already had 56 managed and fractional aircraft in its fleet. After the sale, Wheels Up still has 215 airframes, including 75 King Air turboprops, 52 super midsize jets it can deploy for transcontinental flights, and 61 light jets. For both companies, Wheels Up the fourth-largest operator based on fractional and charter flight hours, and Airshare, ranked 11th, it marks a new chapter.

When you think of Paris-based hospitality company Accor, brands like Sofitel, Raffles and Fairmont are likely the first things that come to mind.

Picture it: You battled your way through summer holiday traffic going to the airport, and waited in what felt like the world’s longest security line, only to have your flight diverted two hours in, resulting in your flight reaching its destination three hours later than planned?

About the time when stores start to put out their Halloween displays and Americans ponder their Halloween-season plans, America’s best mega-haunted attractions put the finishing touches on their year-round work of planning and enhancing their attractions. The haunts will soon spring to life to “scare them to death” with the latest and greatest fear-based entertainment. America Haunts, the national association for the most proven and prestigious commercial haunts, reminds the adventurous that the season goes by fast and to buy tickets in advance. There aren’t many open nights for the undead to get their fright-fill fun within the season. Most haunts fall between four to nine weekends, plus a few open weekdays, including Halloween night, Tuesday, October 31.

On a hot sunny day this summer, San Antonio became the seventh US city–and the first in Texas–to team up with Google Arts and Culture, launching a global platform dedicated to sharing the city’s rich history, elevated gastronomy and vibrant arts and culture with the world.

Two months. That’s how long Southwest Airlines expects there to be an impact on bookings from its massive holiday meltdown that disrupted millions of travelers over Christmas and New Years.