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Good morning from Skift. It’s Tuesday, October 15, 2024, and here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today. 

The traditional territories in Alberta are home to many First Nations, Métis, and Inuit who have called these territories home for time immemorial. We respectfully acknowledge the diverse histories, cultures, and territories of Treaty 6, 7, 8, 4, and 10, as well as the homelands of the Métis, the 8 Métis Settlements, the 6 Métis Regions of the Métis Nation of Alberta.

This summer, my wife, Cree, and I went to Dublin to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary. We chose it over more exotic destinations because it made sense to us: I’m a book critic and she’s a writer. How could we not go to Dublin, perhaps the most literature-soaked city in the world? The literary ghosts still stalk the medieval streetscapes — so many ghosts that they collide into one another and seem to make up a spectral and talkative rugby team.

Rome could soon launch a ticketing system to enter one of its most iconic sites.

Winter weather in Western Colorado can be fickle—except on Aspen Highlands mountain, where every day at noon and two there's a 100 percent chance of Champagne showers. During my first (and only) visit to the famously hedonistic high-altitude Cloud Nine Alpine Bistro, it took mere minutes for the man next to me to climb up on his table, put on his Gucci goggles, pull off his shirt, and begin spraying Veuve Clicquot across the room, eliciting cheers and an impromptu dance party.

Large swaths of Florida were recovering on Friday after Hurricane Milton swept through as a major storm with airports and theme parks starting to reopen.

The golden age of air travel is long gone. Glamorous Pan American Airways flight attendants dressed in Evan-Picones’s iconic uniforms no longer click heels at Idlewild Airport (now JFK). The Concorde, which once whisked the fashionable jet set between London and New York in under three hours, now lies dormant beside runway 27L at London Heathrow.

China’s travel sector is making a strong comeback, following a challenging period during the pandemic.

In August, I hopped on a 20-minute ferry from Singapore to explore Lazarus Island, one of the country's eight Southern Islands.

Despite looming recession fears, the travel industry continues to demonstrate strong growth, according to the Skift Travel Health Index for August 2024. The index showed a 9% increase from a year ago, led by the Asia Pacific region (up 13%) and North America (up 8%).

This weekend’s astonishing solar activity was the opening act for another interstellar marvel: the Draconid meteor shower, which peaks late on Oct. 7 into Oct. 8. The Draconids aren’t as celebrated as other meteor showers, like the Perseids, but this year’s event does align with a dim waxing crescent moon that sets around 9 p.m. local time. That means there’s no lunar light to wash out the show. And, if you watch from adark-sky perch, you could catch up to 10 soaring meteors per hour. Here’s everything you need to know about catching the 2024 Draconid meteor shower, including where to look in the night sky and how to improve your shooting-star odds.

Oct 6, 2024 • 6 min read