This Resort in the Maldives Offers an Innovative Amenity for Color-Blind Guests

Few things in life are better than getting a great gift from someone you care about — especially when it's the gift of travel. Travel is a gift that keeps on giving and lasts way longer than expensive skin care products or kitchen gadgets that end up untouched in a random drawer. In fact, a recent survey from Hyatt found that 85% of consumers would rather receive a trip or vacation than a physical gift this holiday season.

India is firmly in the sights of a rapidly expanding Saudi low-cost airline. Flyadeal has ambitious plans to more than double the size of its fleet during the next four years. This will see it transform from a largely domestic airline to one with much greater international connectivity.

Nov 20, 2024 • 9 min read

United Airlines has brought back its popular discount for college-aged travelers — offering generous savings on select flights to Europe and India with no blackout dates.

The third annual Skift Global Forum East will bring several travel executives to Dubai this week to discuss the state of the industry in the region. What are the major trends in the Middle East’s travel industry?

Goa is not getting enough foreign tourists: Official Goa Tourism figures show that foreign arrivals in 2023 weren’t even half of 2019 levels: Just 450,000 visitors versus 937,000.

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In just the first 10 months of this year, Indian arrivals to the U.S. have already exceeded the total for 2023, according to data from the U.S. International Trade Administration.

“I first came to Rajasthan around 2012 and completely fell in love with the people, the way of life, and the colors,” says the English fashion designer Kim Jones, who has remained captivated by the indigos, shocking pinks, and oranges of the Indian state ever since. “I've always had a fascination with heritage craft, and that first trip inspired a love of Indian textiles and embroideries.” For Jones, sources of such inspiration extend to Rajasthani architecture—the palaces and the people who built them—as well as a wider “innate sense of style” found across India, “mixing utility, formality, and immaculate tailoring.” After a string of return trips, Jones found that hints of those design sensibilities and meticulous attention to detail had trickled down into his own work—accessories in particular, in which he says “the intricacy of maharaja style is reimagined into a modern graphic look.” Here, Jones shares the places he never leaves off his itinerary, including the spot for regional dishes like murgh tikka, his favorite market to source tie-dyed textiles, and a tented camp in the wilderness.

The Skift Aviation Forum this week will feature several airline industry executives discussing the sector’s future and its most pressing issues. So it’s a good time to ask: What are the biggest challenges for the airline industry?

In the now faded photo: my mum, demure in an off-white, gold-trimmed sari, hands half-hidden in a swirl of henna; my dad, suit wrinkled, sporting Jackie O sunglasses borrowed from my auntie to block out the Mombasa sun. It's August 4, 1973, their wedding day. I stand in the same spot 50 years later, under the whitewashed arches of Tamarind, then and now “the best seafood restaurant on the whole coast of Kenya,” Mohamed, my taxi driver, tells me categorically. The views from here have not changed much in the last half century. Across the glinting blue of the creek, on Mombasa Island, colonial mansions hide behind a tangle of trees, and the boxy flat-roofed buildings of Old Town, discolored by the salt-laden Indian Ocean air, press up intimately against each other. Wood fishing boats bob in quiet inlets where my parents once spent weekends learning to water-ski.