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Guests can check-in early, purchase upsells and cut their own room key using the intuitive, streamlined kiosk.

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Q4 Travel Market Report predicts 0.8% drop in global airfares and 6.8% increase in hotel rates.

Etihad Airways will fly its much-loved A380 on the popular Abu Dhabi – New York JFK route from 22 April, 2024

In the spirit of holiday giving, we want to know: Do you have an expiring airline upgrade, drink voucher, lounge pass or another travel benefit you won't be using that you could share with a fellow TPG reader before it expires?

Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines made a big announcement over the weekend—they entered into an agreement under which Alaska will purchase Hawaiian for $1.9 billion.

Jill Warren doesn’t mince words when it comes to the role bicycling plays in climate change: “The world needs to urgently decarbonize transport to meet climate goals, and enabling more cycling is a quick, affordable and reliable way to do this, while at the same time improving people’s health and lives.”

On Wednesday night, I opened the United mobile app and noticed that the upgrade list went on. And on. And on.

It's a new, or neo, day for United.

Some of the 30 million passengers expected to fly domestically over this Thanksgiving holiday may be stunned by what’s available to eat and drink 30,000 feet up in the sky.

The ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, which erupted in early October, has halted international tourism to Israel and severely blunted travel to neighboring countries in a ripple effect spreading across the entire Middle East. While the slowdown in international visitors is only one of the war’s economic repercussions in the region, it poses a significant threat to the economies of Egypt, Jordan and other nations heavily dependent on tourism and has swiftly reversed a banner year of travel in the Middle East.

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I have traveled the world solo: I've hiked in Africa by myself; faced a humpback whale head-on in Australia as the only person in the water; and been lost for hours at a time in countries where I don’t speak the language. I'm used to dealing with the countless jabs aimed at solo travelers—a taxi driver needling about why I am not married with a wife waiting at home (I’m single and gay), or hotel reception wistfully informing me that only double rooms are available (as if I’m incapable of sleeping next to an empty bed without being deeply triggered). It takes a lot more to phase me at this point, yet few travel experiences have ever irked me so badly as when I was recently forced to change seats on a packed airplane in order to accommodate a couple.

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One way or another, you probably won’t be renting an Airbnb or VRBO on Maui anytime soon.

The UK Short-Term Accommodation Association (UKSTAA) conducted new research that identified nearly 2 million homes that local authorities consider “deliverable,” with as many as 1.5 million of them in the next five years. 

Air New Zealand is celebrating Cyber Monday with a major sale that has flights to Auckland starting as low as $1,033.

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Tourism’s transformation to low-carbon operations is our compass, let’s make Net Zero our destination by 2050 – a journey for prosperity and a healthy Earth

The European cities with the largest pipelines at the close of the quarter are led by London with 79 projects/14,078 rooms and Istanbul, up 20% by projects YOY with a record 48 projects, accounting for 7,936 rooms. Next is Lisbon, with 37 projects/4,070 rooms, then Dublin with 34 projects and a record 6,492 rooms, and Dusseldorf with 30 projects/5,465 rooms.

While the crowds bring their wallets and appetites, giving local economies a boost, they also create challenges. Visitors have to sleep somewhere, and short-term rentals (STRs) have become increasingly popular in the era of Airbnb and Vrbo. For local hosts, who transform just about any rentable space to supplement their income, the events are an opportunity.