Travel-centric data platform OAG released its Megahubs 2024 report, showing Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) as the region’s most connected airport. The Megahubs report is the definitive ranking of the 50 most globally-connected airports in the world, three of which are located within the Asia-Pacific. Aside from KLIA, other Asian hubs that made it into […]
(RNS) — Since Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee for president last month, televangelist Paula White, long a prominent Donald Trump supporter, has been curiously silent on the contest, at least in public. The reason may have to do with White’s current constituency in her Florida megachurch. Before President Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential […]
Neatly made hotel bed with 4 pillows. A new report by Hotels.com outlines how travel is changing in the weirdest ways, from leaving behind multi-million dollar watches to requesting a full bath of Evian water. With travel back at pre-pandemic levels, hotel guest demands are shifting beyond normal room service – but it’s nothing hospitality […]
Guesty, a property management software platform for the short-term rental and hospitality industry, has launched two new artificial intelligence-powered features -an AI Assistant website builder and ReviewSmart AI. In July the company launched an AI tool to automate guest communications – ReplyAI. Guesty’s AI Assistant enables property managers to create websites using generative AI to […]
(Image source: Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast/Getty) Back in the pre-pandemic days of 2018-2019 when I lived in Lusaka, Zambia — a country that was declared a “Christian nation” by Zambia’s then-President, Frederick Chiluba, in 1991 — it was evident that evangelical (particularly Pentecostal) Christianity made such a dent on the country’s culture that the lines […]
GMR Airports Infrastructure Limited has entered into an agreement with Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide to acquire Fraport’s 10% stake in the Delhi International Airport. With this, GMR will hold a 74% equity stake in the airport, while the remaining 26% stake will continue to be with Airports Authority of India (AAI). GMR is […]
The new hotel is a collaboration between Japan’s Agora Hospitalities Co, Ltd and Dorsett Hospitality International TDM Editor Agora Hospitalities Co, Ltd and Dorsett Hospitality International announced that they are jointly introducing a new brand, Dorsett by Agora, the first property of which is slated to open in spring of next year. Located just […]
(RNS) — I had not thought of him in many years. But when I learned recently of the death of Rabbi Michael Lerner, a left-wing Jewish activist and author, at the age of 81, I winced and I smiled and I shed a small tear. I winced, because once upon a time, we had been […]
The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate how a Delta Air Lines Airbus A350 hit a smaller CRJ-900, resulting in the tail nearly being sheared off. Aviation authorities are looking for answers after an aircraft collision caused the tail of an Endeavour Air CRJ-900 to get knocked off. Delta […]
At one point in the not-so-distant past, travel agents were the primary travel architects, creating itineraries, making reservations and mailing paper boarding passes to clients. And then the internet opened up access to the world and reshaped the fundamentals of travel – how we book, certainly, but also when we travel, where we stay, and […]
