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AI-Driven Surge Pricing Comes to Airfares and Hotel Rates

It’s bad enough when you need an Uber just as the ball game is ending across town, and a $24 ride jumps to $68. But now that $549 airline ticket to London can leap to $849 just as quickly, when the AI brain powering the airline’s revenue management system gets word that a Bad Bunny…

May 29, 202561Views

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Travel spending from overseas tourists may fall $8.5 billion in 2025

South_agency | E+ | Getty Images Spending from foreign visitors to the U.S. is poised to fall by $8.5 billion this year as negative perceptions tied to trade and immigration policy lead overseas tourists to look elsewhere, according to a research note published by Oxford Economics. The spending decline, which works out to a drop…

May 28, 202561Views

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V&A East Storehouse, Where You Can Touch V&A’s Treasures,…

Tim Reeve, the deputy director of London's world-famous V&A applied arts institution, says that most of the world's biggest museums only have space to display about 3% of their collections. The other 97% languishes in warehouses, waiting to be chosen for display or examined by scholars. This year, the V&A—which was established in 1852 during…

May 28, 202556Views

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Air Travelers Who Stand Up Immediately After Landing Now…

We’ll concede that one of the most difficult times to remain patient during air travel is in that seemingly interminable stretch between when the plane lands and when you can get up from your seat. Something about being so close to the end of the flight really makes those final minutes drag, especially if you…

May 28, 202590Views

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What’s it like to live and work in the Maldives, Bali, Cayman Islands

From the Maldives to Bali to the Cayman Islands, Marc LeBlanc and Laura Robinson have lived and worked in places that most people dream of visiting. They work in the hospitality industry — a journey that LeBlanc, who is Canadian, began at 16 years old when he accepted a job as a dishwasher at a…

May 27, 202566Views

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This $10 Item Could Keep You from Getting Sick on a Cruise…

A purported symbol of luxury that turns out to be a source of contamination may sound like a metaphor for critiquing society. But it's also an actual thing on cruise ships, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the fall, the federal agency released the results of an investigation…

May 27, 202570Views

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Southwest Airlines starts charging many flyers to check bags this week

Passengers check in for Southwest Airlines flights at Chicago Midway International Airport on Feb. 18, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images Set your alarm. Southwest Airlines customers have only one day to go before the company starts charging to check bags for the first time in more than half…

May 26, 202575Views

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Are reviews on Tripadvisor fake? Here’s how many it found in 2024

Around 8% of the 31.1 million reviews submitted to Tripadvisor in 2024 were fake, according to the company's "Transparency Report 2025." That's more than twice the number detected in 2022, according to company reports. But that doesn't mean the number of fake reviews on the site doubled, said Becky Foley, vice president and head of…

May 25, 202565Views

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United Airlines reaches labor deal with flight attendants, union says

United Airline flight attendants picketed outside Terminal B at Logan Airport Thursday morning seeking a new contract. John Tlumacki | Boston Globe | Getty Images United Airlines reached an "industry-leading" tentative labor deal for its 28,000 flight attendants, their union said Friday. The deal includes "40% of total economic improvements" in the…

May 23, 202562Views

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Boeing, DOJ reach deal to avoid prosecution over 737 Max crashes

Ethiopian Federal policemen stand at the scene of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 plane crash, near the town of Bishoftu, southeast of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia March 11, 2019. Tiksa Negeri | Reuters The U.S. Justice Department said Friday that it has reached a deal with Boeing that will allow the aircraft…

May 23, 202560Views