Few companies other than activist investor Elliott Management expressed a serious interest in acquiring Travelport. Elliott twice lost potential private equity partners after they reviewed Travelport's books. The deal price is underwhelming, and that's a signal that some things haven't been going the company's way.

These high-level individuals will take part in lively, engaging, and strategic conversations with Skift Editors as we attempt to define the future of responsible travel.

Expedia Group is arguably — OK, clearly — not "The World's Travel Platform." But we understand that marketing machines strive to do their thing.

IndiGo's appointment of veteran airline CEO Ronojoy Dutta to lead its aggressive expansion, particularly into new long-haul territory, is a fresh departure from the woes of non-happening Air India or Jet Airways.

Royal Caribbean has spent more than a decade in China building a reputation and customer base. Now that work appears to be paying off in a global way.

Will 2019 be the year that the African Union passport is made freely available to the continent's 1.2 billion citizens? Probably not, but technocrats at the 55-nation union say progress is being made.

The role of marketing technology in the travel industry has passed the threshold of adoption, but significant attention is still required to bring the technology at work into its true and central role — industry-wide.

Feeling pigeonholed, the expense-tracking company is betting big on the Super Bowl to break free.

Promoting Taco Bell's image as anything other than a place where diets are broken and cravings are indulged is a long, lonely battle — one that Taco Bell's in-house dietician, Missy Schaaphok, has been fighting for years.

This is the year the hospitality industry starts seeing itself the same way its guests do.

TripActions wants to do more to make business travel simpler and ease the pain of disruptions. It'll be interesting to see how deeply the platform delves into personalized service going forward.

You can bet the incredible brand recognition of the Caesars name will still prove to be a double-edged sword as Caesars tries to delve deeper into the non-gaming space.