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Today's edition of Skift's daily podcast examines Saudi Arabia's dry World Cup bid, short-term rentals in the EU, and VistiBritain's entertaining tourism ideas.
Rashaad Jorden | 2 months ago
Online Travel
This move follows after Booking sent a confidential memo to the authorities challenging their decision, and laying out details for why the company thinks the commission's arguments are flawed.
Foo Yun Chee, Reuters | 2 months ago
Airline Weekly
First the Dutch government cut flights at Schiphol. Now it wants to tax transit passengers. What more does KLM face?
2 months ago
Airlines
European authorities will seemingly have to find way other ways to reduce the carbon footprint of the airline industry. It's incredibly unlikely much of the European Union will support France's push for minimum pricing on flights.
Reuters | 2 months ago
Short-Term Rentals
Today's edition of Skift's daily podcast looks closer at short-term rentals in Europe, global tourism investment, and Dubai’s hot Russian summer.
A minimum price for flights in Europe, if enacted, could help lead to a reduction in airlines' carbon emissions. But France's proposal faces an uphill climb to becoming a reality, especially with several destinations' tourism industries being dependent on low-cost flights.
Kate Abnett, Reuters | 2 months ago
It's unclear how better transparency and host registration will add to affordable housing in dense European capitals that have long survived on income from tourism.
Srividya Kalyanaraman | 2 months ago
News Blog
In the first half of 2023, Europe experienced its highest number of tourist stays in the past decade, according to Eurostat, the European Union's statistics agency. Europe recorded 1.19 billion night stays between January and June 2023, up by 0.9% and 12.9% from the same period in 2019 and 2022, respectively. International tourism gave Europe…
Dawit Habtemariam | 2 months ago
The European Parliament on Wednesday approved the bloc's sustainable aviation fuel mandates in the push to cut aviation emissions dramatically. The mandates, which are part of the European Union's Fit for 55 program to cut carbon emissions, require that 2% of all aviation fuel used in the bloc must be low-emission sustainable aviation fuel, or…
Edward Russell | 2 months ago
CDS Groupe, a hotel booking platform for business travel, is expanding into the German market through an acquisition. The France-based company said this week that it has acquired Corporate Rates Club, the business travel segment of TourisMarketing Service GmbH. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Corporate Rates Club will continue to operate independently with…
Justin Dawes | 2 months ago
