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The U.S.-Iran war has split the Gulf hotel market in two. Resorts are seeing stronger rates as leisure travelers return, while UAE city hotels have had to cut room rates by 15% to 20% in August and September to keep occupancy within 5% of target, according to Duncan O’Rourke, Accor’s CEO for premium, midscale and economy brands across the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. “It’s the city hotels where we’re down, and that’s just in the UAE,” O’Rourke told Skift.

For half a decade, the Gulf’s growth looked inevitable. Capital compounded, visitor numbers climbed, and new destinations rose from the desert faster than anywhere else in the industry could build. The Iran-U.S. war ended that certainty. Every major travel organization operating in or through the region now has to decide how much of that trajectory survives sustained conflict, and how much traveler trust survives with it.

In Partnership with the European Travel Commission · Hosted by Tourism Ireland October 15, 2026 · Portmarnock Resort & Jameson Golf Links, Dublin Skift Transatlantic Summit 2026 · Pre-Read The transatlantic corridor remains one of travel’s most important markets — and also one of the most exposed to global disruption. Geopolitics, rising costs, changing traveler behavior, and new technology are forcing companies to rethink where new growth will come from.

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The Himalayas are at a tipping point. An avalanche at a Himalayan base camp on September 27 left at least 15 dead as staff were fixing ropes ahead of a trek of the Himlung Himal peak in Manang district. The avalanche came a month after flooding downstream from Nepal’s Langtang national park, near the Himalayan border region with Tibet, which devastated towns and popular tourist areas.

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Subscribe Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | RSS On this episode of Suite Success, host Katie Cline sits down with Angela Val, President and CEO of Visit Philadelphia, to talk about her remarkable journey from answering phones as the organization’s receptionist to ultimately leading it as CEO.

Key Points Boomers cut trips before they cut costs: 60% would take fewer leisure trips when finances tighten, and only 17% would keep traveling and shop for cheaper transportation and accommodation. Flexibility is the rare ancillary boomers will pay for. Reschedulable bookings, early check-in, and late checkout lead the list of premiums, while a premium-feeling experience ties for last. Skift recommends the "defer" path over discounting or shifting spend to Gen X.

Baby boomers hold more accessible wealth than any other generation, and they're more willing than most to spend it on travel… but don’t tell them that. Report Overview Baby boomers are a reliable customer for the travel industry, but they can also be hard to understand. They control more discretionary wealth than any other generation, but they class themselves as budget travelers who seek value in every dollar spent.