Fine Hotels + Resorts: what a guaranteed 4pm checkout is worth
American Express has been arranging travel since 1915. Its Fine Hotels + Resorts programme puts a fixed set of benefits into every booking at more than 1,900 properties, and the average package is valued at $550.
TUI owns the plane, the hotel and the excursion desk
125 aircraft, 460 hotels, 19 cruise ships and 34.7 million customers a year. TUI is the rare travel company that answers for the whole trip because it owns most of the pieces.
Tripadvisor blocked 2.7 million fake reviews in a year, and published the number
A platform built on 1.1 billion reviews stands or falls on which ones it removes. Tripadvisor prints that figure annually, and it is the most useful thing to know before trusting a rating.
Intrepid Travel: what a twelve-person ceiling actually buys
Intrepid caps most of its groups at twelve to fourteen people and builds everything else around that number. Here is what the cap changes on the ground, and what the B Corp score of 102.5 is measuring.
Three brands, one wallet: reading One Key before you book with Expedia
Expedia, Hotels.com and Vrbo share a single rewards balance, and the tier you sit in is set by a count of trip elements rather than by money spent. Behind it sits 3.6 million properties and over 500 airlines.
Cox & Kings has been arranging other people’s journeys since 1758
The oldest travel company in the world now belongs to Abercrombie & Kent and sells tailor-made routes and small group tours across more than 100 destinations. Its 2026/27 collection turns towards Canada.
Booking.com: the discount that starts on your first booking
Genius Level 1 arrives with the account, before you have booked anything. That single design choice explains most of what Booking.com is, and the 28 million listings behind it explain the rest.
Airbnb in 2026: the kitchen, the hotels and a much larger experiences catalogue
The May 2026 release put boutique hotels into Airbnb in twenty cities and widened Experiences again. Behind the announcements the core proposition is unchanged: eight million listings, and a door key instead of a reception desk.