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Kanchi Jain

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Sep 18, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Kanchi Jain

    Skift Global Forum Preview: IHG's Chief Customer Officer on Making Hotels Legible to AI (opens the original)

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    Heather Balsley is making IHG legible to the AI models while arguing the models will never own the guest. Two bets, one strategy, at Skift Global Forum. Select a question above or ask something else When a traveler asks an AI assistant where to stay, the hotels it names are the ones whose content the model can actually read. IHG is rebuilding for that moment. Heather Balsley, the group’s Chief Commercial & Marketing Officer, joins Skift Global Forum on September 22–24, 2026, to explain the conte

  2. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Kanchi Jain

    Skift Global Forum Preview: Revolution's Steve Case on Which Friction to Protect From AI (opens the original)

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    Will this become abundant, or stay scarce? That one question drives how Steve Case invests in the AI era: AI on the abundant, capital on the rest. It leads him somewhere counterintuitive: the industry's real job now is protecting the friction worth keeping. We'll get into it at Skift Global Forum. Select a question above or ask something else The company behind Exclusive Resorts, Inspirato, and a Costa Rican peninsula invests by asking what AI can’t replicate. That’s the through-line for Steve C

  3. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · Kanchi Jain

    Live Tourism's Biggest Operators Are Confirmed. Are You in the Room? (opens the original)

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    Select a question above or ask something else The people who decide where live demand lands, who captures it, and how it gets sold are speaking in one closed room in New York on September 22. The tourism authority that turned Las Vegas into standing economic infrastructure is on the agenda. So is Live Nation, the company routing where the next live moment goes. The room they are speaking to is capped, and few seats remain. That is the pitch for the Skift Live Tourism Summit, presented by Live Na

  4. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Kanchi Jain

    Skift Global Forum Preview: Accor CEO on Why Data is Essential, but Instinct Matters Most (opens the original)

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    Accor CEO Sébastien Bazin shares what drives his decisions at scale for one of the world's largest hotel groups. He calls data essential, but says it should feed instinct rather than overrule it, a claim worth testing at Skift Global Forum. Select a question above or ask something else Sébastien Bazin has led Accor since 2013. In that time, he’s built a rule for big calls: data sharpens the decision; it doesn’t make it. Bazin joins Skift Global Forum on September 22–24, 2026, to explain how that

  5. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Kanchi Jain

    See the Confirmed Speakers for Skift Creator Summit 2026 (opens the original)

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    Creator-led demand moves across every seat in travel and sits fully inside none of them. The confirmed Creator Summit roster puts the operators who each own a piece of that path in one closed room on September 22. Select a question above or ask something else Every travel company can now see creator-led demand working, and still no single team owns it end to end. The brand sees the spend, the platform sees the click, the affiliate rail sees the payout, the creator sees the audience, and no one s

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