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Skift Take: Expedia is taking its AI recruitment fight to the heart of Silicon Valley, with a new San Jose hub for AI and engineering just a 10-minute drive from the Googleplex. But can it court tech and AI talent away from Big Tech? Here's the pitch.

Skift Take: Almosafer’s growth story now runs on domestic demand. That’s a bet on Makkah, the Red Sea, and Qiddiya outlasting a war that hit outbound travel first.

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Skift Take: The roughly 200 brands across the big hotel groups make more sense as an answer to a quarterly growth metric than to anything travelers asked for.

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Skift Take: In June and July, the United States ushered in visitors from dozens of countries as a World Cup host. It wasn’t enough to put an end to disappointing overseas tourism figures.

Skift Take: Minor International is postponing its plan to float a real estate investment trust (REIT) with some of its hotels. A hoped-for Mideast ceasefire might reduce investor worries about inflation and make hotels more attractive as investments.