Lufthansa Just Bought a Gateway to South America

Lufthansa wins the fight for TAP Air Portugal and its prized access to 14 Brazilian cities, Booking Holdings launches a second AI startup called Vayo that manages your whole trip before you even ask, and a Vietnamese island is racing to build 12,000 more hotel rooms for a summit that will leave town after a week. On today’s Skift Daily Briefing, Tasmin Lockwood, Skift’s Climate and Experiences Reporter, breaks down why Lufthansa’s TAP win accelerates European airline consolidation and what Brazil has to do with it, why Vayo’s whole-trip AI management model is the next front in travel’s AI race, and whether Phu Quoc’s hotel boom can outlast the APEC moment that triggered it. This episode is brought to you by ZS Articles Referenced: Connect with Tasmin Lockwood Portugal Picks Lufthansa Over Air France-KLM for TAP Stake Booking Holdings’ Second AI Startup Vayo Launches in Private Beta Phu Quoc Is Building Many More Hotel Rooms for a Regional Summit. Some Could Struggle Afterwards. Connect with Skift LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/skift/ WhatsApp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaAL375LikgIXmNPYQ0L/ Facebook: https://facebook.com/skiftnews Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skiftnews/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@skiftnews Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/skiftnews.bsky.social X: https://twitter.com/skift Subscribe to @SkiftNews and never miss an update from the travel industry.