Skift Take Airbnb is mandated to collect and remit and tourist taxes in most countries. Srividya Kalyanaraman The three U.S. states that generated the most in tourism taxes in 2023 were: Florida at $387 million, California at $212 million, and Tennessee at $135 million. In 2023, Airbnb hosts in the U.S. contributed $2.2 billion in […]
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Skift Take It’s not wholly surprising that Michael Brown, CEO of Travel and Leisure Co., topped the list of compensation among the top bosses of timeshare operators. His company led its peers in revenue and net income last year. Sean O’Neill Michael Brown, CEO of Travel and Leisure Co., made $8.4 million in total compensation
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LONDON — The newest endangered baby gorilla at the London Zoo is more than six weeks old but doesn’t yet have a name. Zookeepers aren’t even sure if it’s a male or female because they haven’t been able to get close enough to examine it. A photo taken Monday by The Associated Press shows why:
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Aidan Gomez can take some credit for the ‘T’ at the end of ChatGPT. He was part of a group of Google engineers who first introduced a new artificial intelligence model called a transformer. That helped set a foundation for today’s generative AI boom that ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and others built upon. Gomez, one of eight
Skift Take Booking.com’s Travel Sustainable program ran into a regulatory buzzsaw. Dennis Schaal Booking.com initiated a program in 2021 to highlight properties that were standouts in their sustainability practices – on Monday, it began removing its badges from listings in response to regulators in the Netherlands. Booking’s program was called “Travel Sustainable” and designated properties
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A New York appeals court ruled that former President Donald Trump does not have to come up with $464 million to appeal the judgment against him in his civil fraud trial, and must only provide a bond in the amount of $175 million. At midnight Monday, the time had expired on the 30-day grace period
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MIAMI – With the state preparing for a legal challenge from the tech industry, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a high-profile bill aimed at keeping children off social media platforms. “You better believe, I am going to fight like hell to uphold this in court,” Attorney General Ashley Moody said during a bill-signing event
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Retired Justice Stephen Breyer talks new book and Supreme Court’s recent rulings – CBS News As the Supreme Court prepares to deliberate on its most significant abortion access case since the reversal of Roe v. Wade and the potential for former President Trump’s criminal prosecution, it does so without the presence of the long-serving liberal
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Washington —The Justice Department announced charges against seven Chinese nationals with ties to a state-sponsored group in a hacking scheme, accusing the individuals of targeting U.S. businesses and political officials, candidates and campaign staff to promote the Chinese government’s “economic espionage and foreign intelligence objectives.” The indictment charges the seven individuals, which were allegedly part
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A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by Elon Musk’s X Corp. against the non-profit Center for Countering Digital Hate, which has documented the increase in hate speech on the site since it was acquired by the Tesla owner. X, formerly known as Twitter, had argued the center’s researchers violated the site’s terms of service
