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WHITLEY COUNTY—With just over three weeks left to file to run for election in the 2022 May Primary Election, several more candidates have tossed their hats in the ring.

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31 May 2021 Expedia Group has announced a major restructure of its executive leadership team as the company changes its operations to fit into four key pillars. Rathi Murthy joins Expedia as the company’s chief technology officer and president of Expedia Services, which includes data and artificial intelligence, e-commerce, payments, and customer experience, focusing on evolving the company’s technical strategy and underlying platform. Mo...

More travel executives get their mission-critical industry news from Skift than any other source on the planet.Tell me more After shutting brands like Pillow and ApartmentJet, and striking a deal to spin off Egencia since becoming CEO a year ago, Expedia Group’s Peter Kern led a reorganization of the company that sees a trio of high-profile executives leaving. Trimming the business unit organization from five units to four and remaking them, Expedia Group appointed Rathi Murthy chief technolo...

More travel executives get their mission-critical industry news from Skift than any other source on the planet.Tell me more Throughout the week we are posting original stories night and day covering news and travel trends, including on the impact of coronavirus. Every weekend we will offer you a chance to read the most essential stories again in case you missed them earlier. Short-Term Rental Sector Could Be Headed for Its Own Dotcom Bubble Burst: HomeAway Co-Founder It’s a dire warning from ...

More travel executives get their mission-critical industry news from Skift than any other source on the planet.Tell me more Awaze is a European vacation-rentals business that U.S. private-equity firm Platinum Equity carved out of Wyndham Worldwide in 2018 in a $1.3 billion deal, including debt. The pandemic boom in domestic lettings of cottages and holiday homes for families in European markets has benefited Awaze, which has this week resumed growth through mergers and acquisitions of property ...

More travel executives get their mission-critical industry news from Skift than any other source on the planet.Tell me more Vrbo President Jeff Hurst is blunt when it comes to the lodging realities of travel this summer: book early or have a Plan B in case things are full. Despite an increase in listings in key markets, the full-home rental site does not aim to have enough offerings to meet all of the demand in key markets, like Breckenridge, Colo., or the South of France, said Hurst at the Ski...

Forget COVID-19: America Desperately Wants to Go on Vacation Fortune reported this week that Google data shows that search queries for resorts and hotels have reached their highest level in nearly ten years. Searches for “resort” peaked on March 21, with “hotel” peaking March 28, the Fortune report said. The coronavirus pandemic, among other effects on life and the economy, brought the travel and tourism industries to a near-standstill. Places and attractions were closed and traveling...

"It can prove challenging to find these details from a reliable source, so we teamed up with Sherpa to seamlessly integrate a solution into our apps, websites, and customer communications," she added. "Our goal is to reduce friction for travelers during a time when they need extra support and empower them to make responsible decisions." Expedia Group is partnering with Sherpa, a global provider of travel identification requirements for the travel industry, to offer the tool. Sherpas technology ...

One shot instead of two The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is administered in a single shot, while the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines are given in two shots several weeks apart. The way it works The Johnson & Johnson vaccine uses a different method to prime the body to fight off Covid-19: a viral vector called Ad26. Viral vectors are common viruses that have been genetically altered so that they do not cause illness but can still cause the immune system to build up its defenses. The Pfizer-Bio...