EDITION #250 The Professor’s Minute Minute — November 4, 2025

 Our 250th Edition!!!

Travel tech headlines, absences noticed, political theatre, market bubbles, and a shifting accommodation battlefield.

Travel Tech Takes Centre Stage at WTM

WTM London puts travel tech in the spotlight this week. AI, data, retailing, and guest experience innovation lead the agenda.

https://www.ttnworldwide.com/ArticleTA/329908/Travel-tech-takes-spotlight-at-World-Travel-Market-

Why Nigeria Isn’t at WTM

Nigeria will miss WTM due to lack of funding. A stark reminder that tourism ambitions need budgets to match.

https://thesun.ng/nigeria-set-to-miss-london-wtm-2025-due-to-paucity-of-funds/

Cruz’s Latest Popularity Stunt

Senator Ted Cruz proposes a “Keep America Flying” bill to pay aviation workers during shutdowns. Political theatre or meaningful support?

https://simpleflying.com/keep-america-flying-us-senate-bill-pay-aviation-workers/

Pop Goes the Weasel?

Are we in a bubble? We only ever call it after it bursts. A timely reminder for anyone feeling overconfident.

https://killercharts.substack.com/p/we-only-call-it-a-bubble-after-it

Airbnb Becomes a Hotel OTA

Airbnb is now officially selling hotels. The line between hotel OTA and home-share platform just vanished.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hotelyield_hospitality-distribution-shorttermrentals-share-7387835036823199744-uOhl

Quirky: Are You Superstitious When You Travel?

From lucky seats to avoiding certain flight numbers—travellers swear by some odd rituals. Do you?

https://www.elliottconfidential.com/p/cracking-the-code-of-travel-superstitions

A Picasso Blue Period–style cubist landscape (1200×628) with cool blues and subtle contrasts. A clean symbolic composition showing: a stylised WTM exhibition space with angular tech motifs; a quiet, empty booth or outline hinting at Nigeria’s absence; a theatrical podium shape with exaggerated gestures suggesting political performance; a fragile bubble-like sphere fracturing at one edge; a merging of hotel-style building forms with a house-shaped silhouette symbolising Airbnb’s shift; and a small playful travel superstition symbol (e.g., a lucky charm or tilted number) woven in. No text anywhere and at most two subtle brand colour hints fully integrated into the art.

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