Travelers’ habits are changing, so corporate booking tools need to reflect that too. CWT’s relaunch is timely when people aspire to be kinder to the planet when they travel. -Matthew Parsons Read more ›
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Booking.com, with its hotels, vacation rentals, flights and wider array of brands, is a larger and more well-rounded company than Airbnb. Booking seems to be making gains at the expense of both Airbnb and Expedia. -Dennis Schaal Read more ›
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By choosing a community-centered nonprofit to help craft Hawaii's tourism marketing, the state's tourism authority made a bold statement, severing a century-old relationship with the conventions and visitors bureau. It's sparking controversy, but this is the uneasy path to redefining the future of tourism. -Dawit Habtemariam Read more ›
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Today’s edition of Skift’s daily podcast looks at IHG’s mix of hotel brands, Hong Kong’s airport problem, and Las Vegas’ resiliency. -Jason Clampet Read more ›
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IHG has assembled a hospitality collection with some of the most wide-ranging and eclectic brands in the world. Here's what you need to know about every one of them. -Sonia Menken Read more ›
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Say what you will about Amadeus, it undeniably dreams big, audacious dreams. At a time when many institutions pursue small solutions for trivial problems, the travel tech titan has big hopes for reshaping how hotels operate and sell their themselves online. -Sean O'Neill Read more ›
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The power of the long tail. See it for yourself in this single chart from Skift Research. -Tom Lowry Read more ›
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In Skift's top stories this week, Margaritaville's CEO explains how Jimmy Buffett's brand became a force in the hotel industry, Akasa Air's CEO discusses its launch strategy, and workers dislike how much business travel they are asked to do. -Sonia Menken Read more ›
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When it comes to putting on a great event, *everything* matters to make it so. -Brian Quinn Read more ›
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At a time when most destinations around the world are opening to unvaccinated travelers, Hong Kong is still pussyfooting around shortening the seven-day hotel quarantine period. Think it's time to live with pandemic? Try telling that to Hong Kong. -Peden Doma Bhutia Read more ›
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Everybody in the cruise business suffered during Covid except CEOs, it seemed. As passengers canceled or got sick, and workers got laid off, executive compensation topped 1,000 times the median worker's pay. Including tips. -Tim Mullaney Read more ›
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In an era when it's more important than ever to respect local communities, Tanzania's decisions with the Masaai appear beyond clueless. -Harriet Akinyi Read more ›
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Managerial skills may be what President Biden is going for with his nomination of transit executive Phil Washington to lead the FAA. After this summer of flying mayhem, managerial skills may be what's needed most now. -Edward Russell Read more ›
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Lines between hotels, short-term rentals and other accommodation types are blurring, but we see little merging in the business-to-business tech spaces that support these sectors. This will change, but there are some major barriers to overcome first. -Wouter Geerts Read more ›
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Rogue wholesale rates on metasearch sites are the gifts that keep on giving — for travelers and the metasearch sites. Expedia and Marriott seem to be making some progress on the issue. -Dennis Schaal Read more ›
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Good morning from Skift. It's Wednesday, July 6 in New York City. Here's what you need to know about the business of travel today. -Jason Clampet Read more ›
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The men got most of the headlines and speaking invitations, but women entrepreneurs helped shape the short-term rental industry from its earliest days. -Dennis Schaal Read more ›
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The list of pandemic airline bankruptcies keeps growing even as travel bounces back faster than anticipated. But hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars in government aid didn't save SAS, which became the latest victim Tuesday. -Jay Shabat Read more ›
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The nightmare that flying has become is starting to weigh on employees. Perhaps company travel managers now need to deflect any pressure from the top as bosses rush to get things back to normal. -Matthew Parsons Read more ›
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Is anyone up for some desert bathing? How about a cleansing ritual led by a shaman? -Carley Thornell Read more ›
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