If you're working in travel, India is no longer a market that you can afford to ignore. Let our Skift India newsletter help you to stay updated with all that you need to know about the travel, aviation and hospitality sectors, among others in the country.(skift.com) | Continue reading
Cities are indeed coming back, which seemingly counter-intuitively could present an average daily rate challenge for Airbnb. These pressures, though, are manageable. Airbnb has an answer for all those skeptics who claimed for years that it was a typical Silicon Valley unicorn wit … | Continue reading
For years, we at Skift have talked about messaging & voice search being two potential new interfaces that help change travel booking, but not much has happened. Conversational AI is very likely going to change that.(skift.com) | Continue reading
Co-living goes a step further from traditional short-term rentals and seeks to embed travelers and residents as one collective group. This is a form of living that more and more entrepreneurs are bringing to fruition but it's unclear whether co-living will survive within the shor … | Continue reading
A smart new campaign launched by Hilton, highlighting its connected rooms feature, for travelers looking for larger spaces when booking family or group travel. First in this "Connecting Room Concerts" series, a performance from Brandi Carlile, six-time Grammys Awards winner - and … | Continue reading
U.S.-based meeting, event and office provider Convene has bought etc.venues, which now expands its footprint in the UK. Convene said the deal, announced on Wednesday, makes it the "largest provider of premium meeting and event venues in the U.S. and UK." Terms of the deal were no … | Continue reading
Discover the biggest trends in hotels, airlines, tourism, online travel, and business travel this year: Welcome to Skift Megatrends 2023. | Continue reading
The use cases of AI in our daily lives, both personal and professional, just imploded exponentially. Worth thinking through, reading and experimenting as much possible for the travel sector. Something shifted this weekend, the zeitgeist on the real possibilities of artificial int … | Continue reading
The travel industry has experienced extraordinary growth over the past decade. This year alone, expenditures for the global travel industry are expected We are pleased to announce the official launch of Skift Advisory, a new division offering exclusive knowledge and expertise to … | Continue reading
Hosts may be sabotaging their own bookings by levying excessively high cleaning fees. It is turning off many people to Airbnb, which is a concern for the company. Among the options that Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky is mulling to remedy what he said is a "huge problem," namely cleaning … | Continue reading
An enthusiastic Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky took to the stage at Skift Global Forum in New York City on September 21 and made his case for why we are entering a "golden age of travel" during a wide ranging conversation with Skift founder and CEO Rafat Ali.(skift.com) | Continue reading
Chase is doubling down on travel as an aspirational commerce category for its customers, with giant numbers to back up its ambitions. Expect some more travel M&A by these banks. Chase is planning to launch ChaseTravel.com later this year as a consumer portal for its cardholders a … | Continue reading
This year's forum will be one for the books. It's our 10th anniversary at Skift and we're pulling out all the stops as we explore the future of travel and convene industry leaders this September.(skift.com) | Continue reading
The energy around the travel industry in the Middle East right now is unprecedented, and Dubai is at the center of it all. And that's why we're announcing Dubai as the location for our first-ever extension of our premier Skift Global Forum event. This isn't a freakin' trade confe … | Continue reading
Skift founder and CEO Rafat Ali's high ranking as an influential travel leader stems from his willingness to tackle major issues - especially news and trends - in the travel industry. Skift founder and CEO Rafat Ali is being recognized as one of travel's most influential leaders … | Continue reading
One of travel's most-anticipated SPAC IPOs, Amex GBT made it official Friday. It will start trading as a public company on the Tuesday after Memorial Day, smack into a volatile market. But signs of a fast-improving business travel recovery may be what investors choose to focus on … | Continue reading
JetBlue Airways surprised the airline industry when it unveiled a $3.6 billion proposal t o acquire Spirit Airlines on April 5, potentially upsetting Frontier Airlines planned merger with Spirit. But upset or not, Frontier stands to gain no matter what the outcome of who Spirit e … | Continue reading
Travel is where all the Permanxieties show up in a concentrated form. What can travel brands do to participate and alleviate travelers' Permanxieties? Every fall to accompany Skift Global Forum we publish a collector's magazine devoted to one big topic. These have focused on larg … | Continue reading
Travel is the most consequential industry in the world, as the world is now finding out due to lack of travel. Skift aims to be the most consequential company deciphering this and the path ahead. Support our work. March 14, 2020. The day we will always remember from here on out a … | Continue reading
Japan Airlines and ANA Holdings said they would cancel the flights over safety concerns. | Continue reading
Russian oligarch Alexey Mordashov is TUI's largest shareholder and sits on its supervisory board. He met with Putin in the Kremlin last week. | Continue reading
Heygo, a travel startup that has raised a $20 million Series A funding round, is a "Twitch for travel," offering livestreamed tours. | Continue reading
AvantStay, a short-term rental property operator, has closed a $500 million funding round led by investor Saluda Grade. | Continue reading
Booking Holdings saw a big jump in room nights booked in the third quarter, versus the prior three months, and hotel reservations in Europe drove the increase. | Continue reading
Rebranding got a lot of attention in the past few days with Facebook's name-change to Meta, but what about Hotels.com's outdated brand? | Continue reading
Hertz on Monday announced an order of 100,000 Tesla cars, taking a step towards a giant fleet to electric vehicles. | Continue reading
With the holiday season fast approaching, research shows that people are more excited than ever to give the gift of travel. | Continue reading
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Investment group Blackstone notched a massive windfall on a casino resort in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip. | Continue reading
United Airlines employees who receive religious exemptions from the company for COVID-19 vaccinations will be placed on temporary, unpaid personal leave | Continue reading
Grubhub, a delivery service, wants to be an outsourced vendor that runs room service for resorts and hotels such as Resorts World Las Vegas. | Continue reading
Venture-funded startups in the U.S. are swapping offices for team trips and Airbnb properties as leases expire. | Continue reading
Hyatt plans to buy resort company Apple Leisure Group for $2.7 billion, the Wall Street Journal reports. | Continue reading
Two global consultancies are about to pare down their business travel to an absolute minimum for the post-pandemic future. | Continue reading
It’s no longer your grandparent's timeshare market — just in time for millennials and Gen Z to be in the buyer's seat. Timeshares were rare growth | Continue reading
When Covid hit, travel's broad cross-section of content creators — bloggers on free or paid press trips, social media influencers, and multimedia | Continue reading
Booking Holdings' new Fintech unit is busy working on ways to enable travelers to avoid credit card companies' gotcha foreign exchange fees. | Continue reading
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Travel's recovery is not straightforward. The gap between the top performing countries and those struggling, is widening. We’ve been saying it from early | Continue reading
American is reactivating its last few jets ahead of what could be a banner summer for leisure travel after the depths of the pandemic. | Continue reading
A little more than a decade ago, a Big Bang of mergers winnowed the U.S. airline industry down from more than a dozen major airlines to just four. Delta | Continue reading
Air New Zealand's domestic business travel has returned to 90 percent of pre-pandemic levels, bucking a downward trend in many other countries. | Continue reading
If you want to be scared out of your mind and be hugely inspired at the same time, all wrapped in a less-than-20-minutes video, well, you’ve landed on the | Continue reading
Wuhan has come most of the way back tourism-wise from the bleakest days of the provincial capital's history earlier this year. | Continue reading
Altitude Acquisition filed the paperwork Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise $300 million in an initial public offering to go on the hunt for opportunities in the travel industry. | Continue reading
Privacy changes in Apple's operating system debuting this month would sabotage the travel sector's ability to place relevant ads. | Continue reading
Wizz Air, a budget airline, charges ticket buyers a higher administrative fee if they use an ad blocker while making their purchase. Why? | Continue reading
Capital One acquired Freebird, a business-to-business startup whose predictive technology lets agents sell smarter flight insurance and rebooking services. | Continue reading