Articles tagged “davos”

Short-Term Rentals

Vacasa Slashes Workforce and Other Top Stories This Week

In Skift's top stories this week, Vacasa makes another round of layoffs, Accor's CEO defends its major corporate overhaul, and more Americans plan to cut travel spending.

Vacasa Slashes Workforce and Other Top Stories This Week

Business Travel

What I Learned in Davos About Managing Travel’s New Complexity

Having spent the last six years of my career focused on the "journey," which is how all of us experience travel, solutions to the litany of requirements ahead are manageable. But today, our building blocks for managing tomorrow’s burgeoning global travel are only at a starting point.

What I Learned in Davos About Managing Travel’s New Complexity

Online Travel

Trip.com Group CEO Tells Davos Leaders Global Travel for China Will Be Back by Third Quarter

China is seeing record surge in searches, but for those searches to convert to bookings, it needs airlines, airports and hotels to quickly ramp up capacity.

Trip.com Group CEO Tells Davos Leaders Global Travel for China Will Be Back by Third Quarter

News Blog

Japan & U.S. Top Resilient Tourism Economies Even Through Pandemic Challenges: New Data From WEF

The World Economic Forum is back with its travel competitiveness research, rebranded now as Travel & Tourism Development Index 2021, with a new focus on resiliency and sustainable future, as is to be expected in this post-pandemic ever-present climate emergency world. As to be expected,  high-income economies and countries in the Europe and Eurasia (Europe)…

Meetings

Alpine Ski Town Davos Missing Business Leaders, Tourists This Year

A big hit to the economy of this Swiss hamlet, but some locals confess to loving the quiet.

Alpine Ski Town Davos Missing Business Leaders, Tourists This Year

Business Travel

Airbnb CTO and 3 Tech CEOs Discuss the Digital Platform Economy at Davos

This mashup of leaders in travel, media, commerce, and IT represents the cross-industry synergies fueling the rise of the digital platform economy. It also represents the growing link between smart city development and tourism, which is going to explode in 2016.

Airbnb CTO and 3 Tech CEOs Discuss the Digital Platform Economy at Davos

Tourism

No Davos Olympics, as Swiss voters reject 2022 bid

For now Davos and St Moritz would have to be content with being the playground of rich and famous, not famous and sporty.

No Davos Olympics, as Swiss voters reject 2022 bid

Tourism

Davos and St. Moritz mull 2022 Winter Olympics bid, but locals aren’t charmed

Does Switzerland really want to follow Russia on anything? That, and the cost of the project and visitor influx weighed against the very nice status quo, is the question residents are asking. And it's quite easy to say "no."

Davos and St. Moritz mull 2022 Winter Olympics bid, but locals aren’t charmed