Articles tagged “memorial day”

Tourism

Global Travel Recovery Sustains its Momentum

The Skift Travel Health Index continued to point to a full global travel recovery in May 2023. With 14 out of 22 countries having fully recovered and some overtaking pre-pandemic performance, we anticipate the index to soon significantly surpass 2019 levels.

Saniya Zanpure | 10 months ago

Global Travel Recovery Sustains its Momentum

Airlines

U.S. Airlines Beef Up Preparations for Monster Summer Season

The airline industry believes it's taken the right steps to prevent a repeat of the chaos that plagued it last summer. A Memorial Day travel weekend poised to shatter 2019 levels will tell aviation executives if indeed they've prepared efficiently.

David Shepardson, Rajesh Kumar Singh and Doyinsola Oladipo, Reuters | 11 months ago

U.S. Airlines Beef Up Preparations for Monster Summer Season

Hotels

The Wyndham-Choice Merger Skeptics

Today's edition of Skift's daily podcast looks closer at a Choice and Wyndham combo, a good 'dirty' hostel company, and Memorial Day travel in the U.S.

Rashaad Jorden | 11 months ago

The Wyndham-Choice Merger Skeptics

Tourism

Memorial Day Trips Set To Rise: ‘Summer Travel is Officially Back’

Although inflation is still impacting many Americans' travel plans, the U.S. travel industry is poised to have its biggest Memorial Day weekend in years — another major step in its recovery from the pandemic.

Rashaad Jorden | 11 months ago

Memorial Day Trips Set To Rise: ‘Summer Travel is Officially Back’

News Blog

Give Up Travel Because of Inflation? Gen Z in UK Is Undeterred

Despite inflation taking a chunk out of family spending power in the UK, only 8 percent of Gen Z respondents in a survey said they would give up vacation plans to cut costs. But the Advertising Week Europe survey, conducted by Lucid, found a generational divide on the issue. Boomers — people age 68-77 —…

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

Tourism

U.S. Travelers Still Plan Memorial Day Road Trips Despite High Gas Prices

Memorial Day kicks off the summer travel season that will surely test American's resilience for inflation.

Mary Ann Ha | 2 years ago

U.S. Travelers Still Plan Memorial Day Road Trips Despite High Gas Prices

Tourism

37 Million Americans Out for Long Road Trips on Memorial Day Weekend

Hopes for an endless summer by Americans began in earnest on Memorial Day, as travelers took to the road by venturing 50 miles or more from home. That wanderlust should account for a 60 percent spike in travel versus last year's depressing summer kickoff.

Peter Szekely, Reuters | 3 years ago

37 Million Americans Out for Long Road Trips on Memorial Day Weekend

Hotels

U.S. Cities With the Priciest Hotel Stays This Memorial Day Weekend

Higher gas prices don't seem to be worrying travelers and it looks like summer travel will do well on its important first seasonal test as hotel stays this Memorial Day shape up to be more expensive than last year.

Dan Peltier, Skift | 9 years ago

U.S. Cities With the Priciest Hotel Stays This Memorial Day Weekend