4 Future of Travel Downloads From Skift You May Have Missed
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We will continue to decipher and define the big trends for you, the professional in the global travel industry. Read these to understand the big trends.
If you are new to travel, or new to Skift or an occasional reader of our work, you may have missed these four big thought-leadership downloads we launched at different times over the last year.
These are editorial packages that will help you understand the big marketing, strategy, and tech trends that are defining the future of travel. We are these recirculating these four free downloads again, below.
- Skift Magazine Issue 1: The Megatrends Defining Travel in 2015: Our annual megatrends package from 2015, with 14 big trends that cut across all sectors of travel. The Big Three key themes emerging in travel in 2015 were: Mobile. Seamless. Experiential.
- Skift Manifesto on the Future of Travel in 2020: This 25-page manifesto released in Aug last year brings together a lot of themes we have talked about in the last three years, and some lessons we have learned about the larger changes happening in consumer behavior—especially digital habits—and how they get reflected in travel.
- Skift Magazine: The Versus Issue: The Fault Lines of Disruption in the Global Travel: This magazine issue, launched in October last year, explores the global fault lines and conflicts that are determining the direction of the travel industry.
- Skift Magazine, Issue 3: The Megatrends Defining Travel in 2016: This annual magazine is devoted to our analysis of 15 big trends playing out in the global travel industry, from changing consumer habits, to the big marketing changes happening, to how consumer data are finally being used to understand the traveler, among others.
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