Skift Podcast: How New York City Tourism Changes the City

Skift Podcast

Compelling discussions with travel industry leaders and creatives who are helping to shape the future of travel.

Here at Skift in Manhattan, the sound of hotel construction is our daily soundtrack.

The city has seen the number of visitors increase 67 percent since 2000 — it topped 60 million last year — and Manhattan alone added 121 hotels since 2010. Brooklyn added 42. Another 15,000 hotel rooms are expected over the next five years, according to travel research firm STR.

Like we did last year for a massive story on Iceland overtourism, we decided to take a look at New York City’s growth in visitors and hotels, the role that gentrification plays, the new ways that visitors are experiencing the city, and what kind of growth is sustainable. That story is available at skift.com/new-york-city-tourism-and-gentrification/.

On this episode of the Skift podcast, we’re talking about how New York City tourism is changing — and how tourism is changing the city itself.

Our guest is Andrew Sheivachman, the Skift reporter who wrote both the Iceland and New York City stories.

Along with Andrew, we’re hearing from some of his interviews with the people who are in the middle of New York City’s tourism scene, including Kathy Duffy, New York market director of public relations for Marriott International; Chris Heywood, senior vice president of global communications at NYC & Company; Kristin Lamoureux, associate dean of the NYU School of Professional Studies Tisch Center for Hospitality and Tourism; Adele Gutman, vice president of sales, revenue, and marketing at the Library Hotel Collection; Andrew Mason, founder of Detour; and Nick Gray, founder of Museum Hack.

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