August 2017

Tourism

WTTC Appoints Mexico’s Gloria Guevara Manzo as Its First Female CEO

WTTC is staying committed to its goal of helping the global travel industry speak with one voice. But with Guevara's appointment, it's signaling the need for more women in leadership roles and the importance of Latin America's tourism growth.

Dan Peltier, Skift | 7 years ago

Cruises

Royal Caribbean Says Just About Everything Is Going Right

Royal Caribbean Cruises has stuck by its plan to avoid lowering fares to fill up ships, and that strategy appears to be working. But the cruise operator is benefitting from a lot of other factors right now too.

Hannah Sampson, Skift | 7 years ago

Mergers and Acquisitions

UK Cruise Agency Buys German Rival to Create ‘European Leader’

Cruise.co's mix of reviews and vacations has helped fuel its rise. Its private equity owners obviously want it to get even bigger and to do so it needs to buy up the competition.

Patrick Whyte, Skift | 7 years ago

Online Travel

Sabre Axes 900 Workers to Revamp Some of Its Business Lines

By cutting the management ranks, Sabre's new CEO Sean Menke addresses a gripe of "management bloat" among workers writing on review sites like Glassdoor. He also wisely cuts costs to fund new investment.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 7 years ago

Cruises

The Luxury Cruise Lines Sailing the Waters of the Amazon

As European rivers become overcrowded, luxury travelers are looking to escape the masses. They are finding the isolation they seek in Peru's Amazon region.

Laura Powell, Skift | 7 years ago

Business Travel

A Brief History of Personality-Driven Luxury Travel Companies

These four entrepreneurs took the first steps toward what would become modern adventure and luxury travel, and their first-hand accounts hold lessons — and entertainment — for all those who followed in their wake.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 7 years ago

Hotels

The Canadian Nunnery That’s Become a Wellness Retreat

Le Monastère des Augustines may seem somewhat spartan, but it provides the quintessential transformation experience that today's luxury traveler seeks.

Laura Powell, Skift | 7 years ago

Announcements

Launching Skift Lens Documentary Unit

We’ve had our gaze on the travel industry for the past five years, and now we turn that view into moving pictures with our new Skift Lens series of documentary reports.

Jason Clampet, Skift | 7 years ago