Vacation Rentals Lose Pandemic Edge and 15 Other Top Travel Stories This Week
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This week in travel, Skift covered how the vacation rentals' advantage over hotels during the pandemic has all but disappeared, that climate change will be travel's challenge now and after the pandemic is history, and how Delta is leveraging its SkyMiles program.
Throughout the week we are posting original stories night and day covering news and travel trends, including on the impact of coronavirus. Every weekend we will offer you a chance to read the most essential stories again in case you missed them earlier.
The Short-Lived Vacation Rental Advantage Over Hotels Is Almost Gone: The death of hotels was greatly exaggerated. Advantage Booking.com and Expedia — not Airbnb — if travelers indeed are now seeking out both hotels and vacation rentals in comparable numbers.
Expedia Is Now Marriott's Exclusive Provider of Wholesale Rates for Travel Agents: If the Expedia-Marriott partnership works out as promised, then there will be fewer Marriott rates on metasearch sites that are deeply discounted compared to Marriott's own websites. And bedbanks and tour operators will have to sign up with Expedia — not Marriott — to get their hands on Marriott's wholesale rates.
No Escaping Climate Change for the Travel Even When Covid-19 Becomes a Distant Memory: Masks, social dist
