2020 Archives

Tripadvisor’s tours & activity subsidiary, Viator, is currently a market leader in its sector but the size of that lead over rivals is shrinking.

Hotel booking trends have shifted to much smaller gaps between making a reservation and check-in during the pandemic. That's a forecasting headache for labor and costs, even if you are focused on the stronger drive-to travel sector like IHG.

Donald Trump's tweet on Tuesday afternoon was stunning even for this president. You could feel the anguish throughout the travel industry, which had still had been holding out hope for more federal relief to help its workers and to keep others in their jobs.

What do you do when your customers stop traveling? Diversify into procurement and expense management, of course.

As we launch into Skift Forum Asia next week, we're thrilled to bring a day of in-depth and thought-provoking conversations between industry leaders and Skift editors to this online format, available live on October 15 and on-demand after.

As many companies opt out of their long-term leases for some of their offices, they face a new need for more team gatherings to ensure collaboration and company culture among distributed teams. This trend is an opportunity for the travel sector.

With continued uncertainty, destinations, airlines, and hotels are offering free or low-cost Covid medical coverage to boost consumer confidence. That's all great. But it will take additional innovative safety measures to attract tourists in large numbers for the upcoming winter season, as travel remains a risky proposition.

The hotels-as-office trend is exploding, but partnerships with a workplace provider like Industrious could give the trend longevity well beyond when hotel rates and occupancy go back to pre-pandemic levels.

This deal between the lodging brand and the co-working program could not have come at a better time. Selina has the real estate that Remote Year needed to be cost-effective, and Remote Year has the digital nomads Selina could use to drive its growth.

In this webinar, Salesforce and The Travel Corporation discuss the evolution of digital transformation, how it applies to businesses today, and why the right use of data is imperative to truly understanding today’s traveler.