How Travel Execs Reacted to Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky’s Golden Age Vision

Brian Chesky boldly predicted a new golden age of travel at Skift Global Forum this week. He thinks tourism will come back in an altered state because of the changes the pandemic generated, but returning bigger than ever. Workplace changes on the horizon mean traditional business travel reduces as more people will be untethered from not just offices, but their home cities too, the CEO said. The net result is longer stays, with remote workers having a deeper desire to travel if they're stuck at home for long periods. Skift Global Forum interviewees rarely saw eye to eye across the three days of the conference. If anything, some used the live New York event as a platform to take swipes at one another. But most tended t