Hilton CEO Christopher Nassetta at Skift Global Forum 2021
Skift Take
A fallible forecast: Hilton CEO Christopher Nassetta's claim that business travel demand will eclipse pre-pandemic levels in three years still has time to pan out, but another prediction that the labor shortage would partially fix itself after the lapse of extra unemployment benefits isn't ringing true.
Hilton President and CEO Christopher Nassetta spoke with Skift CEO Rafat Ali at Skift Global Forum 2021. The two discussed the theme “How We Live and Work Has Changed for Good, Will Travel?”
You can watch a full video of their discussion as well as read a transcript of it, below.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/RbK9Hpns8IcRafat Ali: Thank you, Chris, for being here.
Christopher Nassetta: Great to be with you. Before we get started, I did want to voice one small complaint or really a question for you. I want to know … I was here last in 2019. By the way, it's fabulous to see some … well, I can't say smiling faces because I can't see their mouths but nice to see a lot of people in the room. But did I do something wrong?
Ali: To be the last speaker of the day?
Nassetta: In 2019 to get the 5:30 p.m. slot? I mean, I would've asked you this backstage, but I thought it would be more interesting for everybody to
