The Blending of Everything in Travel
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Key Points
- Pandemic has disrupted traditional practices in the hospitality industry.
- Price transparency and experience-first events are crucial for attracting travelers.
- 'Bleisure' trips are rising in popularity, blending business and leisure travel.
Summary
Skift's Senior Hospitality Editor Sean O'Neill discusses the 2023 megatrends in the hospitality industry, highlighting how the pandemic has scrambled traditional practices. Key trends include the importance of price transparency in short-term rentals and the growing significance of experience-first events to attract travelers. Additionally, the concept of 'bleisure' trips, which blend business and leisure travel, is becoming more popular and is leading to a blending of business operations within the travel industry.
Everything got scrambled by the pandemic. Skift’s Senior Hospitality Editor Sean O’Neill gives an overview of 2023 Megatrends in the hospitality space, where a great merging in customer lives will start to challenge leaders in thinking outside the box.
Price transparency is becoming part of customer expectations for short-term rentals and experience-first events will be key to winning back travelers.
Watch the video below to see how less time with friends can be a market opportunity for hospitality, and the rise in popularity of bleisure trips, a blended trip between business and leisure, will also lead to a blending of businesses.
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