Video: Skift CEO Argues the Travel Industry Can’t Disengage From the Turbulence Around It
Photo Credit: Skift founder and CEO Rafat Ali opened up Skift Global Forum 2017 in Manhattan on September 26. Skift
Skift Take
We are not going to go as far as the part-of-the-problem or part-of-the-solution juxtaposition. But travel companies can decide whether to play it safe or get involved when it comes to atrocities and misguided policies breaking out all around. That's the debate and the dilemma.
Can the travel industry hum along merrily on its way while social and political disruptions tormenting its customers and others come to the fore all around?
Skift says the angst swirling around us creates a state of Permanxiety.
"And Permanxiety doesn’t exist in a vacuum: Marry it to the hyper-connectivity we have these days, and then weaponized with the social platforms, and you have the perfect recipe for a permanent frenzy around the world ...
"This is what th
