Launching New Skift Pro Exclusive: Dennis’ Online Travel Briefing

Editor's Note: This week we're launching a new column exclusively for subscribers to Skift Pro. Every Wednesday, Executive Editor and online travel rockstar Dennis Schaal will bring readers exclusive reporting and insight into the business of online travel and digital booking, and how this sector has an impact across the travel industry.  This column is exclusive to Skift Pro subscribers, but this inaugural edition is free to all Skift readers. Subscribe to get these insights from next week onwards. This Week In Online Travel Beyond the devastating human carnage, Covid-19 has obliterated the dreams — the visions — of untold numbers of online travel companies that earlier planned on making a variety of strategic moves. Online travel brands ended or downgraded many potential strategy changes out of necessity as they were forced to defund projects or had to send engineers and product leads packing. Take Airbnb, which until earlier this year was enhancing its HotelToni