Booking.com to Add 150,000 Attractions With FareHarbor Tie-In
Don't expect a dramatic surge in Booking.com's access to new experiences inventory. Its announcement that this will happen "incrementally" was a tip-off.
Dennis Schaal is Skift’s Founding Editor and Executive Editor. Dennis has been a reporter focusing on online travel and short-term rentals for more than two decades at Skift, Tnooz, USA Today, and Travel Weekly. He is well-known for tough one-on-one interviews on stage at Skift events, including with the CEOs and top execs of Expedia, Uber, Booking Holdings, Priceline, Kayak, Hopper, and more.
Airbnb to Hold First National Host Summit as Policy Shifts Create Friction: SCOOP
It's a critical moment for Airbnb to do some explaining — and listening — to its largest hosts about policy changes. Many of the policy tweaks also dramatically affect individual hosts, who won't be represented.
Airbnb’s Categories Were Meant to Reinvent the Search Box – Now They’re Gone
Category search lost its utility for Airbnb when it expanded beyond one product, homes. It was telling that none of Airbnb's online travel agency multi-product rivals implemented their own version of Category search, which Airbnb touted as being so innovative.
Airbnb Services: What We Know 4 Months After Launch
Airbnb is following the money on Services, and investing in the ones that are most popular. Test and learn, as they say.
Amex GBT CEO Expects More Mergers in Corporate Travel: Skift Interview
It was a tortured process to get the Amex GBT-CWT merger past U.S. and UK regulators. Now comes the hard part.
Expedia Group CEO Ariane Gorin at Skift Global Forum – Full Video
Expedia Group CEO Ariane Gorin at Skift Global Forum 2025 addressed the impacts of the AI revolution, the company's brand strategy, and prospects for international growth, among other topics.
Navan Files for an IPO
This IPO filing from Navan was a long time coming, and the IPO market is hot right now.
Skift Global Forum 2025: 13 Things We Learned
What's next for Airbnb? How are the most important travel companies using AI? And do travelers have 'price fatigue'? Here's what we heard from more than two dozen executives at the Skift Global Forum.
Inspirato Says New Offer From Exclusive Resorts Is Not ‘Actionable’
It's hard to see how an Exclusive Resorts-Inspirato deal doesn't eventually happen, barring another suitor coming into the picture. Of course, there are egos involved.
Expedia CEO: Slow Growth in Consumer Business Was Due to Sluggish U.S. Market
Expedia Group's consumer brands aren't firing on all cylinders. It's a priority to rev them up.