Rafat Ali

Marriott's CEO has joined us on stage at Skift Global Forum in years past, but for 2020 the message is more immediate, even if he is promoting a long-term perspective on the industry.

Everyone forgets that in the moment in business, everything is cyclical, and the fate of business forever is bundling and unbundling over a period of time, even if they're put back together in different and potentially unrecognizable ways.

That whooshing sound in the corporate travel sector's ear ...

Goodall on her life in the pandemic, what led us — in travel, in daily lives — to where we are, and what her hopes are for the future of meaningful tourism from here.

Welcome to 0.1 version of the gold rush in the events sector, with dream specs for every tech investor on the planet.

Is Asia is still the future of travel, for itself and for the world at large, in a global economy & consumer behavior restructured by the pandemic?

Best case scenario: one of the largest and most creative sectors in the world comes out of this much smaller, more nimble, and thrives in different ways than in the past.

Media companies are only & only human capital, events are a test of human endurance & celebration of human achievement. That’s what I miss about our physical Skift Global Forum this year.

"Absolutely no one in the industry, government, capital markets or media is willing to face up to this inevitable reality." Don't say we didn't warn you.

Do we really need a vague, sepia-tinted-baritone-overloaded reminder to know we are missing normality and locked out from regular traveling?