New Skift Online Summit for Startups and Investors on April 14
Brian Quinn, Skift
Please join Skift editors and research analysts, along with VC investors and startup founders, for this dive into the state of travel startups today.
21 hours ago
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Brian Quinn, Skift
Please join Skift editors and research analysts, along with VC investors and startup founders, for this dive into the state of travel startups today.
21 hours ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
This week, travel startups Air Doctor (which helps travelers find doctors overseas), Hotelmize (which helps bedbanks automatically rebook hotel rooms when rates drop), and Huilianyi (a business travel expense manager), announced rounds of investment this week, in a bit of good news.
2 days ago
Dennis Schaal, Skift
Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel said he "feels fine" after testing positive for coronavirus. As a public company, Booking Holdings prudently disclosed the diagnosis in a financial filing.
3 days ago
Accenture Interactive + Skift
What does personalization mean in 2020, and what does it look like in a world where customers are becoming increasingly protective of their data? In this webinar, we'll dive into what intelligent advertising and marketing campaigns can accomplish.
3 weeks ago
Xinyi Liang-Pholsena, Skift
For Trip.com Group’s top leader, the message is clear. Countries around the world should not squander any chances to control the virus, and neither should the travel industry let a serious crisis go to waste by not seeking out new opportunities.
3 days ago
Seth Borko, Skift Research
Travel is a long-term megatrend because all across the globe people appreciate the value that it brings to their lives. This holds true across a vast range of human differences — cultural, geographical, religious, historical, generational, and more.
4 days ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
Travelsky, China's travel technology giant, said it will weather the coronavirus-related plunge in air travel without needing to lay off workers. Remarkably, in January it added a tool to its popular flight app that alerts a traveler if another passenger is later tested and found to have coronavirus.
4 days ago
Dennis Schaal, Skift
Most travel brands aren't doing TV or much of any advertising now because of the pandemic. But for the ones still broadcasting spots, they'd better be very clever in terms of sensitivities, or risk brand damage.
1 week ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
Everyone in the travel industry is frustrated right now with much of the world frozen up. But Nicolas Brumelot, the co-founder and president of travel startup Misterfly, speaks for many agencies frustrated by alleged delays in refunds by some airlines.
1 week ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
Take a break from all the bad news and dream about flying taxis.
1 week ago
Wouter Geerts, Skift Research
Not all tech is worth the hype. But then again, the current crisis will likely accelerate the adoption of some worthwhile emerging technologies. It’s important to know how this will impact the travel industry. We’ve set out the most important technologies to help you burst that hype bubble.
1 week ago
Seth Borko, Skift Research
We are headed into a winter for travel startups. But travel won't be gone forever. And history teaches us that startups are often the first to pinpoint our industry’s new direction as we exit a crisis.
2 weeks ago