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Please join Skift editors and research analysts, along with VC investors and startup founders, for this dive into the state of travel startups today.
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Please join Skift editors and research analysts, along with VC investors and startup founders, for this dive into the state of travel startups today.
6 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.
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
Pavel Alpeyev, Bloomberg
With a second Vision Fund, Japan has emerged as the dominant driver of key technologies, many of which apply to travel and tourism. While the first staked ridehailing and the future of work technologies, the second is said to eye opportunities in artificial intelligence and autonomous driving.
9 months ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
Several travel startups dream of going public. Lyft's initial public offering shows that profitability isn't necessarily as important as growth in the eyes of some investors, among some other key lessons.
1 year ago
Seth Borko, Skift Research
Analyzing startups and venture capital trends helps us glimpse the future of travel.
1 year ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
As an airline, AirAsia has led its peers in many metrics, especially on cost control. But its new effort to nurture startups has the odds against it. Will this effort bring strategic gains for the company? We’ll know in a few years.
1 year ago
Seth Borko, Skift Research
Analyzing startups helps us understand what the future of travel holds. The latest generation of startups promises innovation across many facets of travel: hospitality, tours, airlines, business travel, and more.
1 year ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
Having sold his business to Booking Holdings last year, former Momondo CEO Hugo Burge has had more time for venture investing. His views on travel startup funding are insightful. And we're not saying that just because we hope to be invited to see the gorgeous mansion in Scotland that he's been refurbishing.
1 year ago
Odwa Mjo, Bloomberg
Tsogo Sun, which owns luxury properties in seven African countries including Nigeria and the Seychelles, may have hit the limit of its ability to do financial contortions for a while.
2 years ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
Cruise lines better hope that Dreamlines and other online booking tools for cruise travel don't interfere too much with their long-standing business models.
2 years ago
Seth Borko, Skift Research
Large travel corporations can't seem to get enough of the tours and activities space. It's one to watch as the year unfolds. Deals can be a great way to get a foot in the door, but don't forget to make sure there is a strategic fit — and, of course, that the price is right.
2 years ago