Julie Gordon, Reuters
Another successful case study of a travel bubble, well, as successful as you can be in a pandemic. New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador coordinated a travel bubble while implementing strict Covid guidelines. The result was small businesses were able to make some money these past months.
4 hours ago
Rafat Ali, Skift
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.
6 hours ago
Dennis Schaal, Skift
In Skift's top stories this week, Expedia conducted another round of layoffs, tech investors are drooling over the events industry, American Airlines is mulling bringing back the 737 Max before the end of the year, and Google founding itself dealing with a U.S. antirust lawsuit.
1 day ago
Accor Group + Skift
In this video conversation from Skift Forum Asia, we hear from Gaurav Bhushan, CEO, Lifestyle of Accor and Mark Peters, Co-Founder and Director of Tribe Hotels on the rise of lifestyle hospitality in Asia.
5 days ago
Airline Weekly
Virgin America's Airbus airplanes were never a good fit for the historically all-Boeing Alaska Airlines. Four years after the two airlines merged, the Seattle-based company now says it is looking to replace those planes, but it's playing coy about what it might order.
2 days ago
EventMB
The learning curve for still-new virtual events is steep, and many event professionals have struggled to profitably shift their events online. However, there are events that have not only succeeded, but exceeded their live event profits — here's how.
2 days ago
Brian Quinn, Skift
Our inaugural Skift Aviation Forum will be an essential event for anyone looking to understand the aviation industry's path forward from what has been its greatest crisis. Led by Skift's Airline Weekly and Skift editors, these conversations with CEOs and industry leaders are not to be missed.
2 days ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
Oasis is yet another example of how the travel sector has been testing the subscription model this year. But the company's on-again, off-again investment history with Accor, Hyatt, and Vacasa hints at a broader story. Blended hospitality with leisure travelers is difficult to do at scale.
2 days ago
Dennis Schaal, Skift
On the road toward its IPO, Airbnb has engaged in nonstop publicity about its efforts to crack down on house parties. Another less-noticed part of that effort is when Airbnb blocks these bookings of whole homes, it encourages users to book hotels instead.
2 days ago
Cameron Sperance, Skift
Revenue improved for IHG in the third quarter, but there is still too much weakness in the travel economy (and IHG's own portfolio) to call this a win.
2 days ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
This week, travel startups raised $125 million in funding for RV rentals, short-term rentals, pod hotels, travel agencies, and flight-free itineraries.
3 days ago
Madhu Unnikrishnan, Skift
Why does CEO Gary Kelly say he's "happy"? The airline is aggressively going after leisure travelers and has added a bunch of new routes. Still, it's not all clear skies ahead for the LUV line, as potentially fractious union negotiations loom.
3 days ago
