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The rise of metasearch as led to consumers comparison shopping in big ways, the shopping cart abandonment numbers are in line with that.

Airbnb's ambitions listed here are a huge task and with its funding and right management, it may just have a chance at becoming the global leisure and hospitality brand for the millennial generation.

The new Belmond brand allows the hospitality and travel group to better seek out new management partnerships and expand the customer base to younger demographics.

At Skift, we're obsessed with vintage travel posters, and hoping some of these become those icons sometime in the future.

We are nowhere near any of the answers, except for one: this was deliberate.

Engaging images are absolutely key for travel marketing and keeping viewers' attention for longer than 10 seconds brings these companies one step closer to a sale.

Airlines don't naturally know how to respond to situations like the missing Malaysia Air flight, but there is a rulebook in place to help them along.

In a few years, the streamlined, cross-platform searching that Hipmunk and Expedia are creating will be taken for granted because any company worth anything will have to offer it. So far Hipmunk Anywhere is more intuitive than Expedia's Scratchpad with fewer clicks or taps, but these are very early days.

Other hotel brands should copy Sheraton's ideas as a way to attract meetings and conventions and build deeper marketing partnerships with local businesses.

Paris-Charles de Gaulle isn't as bad as New York's airports, but it should look to Heathrow and Frankfurt's upgrades, as well as Asian hubs, for clues about what to do next.

These airlines excel at digital customer service by not only answering questions as quickly as customers would expect them in person, but by adding a human touch to a 140-character message.