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Cameron Sperance, Skift
Corporate travel is barreling down an uncertain road to a facelift that could strip it down to essential business by the time the travel sector gets to the other side of its coronavirus rebound.
3 hours ago
Dennis Schaal, Skift
Airlines built loyalty programs around spend thresholds rather than miles traveled in recent years. The pandemic may catapult airline and hotel loyalty programs into becoming less transactional and more experiential and creative.
3 hours ago
Rosie Spinks, Skift
Las Vegas is tried and true. Or is it? Just like with everything else, the pandemic will upend what one of the U.S.'s leading destinations has to offer — and digitization and hybrid models will be at the core of the reinvention.
7 hours ago
Costa Rica Tourism Board + Skift
Supported by a WTTC Safe Travel Stamp, Costa Rica’s borders have slowly re-opened to international tourism. We chat to hotel operators on the ground about the fresh protocols, and the path to recovery.
2 weeks ago
Cameron Sperance, Skift
The global pandemic still impacted Accor's recent corporate restructuring, whether the company sees it that way or not.
1 day ago
Cameron Sperance, Skift
It's unlikely economic lockdowns are in the cards for preventing future coronavirus case surges in the U.S., and Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson's defense of "hygiene theater" shows what the business community sees as a viable alternative safety measure.
1 day ago
Cameron Sperance, Skift
Las Vegas casino resorts are seeking creative alternative revenue streams while convention travel is bottomed out, but it's highly unlikely anything will match the dollars associated with a mammoth, multi-day event.
2 days ago
David Shepardson, Reuters
The U.S. House has a $14 billion plan to fix a highway and airport funding shortfall during the pandemic, but the measure is still just another Band-Aid on a growing need for legitimate infrastructure spending.
2 days ago
Cameron Sperance, Skift
The lifestyle hotel sector is increasingly crowded with bigger brands, but Dream Hotel Group is one of the few genuinely boutique players left on the field. Independence may be its trump card for brand identity moving forward."
3 days ago
Cameron Sperance, Skift
Even if recent occupancy gains are tied to a blip in the holiday calendar, Chinese hotels continue to see a coronavirus economic recovery pattern that is the envy of the world.
6 days ago
Wouter Geerts, Skift Research
All the contactless tech that is receiving so much buzz in the hotel industry today predates the current crisis. So it might not be revolutionary, but the impact will certainly outlast the pandemic.
6 days ago
Dennis Schaal, Skift
Masks, social distancing, and vaccines can't stop climate change. It isn't a competition to choose the most dire threat, climate change or Covid-19, because they are interrelated. But taking a long-term view, climate change will be an existential threat to the travel industry, and the world, even as coronavirus fades.
7 days ago
