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Business Travel
Good morning from Skift. It's Monday, January 31, in New York City. Here's what you need to know about the business of travel today.
Rashaad Jorden | 2 years ago
Luxury
In this brand talk from Skift Global Forum 2021, Audrey Hendley, president of American Express Travel, speaks with Rafat Ali, Skift founder and CEO, on what luxury travel will look like moving forward.
American Express + Skift | 3 years ago
Tourism
Yoga retreats will always have a place, but it's this expanded consumer definition of wellness activities that presents big opportunities ahead for the travel industry.
Lebawit Lily Girma | 3 years ago
Ground Transport
Now that the investor winners and losers are clear, Hertz is tasked with the even harder job of retooling the business to adapt to a diminished business travel environement — at least in the short term.
Dennis Schaal, Skift | 3 years ago
American Express GBT's top boss Paul Abbott knows that having a distributed workforce can boost business travel spending. The travel management giant itself went 90 percent remote in the U.S. several years ago, and it saw its business travel expenses rise.
Sean O'Neill, Skift | 3 years ago
Coronavirus
Pent-up demand will rescue consumer travel, but here's another prediction that corporate travel will lag as companies limit spending.
Niket Nishant and Noor Zainab Hussain, Reuters | 3 years ago
Online Travel
Greg O'Hara and Noam Gottesman will be shopping for a winner, but unlike early stage investors, they can hunt for a travel company with an extensive track record. In the midst of a global pandemic, this is not a done deal, but you can bet a deal will get done.
Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago
Meetings
Boom times for the meeting and events sector are disrupting the status quo, putting pressure on planners to do more with less. We are entering a period of unprecedented change for the industry.
Andrew Sheivachman, Skift | 6 years ago
Hogg Robinson Group has gone through a significant amount of restructuring in recent years. The board obviously thinks now is the right time to cash in.
Patrick Whyte, Skift | 6 years ago
Airlines
An airport lounge needs a lot of logistical heavy-lifting and finesse to get it right. But Amex has had some success executing on this mission, and is expanding internationally to Hong Kong.
Colin Nagy, Skift | 7 years ago