Climate Hub

Welcome to Skift’s Climate Hub, where solutions-based journalism cuts through industry spin to spotlight real progress in travel sustainability. In partnership with Intrepid Travel, Skift’s editorial team will evaluate environmental claims, highlight meaningful advancements, and hold the travel sector accountable. This independent initiative brings rigorous reporting to the forefront and pushes the industry to meet the moment in the face of growing scrutiny from travelers and stakeholders alike.

Business Travel

The Travel Advisors Leading the Overtourism Fight for a Post-Pandemic Era

Travel advisors are possibly more powerful than tourism boards in the fight against overtourism, and their advice about where to travel is increasingly valuable.

Rashaad Jorden | 4 years ago

Online Travel

7 Travel Startups Kickstarted by the UK Government

Private equity flooded the travel industry during the pandemic, but many startups looked to the government’s Innovate UK arm, which continues to put millions of pounds on the table.

Matthew Parsons | 4 years ago

Airlines

How Travel Loyalty Programs Cost the Environment: New Skift Research

Travel loyalty programs really are frequency programs. As frequency is directly linked to emissions in travel, how can travel companies find environmentally friendly ways to reward its most valuable customers?

Wouter Geerts | 4 years ago

Business Travel

The Heat Is On: How to Bake a Climate Strategy Into Your Event

4 years ago

Tourism

How Deep Is Tourism's Carbon Footprint? New Skift Research

Airlines, cruise lines and even hotels have all been measured for their impacts on the environment. But destinations themselves are hurting the environment as well. Find out which ones, and how extensive the problem, in our first-of-its-kind report.

Varsha Arora | 4 years ago

Business Travel

Airlines Unlikely to Play a Big Role Slowing Climate Change: New Report

In terms of saving the planet, the next best thing to not flying long-haul could be flying on a plane that uses sustainable fuel. Many companies are buying into this now, but it's still early days.

Matthew Parsons | 4 years ago

Tourism

New Plastics Report Warns Travel Industry and Calls for Unity to Address

As the travel industry slowly emerges from the pandemic, it will soon have to re-engage with dropping single-use plastics because regulators aren't waiting until the travel sector's profitability recovers to tighten laws.

Sean O'Neill | 4 years ago

Hotels

Skift Hospitality and Marketing Summit Video: How Accor is Evolving in a Post-Covid World

In this video from Skift's Hospitality & Marketing Summit, we hear from Accor CMO, Steven Taylor, and Skift President, Carolyn Kremins who discuss how the group is evolving its mission and services to cater to customers in an industry, reborn.

Accor Group + Skift | 4 years ago

Intrepid Travel's Overtourism Antidote for Europe Focuses on Hyperlocal and Remote

It's a promising approach — partnering with an established, niche conservation group to offer trips focused on uncrowded Mediterranean villages and protected areas. And it might just work as more travelers seek "soulful" experiences away from Europe's tourist crowds.

Lebawit Lily Girma | 4 years ago

Airlines

KLM CEO Sees More Efficient Planes as the Fastest Way to Hit Climate Goals

KLM forged ahead with its goal to halve carbon emissions by the end of the decade during the pandemic. It's making big investments in sustainable fuels and new jets with the hope that the European travel recovery is right around the corner.

Edward Russell | 4 years ago