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.
Tourism
Why Green Singapore Wants to Go Even Greener
Singapore sees a huge future in sustainable tourism as an outcome of the pandemic. And when Singapore sees, Singapore does.
Tourism
Executive Q&A: Lessons From Azerbaijan on Building a Sustainable Tourism Economy During the Pandemic
Azerbaijan has been growing its tourism economy for the last decade, reaching a record-breaking number of international travelers in 2019. Once the pandemic hit, the country’s tourism board realized they could use this time to emerge even stronger, thanks to Azerbaijan’s offerings that are equipped for a post-Covid-19 world.
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Business Travel
What Emburse's Acquisitions Could Reveal About the Future of Corporate Travel
Emburse wants to become a more socially responsible company, as business travelers themselves become more aware of the wider impact of their trips.
Hotels
Finding the Greenest Hotel Company: New Skift Research
Hotels need to reduce their carbon emissions by 66 percent by 2030, and 90 percent by 2050 to comply with the Paris Agreement on climate change. While there is a lot of talk, not all companies are walking the walk. We have identified those that are talking, and those that are walking.
Hotels
The Hotel Companies Most Friendly to the Environment: New Skift Research
Carbon reduction is gaining importance for stakeholders, and reporting is getting better amongst the largest hotel companies. Skift Research compares the emissions of six global chains to determine which is best positioned to become carbon neutral over the coming decades, and which are falling behind.
Tourism
Why Tourism Desperately Needs a New Performance Metric Post-Pandemic
After a year that stripped bare the inadequacy of tourism’s success metrics, how will the industry measure “building back better”? Before it answers that question, there needs to be an industrywide reckoning of tourism's root problem.
Tourism
Botswana Wildlife Camps Prepare for Evolved Post-Pandemic Travelers
Throughout the pandemic, people started to realize that we’ve loved our planet nearly to death — quite literally. Will we be able to heal our relationship with Mother Nature as the industry attempts to redefine sustainable travel?
Business Travel
Corporate Travel Agencies May Get a Welcomed Boost From Shipping and Energy Companies
With uncertainty over traditional business travel’s return still lingering, niche is the only way forward.
Airlines
United First Major Airline to Move on Electric Planes Starting with Uber-Like Service to Airports
United is raising eyebrows with its drive to cut carbon emissions. The carrier has committed to the as yet untested realm of electric helicopter-like aircraft with plans to introduce as many as 200 of them within five years — a surprisingly ambitious goal for a traditionally conservative airline.