Articles tagged “dining”

Startups

Archer Aviation Raises $215 Million for Urban Flying Taxis: Startup Funding Roundup

Archer Aviation expects its flying taxis to be in the air in 2025, and Atmosfy wants to change the way people leave dining reviews.

Justin Dawes | 4 months ago

Archer Aviation Raises $215 Million for Urban Flying Taxis: Startup Funding Roundup

Travel Technology

Airalo Raises $60 Million for eSIM Marketplace: Startup Funding Roundup

Airalo wants to keep travelers from buying physical SIM cards, and GoTab wants to make life easier for hotel dining operators.

Justin Dawes | 4 months ago

Airalo Raises $60 Million for eSIM Marketplace: Startup Funding Roundup

Online Travel

Tripadvisor Execs Suggest Viator and Hotel Auction Will Be Key to New Strategy

The most important thing about Tripadvisor's exercise in formulating a new strategy will be how it reconfigures priorities. Answers to that question won't be divulged until 2023.

Dennis Schaal | 1 year ago

Tripadvisor Execs Suggest Viator and Hotel Auction Will Be Key to New Strategy

Online Travel

Tripadvisor Hotel Recovery Lags Rivals

Tripadvisor CEO Steve Kaufer said Tripadvisor is "uniquely positioned as the world opens up again." Actually it isn't, as the company's first quarter performance shows. Yes, Tripadvisor has world-class traffic, and growing experiences and dining businesses, but it totally missed out on the short-term rental opportunity.

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

Tripadvisor Hotel Recovery Lags Rivals

Tourism

Food Tourism Is the Perfect Entrée for Greener Travel

It’s Earth Day 2022, marking yet another year on this planet with our outward cries on climate change and way too empty preachings on practicing sustainability. We all know for greener travel, change starts from the top down, or in the case of food tourism, from the Earth up. So ... who is really doing something?

Mary Ann Ha | 2 years ago

Food Tourism Is the Perfect Entrée for Greener Travel

Hotels

Hotels Refurbish to Take Advantage of More Guests Dining in Their Rooms

The pandemic has fundamentally changed the future of room service delivery methods, menus, and guest room design.

Carley Thornell, Skift | 2 years ago

Hotels Refurbish to Take Advantage of More Guests Dining in Their Rooms

Business Travel

Amex: Restaurants Are Biggest Part of Travel and Entertainment

Millennium and Gen Z cardholders spent way more on their American Express cards in the third quarter than they did during the same period in pre-Covid 2019. Surviving restaurants, many of which were left for dead in 2019, are one of the beneficiaries.

Niket Nishant and Noor Zainab Hussain, Reuters | 2 years ago

Amex: Restaurants Are Biggest Part of Travel and Entertainment

Online Travel

4 Charts Showing the Massive Global Travel Opportunity: Courtesy of Trip.com IPO Filing

As many private equity and other investors will tell you, massive opportunities remain in the travel industry over the long term. The travel market will undeniably look very different in 2025 than it does today. But if you believe Trip.com's projections, boom times are ahead for many companies.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 3 years ago

4 Charts Showing the Massive Global Travel Opportunity: Courtesy of Trip.com IPO Filing

Online Travel

OpenTable Gets New CEO in Executive Shuffle

It's really tough to judge a brand's performance in the midst of a pandemic, but OpenTable clearly deserved more focus given the fact that travel and dining are completely different businesses. Once again, travel and dining aren't always natural playmates.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 3 years ago

OpenTable Gets New CEO in Executive Shuffle

Online Travel

OpenTable and Kayak Bring Back 10 Percent of Furloughed Employees

If the dining and travel industries are looking for a bright spot during these dark days, then returning employees are a morsel to hang onto.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 3 years ago

OpenTable and Kayak Bring Back 10 Percent of Furloughed Employees