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Travel Technology
If necessity is the mother of invention, its first cousin must be travel demand. The coming rebound is spawning a surge in innovative thinking.
Sean O'Neill | 1 month ago
Business Travel
The Global Business Travel Association has had a rough ride over the past two years. Its convention in Orlando later this month represents a chance to turn a corner, and it wants to bring the industry along with it.
Matthew Parsons | 3 months ago
Luxury
For Marc Gibson, building a more diverse travel industry requires creating a path to leadership for youth. Explore Charleston's new internship collaboration with historically Black colleges and universities shows it can be done when everyone commits to change — tourism boards, hospitality businesses, universities, and students.
Lebawit Lily Girma, Skift | 6 months ago
Airlines
Following the global reckoning of a lack of diversity and inclusion, will United Airlines' push for a more inclusive cockpit be the way of the future, or will it fizzle out? As more pilots retire, the new faces will tell their own story.
Ruthy Muñoz, Skift | 10 months ago
Coronavirus
Diversity in leadership makes a company better — period. While to be commended for laying the groundwork for advancing diversity when hiring picks back up, Hilton and other hotel companies can't stop with their latest diversity targets. This needs to be a long-term initiative across the entire industry.
Cameron Sperance, Skift | 10 months ago
Tourism
Work to transform diversity and inclusion, particularly in tourism, takes guts — like South Africa’s groundbreaking new public-private fund for Black-owned tourism projects. It might just be precedent-setting.
Lebawit Lily Girma, Skift | 11 months ago
The first full-time, diversity-focused organization for U.S. travel launched this week as destination marketers, trade groups and publicists are also collaborating on solutions to equity, diversity and inclusion barriers in tourism. It’s long and shamefully overdue — but promising, since change begins from the C-suites down.
Lebawit Lily Girma, Skift | 12 months ago
Hotel companies like Hilton can't let the catastrophic impact of coronavirus deter diversity and inclusion initiatives at all levels of employment and ownership.
Cameron Sperance, Skift | 2 years ago
It will likely take years for the wellness industry to really fix its diversity problem. But the process could speed up if more people start to speak out about it.
Leslie Barrie, Skift | 2 years ago
U.S. attractions could do a much better job of serving travelers of color. It's not just a matter of marketing and content curation but hiring practices as well.
Sarah Enelow-Snyder, Skift | 3 years ago
