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Articles tagged “flights”

Business Travel

Travel Advisor Innovation Report: Bleisure Trend a Mixed Blessing for Agents

As more business travelers view their trips as working vacations, travel advisors must draw on both corporate and leisure travel-planning skills. It's no simple challenge, but it's necessary given the strength of the bleisure travel trend.

Maria Lenhart, Skift | 5 years ago

Travel Advisor Innovation Report: Bleisure Trend a Mixed Blessing for Agents

Online Travel

Google Is Rigged. Just Not the Way Trump Thinks It Is.

Google clearly places its own travel businesses front and center in its search results to the detriment of competitors. Google argues that this benefits consumers. If you buy that argument, then you also probably believe that Google always knows best.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 6 years ago

Google Is Rigged. Just Not the Way Trump Thinks It Is.
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Online Travel

Four Reasons Why Travel Tech Providers Should Invest in Premium Flight Data Solutions

In today’s increasingly mobile-first world, leveraging timely flight and schedule information and solutions gives travel technology providers an edge over competitors and creates long-lasting relationships with customers.

OAG + Skift | 6 years ago

Four Reasons Why Travel Tech Providers Should Invest in Premium Flight Data Solutions

Hotels

Airbnb Won’t Launch Flights Anytime Soon

Can Airbnb become a superbrand of travel, as it has stated as a goal? Probably not without launching flights. On the other hand, Booking.com has done fairly well for itself without offering flights until now.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 6 years ago

Airbnb Won’t Launch Flights Anytime Soon

Airlines

5 Ways to Humanize the Next Big Thing in Aviation — Super-Long Flights

As flights tip over the 17-hour mark, airlines need to be thinking about ways to raise the level of civility on these uncomfortable trips.

Colin Nagy, Skift | 6 years ago

Airlines

SkyTeam Eases the Hassle of Getting Rebooked When Flights Get Disrupted

Casual travelers often think airlines in the same alliance love to cooperate with each other. That's not always true. They're often fierce competitors. At least SkyTeam has developed new technology that is designed to make it easier for airlines to rebook customers during irregular operations.

Brian Sumers, Skift | 6 years ago

SkyTeam Eases the Hassle of Getting Rebooked When Flights Get Disrupted

Tourism

Interview: Argentina Tourism Minister Dreams of Visa Free Travel Across the Region

Argentina is breaking from the past and hopes that its diversity of offerings attracts new types of travelers. The tourism minister comes from the private sector and he's bringing new energy into tourism promotion efforts.

Rafat Ali, Skift | 6 years ago

Interview: Argentina Tourism Minister Dreams of Visa Free Travel Across the Region

Online Travel

Airbnb Mulled Integrating Skyscanner for Flights and Buying Hopper

Airbnb has sold investors on a growth story based, in part, on adding flights and other products. But selling flights is extremely complicated.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 6 years ago

Airbnb Mulled Integrating Skyscanner for Flights and Buying Hopper

Business Travel

Business Class Fares to Europe Will Get Even More Expensive in 2018

Business travel demand is high, and so too are travel costs. Growing global instability in the political and economic realms, however, could disrupt these trends and drive costs down.

Andrew Sheivachman, Skift | 6 years ago

Business Class Fares to Europe Will Get Even More Expensive in 2018

Hotels

AccorHotels Plans to Test Selling Flights on Its Website

Leave it to AccorHotels to be a pioneer. Whether it's buying an alternative accommodations provider like onefinestay or adding independent hotels to its online booking channels, the company isn't afraid to pilot new concepts and ways of doing things.

Deanna Ting, Skift | 7 years ago

AccorHotels Plans to Test Selling Flights on Its Website