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Sean O'Neill, Skift
An upside for cities like Berlin that tighten short-term rental supply through regulation is that they're less prone to price and occupancy shocks when something like the trade fair ITB Berlin cancels at the last minute.
1 month ago
Patrick Whyte, Skift
CEO Stephen Kaufer seems confident that the "new TripAdvisor" will be successful. We'll have to wait until later this year before we know whether it is helping the company earn more cash.
1 year ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
Europeans did more outbound international travel this year than last year. The pace of growth was not as torrid as in the past, however. Experts forecast a similar modest growth rate for 2019.
1 year ago
Patrick Whyte, Skift
We've been talking about overtourism for a while now and it's good to see cities getting more creative when it comes to managing numbers. Visitors are going to keep coming to the likes of Barcelona, Dubrovnik, and Amsterdam, and therefore these places are going to have to get smarter about managing the flow of people, whether they already live there or not.
2 years ago
Richard Weiss, Bloomberg
Berlin's airport saw a substantial boost in passengers last year and ground workers want to share in the uptick. The union and management don't appear to be too far apart in their demands, although the disruption will make things a lot more complicated to attendees of ITB Berlin.
3 years ago
Sarah Enelow, Skift
AIANTA wants to keep capitalizing on its success over the past couple of years, increasing tourism to Native American destinations. Its goals for 2020 are ambitious, but doable, given the stats so far.
3 years ago
Andrea Rothman, Bloomberg
Fitting that the country which connecting the world via its canal may now connect Latin America with some of the world's fastest growing markets by air.
4 years ago
Victoria Bryan, Reuters
Human empathy in hospitality is rather important, so we're pretty sure investment in humans will pay off better for brands in the long run.
4 years ago
Maria Sheahan and Victoria Bryan, Reuters
The seesaw of tourism growth is never ending, but a sound reminder that regions embroiled in even the worst of downturns will eventually rise again.
6 years ago
Samantha Shankman, Skift
Going by the generalized video and hotel recommendations, NYC & Company seems to be going for mass market headlines-only tourists, for whom TV and movie version of Brooklyn is the epitome of artisanal.
7 years ago
Reuters
The media and retailers’ obsession with shopaholic Chinese tourists could be more fiction than fact with experts pointing out the unlikely sites of history and culture that these tourists flock to and clearly crave.
7 years ago
