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Skift Travel Megatrends 2025

In January 2021 we released our annual travel industry trends forecast, Skift Megatrends. Because of the havoc that the pandemic triggered, we wrote Travel Megatrends 2025 as a vision of how travel industry dynamics could play out five years from now. You can read about each of the trends on Skift, below, or download a copy of Skift Travel Megatrends 2025 here.

Hotels

Travel Megatrends 2025: More Mainstream Short-Term Rentals Cope With New Headwinds

In a push-and-pull scenario, short-term rentals are even more of a mainstream option in 2025 despite cities around the world increasingly regulating their growth.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 3 years ago

Online Travel

Travel Megatrends 2025: Renewed Strength Matters in the Future

Liquidity was the lifeline for the strongest travel companies coming out of the pandemic, and the best managements could financially engineer their ways through the crisis. Weaker companies with fewer resources sold assets at steep discounts, and dropped out.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 3 years ago

Tourism

Travel Megatrends 2025: Travel’s New Cadence Is More Deliberate, Introspective and Soulful

With prospects for winning the planet’s climate change confrontation after the horrific pandemic not appreciably improved in 2025, the travel industry and travelers rethink their operations and the way they wander the globe, respectively. Fear is a fantastic motivator.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 3 years ago

Hotels

Travel Megatrends 2025: Hotels Are Back With Big Upsides for Owners That Stuck Out the Hard Times

Corporate travel planners and event bookers hold the key to the financial fate for much of the hotel industry. But struggling hotel owners who made it to the other side of the pandemic were likely to see greater profits because of supply constraints and many weaker competitors succumbed.

Cameron Sperance, Skift | 3 years ago

Announcements

Skift Megatrends 2025: Download Your Copy Now

For this year's installment of our annual Megatrends, we look far into the future to better explain where the travel industry is headed after one of the most challenging years in recent history.

Jason Clampet, Skift | 3 years ago

Announcements

Megatrends 2025: How Abu Dhabi is Adapting Its Events Strategy

In order to approach the same level of quality and engagement as in-person experiences, virtual and hybrid events need to be designed with safety and innovation as guiding principles. Event planners need an agile, forward-thinking destination partner to deliver on ever-changing attendee expectations.

Skift | 3 years ago

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Hotels

Megatrends 2025: Pushing the Boundaries of Lifestyle for the New Era of Travel

Successful brands demonstrate high levels of resilience during economic and business cycles. With fewer barriers, limitations, and investments in brand-wide standardizations, lifestyle hospitality brands are able to pivot more quickly in the face of today’s challenges.

Accor Group + Skift | 3 years ago

Online Travel

Megatrends 2025: Brands That Embrace Agility and Flexibility Will Be Equipped for the Future of Travel

The Covid-19 pandemic proved that brands that are able to quickly evolve their offerings to meet the shifting needs of customers are the ones that will not only survive, but come out stronger through their ability to adapt. The importance of embracing agility is one lesson brands can take into 2021 and beyond.

Skift | 3 years ago

Announcements

A Preview of Skift’s Megatrends 2025 Event on January 13

This year's Megatrends looks ahead past the pandemic to envision the lasting trends and consumer habits that will impact the travel industry. Join editors and research analysts as they dissect what the business of travel might look like in 2025.

Brian Quinn, Skift | 3 years ago