Articles tagged “olympics”

The Russian city will likely be technically ready to host the games, but don't look too closely at the construction. This is the country that gave us the term Potemkin Village.

Many of the parties -- from Heathrow to developers -- involved in the London Olympics reached out for help from previous Olympics hosts. Its success both throwing the games and retrofitting after them is due to largely to their willingness not to take anything for granted.

The last minute rush by Brits to cram in a vacation before it was too late this year led to shorter trips and the willingness to spend more before the season was complete.

Even business travelers are beginning to see value in controversial room-rental sites such as Airbnb, signaling what we already knew -- that the lodging world is being transformed.

The combination of viral, confessional social media and the locked-down environment of the most corporate Olympics ever is producing quite the sideshow this time around.

From shutting down Twitter accounts of critics to banning non-McDonalds french fries (unless sold with fish), this year's games have done an admirable job meeting the needs of corporate sponsors. But what about everyone else?

United new ad campaign for Team USA, plain vanilla as ever.

Normal training for a border officer is six to eight weeks, yet new staff managing desks are coming in with a day under their belts. When you layer on top the ambitious incompetence of the Home Office's political appointees, you've got a real mess on your hands.

The UK government is failing so often over such a long period of time on this front that it's hard to come up with an original, new Skift Take to address its incompetence.