Articles tagged “pets”

The travel industry has finally caught on – pets aren’t just accessories, they’re family. Demographic changes, from animal-loving Gen Zers to seniors seeking companionship, are reshaping how the sector thinks about hospitality.

Toss out all the cliches about the woes of "a dog's life" because many dogs — and cats and other domesticated animals — are now living on Airbnb.

How would you like to be a Sonder exec boasting that your free cash flow margin improved from negative 127 percent a year ago to negative 37 percent in the second quarter? Well, that's one measure of progress.

Good morning from Skift. It's Wednesday, February 9, in New York City. Here's what you need to know about the business of travel today.

As the number of pet owners across the country spiked during the pandemic, the hotel of the future needs to be fit for man *and* man’s best friend like never before.

Passengers playing fast and loose with the rules in order to stay close to their pets and save a little money, too, further degrade the already degraded flying experience.

Add expensive hotels and ancillary costs to the fee charged by airlines to fly with pets and taking a pooch on the road quickly becomes a luxury that makes traveling with kids seem cheap.

While hotels have been doing more marketing about their pet-friendliness, airlines have been regressing as a rule, and it shows in this survey. But sooner or later, travel industry -- potentially working with services like DogVacay -- will have to do more to address the high spending user base.

This is a pet project that we can support. Anything that can help passengers loosen up and take the stress out of travel has to be a good thing.

The 2% of Lufthansa's freight income that rolls in thanks to animals is nothing to sneeze at, even if you are an allergic flyer.