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Hotels

Surging Hotel Rates Spur Cost-Conscious Travelers to Trade Down in Creative Ways

House-sitting platforms are in prime position to take advantage of surging travel demand. It's an affordable travel option for many compared to hotels and some short-term rental properties.

Doyinsola Oladipo, Reuters | 11 months ago

News Blog

Pets Are Now Living on Airbnb

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. That's because during the first six months of 2022, around 25 percent of the nights booked that included a pet were for stays lasting 28 days or…

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

Short-Term Rentals

Sonder Announces a Stock Option Exchange Plan to Retain Employees

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.

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

Online Travel

Daily Podcast: Ticketmaster’s Travel Play

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.

Rashaad Jorden | 2 years ago

Hotels

Hotels Adjust Accommodation Strategies for Pandemic Pet Boom

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.

Carley Thornell, Skift | 2 years ago

Airlines

Service Dogs on Airplanes to Get More Scrutiny From Department of Transportation

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.

Samantha Drake, Skift | 10 years ago

Hotels

The Luxury of TripAdvisor’s Most Pet-Friendly Hotels in the U.S.

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.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 11 years ago

Skift Originals

The state of pet travel in United States

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.

Rafat Ali, Skift | 11 years ago