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Tourism
Bars, nightclubs, theme parks and museums will be the winners this summer. The "experience economy" is back.
Mary Ann Ha and Matthew Parsons, Skift | 2 years ago
Online Travel
Does Vacasa’s technology and scale really give it a defensible position in North America? Moats are so overrated.
Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago
Travel Agents
Although some travel companies have succeeded in finding suitable restaurants for clients via OpenTable, the fact they've had to resort to the platform is a sign of how difficult planning travel has become during the pandemic.
Rashaad Jorden | 2 years ago
Business Travel
Millennium and Gen Z cardholders spent way more on their American Express cards in the third quarter than they did during the same period in pre-Covid 2019. Surviving restaurants, many of which were left for dead in 2019, are one of the beneficiaries.
Niket Nishant and Noor Zainab Hussain, Reuters | 3 years ago
Is the kingdom carving out a reputation as a new epicurean center for the Middle East?
Davide Barbuscia and Marwa Rashad, Reuters | 3 years ago
Tripadvisor's travel-planning help by text for Tripadvisor Plus subscribers plays to the company's strengths — user reviews and a global roster of hotels, restaurants and things to do listings. It really can't compete, though, with a real travel agent who has visited the destination and knows the hotel general manager personally.
Dennis Schaal, Skift | 3 years ago
Coronavirus
U.S. hotels continue to post strong job numbers thanks to summer leisure travel demand, but the industry can't afford to ride on blind optimism. The Delta variant throwing a wrench in the expected return of business travel will show up in jobs reports later this year.
Cameron Sperance, Skift | 3 years ago
If England was really seeking to jumpstart tourism again, then easing rules on events and restaurant occupancy would certainly boost the process.
Estelle Shirbon, Reuters | 3 years ago
The latest peaks in Covid-19 cases are dealing a blow to thousands of small businesses. Without tourists over Easter in Prague, how long can they hold on for?
Michael Kahn and Robert Muller, Reuters | 3 years ago
The pandemic has accelerated the evolution of contactless payments from being about cost savings to addressing the overall guest experience. Continuing down the path from contactless to contact-free is the best course of action for customer-focused enterprise hotel and restaurant companies.
Shiji Group + Skift | 3 years ago
