Articles tagged “skift research”

Amidst spearheading global travel recovery, the Middle East's ambitious tourism goals come across as pragmatic rather than overly ambitious, backed by strategic capacity building efforts

Today's edition of Skift's daily podcast looks closer at the state of travel, Wi-Fi on planes, and Mondees’ new AI tools.

Our new report hands you everything you need to know about the current state of travel in one slide deck. That's 250+ data slides, covering travel and tourism's performance, the latest consumer and business trends, and overviews of all important sectors within the travel sphere.

The Skift Travel Health Index shows that all regions have recovered, but Europe's travel revival appears to be rather slow. With 17 out of 22 countries having fully recovered and Europe being a popular summer hotspot, the global travel industry has geared up for a bright summer season.

Travel landscape undergoes reversal as solo trips decline, blended travel dips, urban travel rebounds, and work shifts to hybrid models, reflecting changing preferences.

Get a preview of our latest output from our Hotel Tech Benchmark data product. In this update, Skift Research looks closely at the best uses of digital marketing and advertising tools.

Marriott and Hilton are similar in many ways, with both brands carrying the names of their founding families, both being asset-light players and both largely based in the U.S. This concise 20 chart fact-book compares their key performance indicators – the differences can be meaningful in explaining future stock price performance.

Today's edition of Skift's daily podcast looks closer at tourism recovery across the world, huge airplane orders in India, and an expanding boutique hotel brand.

The Skift Travel Health Index continued to point to a full global travel recovery in May 2023. With 14 out of 22 countries having fully recovered and some overtaking pre-pandemic performance, we anticipate the index to soon significantly surpass 2019 levels.

Unlike Booking and Expedia, which continue to spend to acquire customers from Google – not dare bite the hand that feeds them – Hopper doesn’t list on any search platform. It gets more of its customers through direct channels.