Articles tagged “SkiftX Showcase: Technology”

Artificial intelligence (AI) is helping hospitality revenue managers adapt to shifting consumer preferences and rising competition. With AI-enabled dynamic pricing, predictive analytics, and personalization at scale, companies can drive profitability in an unpredictable market.

Hotel chains today often struggle with fragmented distribution channels and complex wholesale rate management. Maintaining an offline distribution network can be costly and time-consuming and often requires substantial discounts and…

A new trend report offers actionable strategies to help travel brands do more than increase membership numbers, empowering them to create differentiated programs that will inspire lifetime loyal customers.

As the business travel landscape evolves, travel managers face growing pressures to deliver seamless experiences and efficient solutions for their teams. Southwest’s focus on digital tools, personalized service, and hospitality-driven innovations aims to simplify travel management and support a smoother, more flexible journey for business travelers.

Millennial and Gen Z travelers are stress-testing hotels’ ability to keep up with customer technology preferences. Hotel owners and operators need to seek out creative tech features and amenities to help them compete in an ever-changing travel landscape.

As Gen Z and millennial travelers increase their travel spending, they’re turning to social media to discover, plan, and share life-changing travel. Snap’s native features and core principles support travelers across the trip life cycle while helping brands attract and convert these high-value consumers.

Today’s consumers expect loyalty programs to offer travel rewards — even if the program is offered by a company outside the travel industry. Expedia Group Private Label Solutions gives brands access to global travel inventory and the tech required to integrate travel rewards into existing loyalty programs without reinventing the wheel.

In recent years, both the timeshare experience and the demographics of timeshare ownership have evolved considerably. At Skift Global Forum, ARDA CEO Jason Gamel explored how the vacation ownership industry is innovating, modernizing, and expanding its offerings to satisfy the expectations of today’s travelers.

At the Skift Global Forum in New York, we polled travel industry decision-makers to determine how they approach the rise of experiences, how they think about shifting traveler behaviors, and how technology impacts modern booking processes.

Following years of stagnant innovation, flight search is on the cusp of becoming a richer experience. Through the use of AI, airlines and ticket sellers can close decades-old gaps between what travelers expect and what companies have been able to deliver.