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Articles tagged “tours”

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Online Travel

How Automating Tours and Activities Benefits Travel Resellers, Advisors and Travelers

For the fragmented tours and activities sector, delivering a diverse, globally distributed set of product offerings at scale requires technology solutions that can benefit travel advisors, procurement teams, and individual travelers alike.

Livn + Skift | 4 years ago

How Automating Tours and Activities Benefits Travel Resellers, Advisors and Travelers

Business Travel

Tour Business Viator Opts for Quality Over Quantity With the Land Grab Ending

With competitors like GetYourGuide, Klook, Airbnb and Booking.com strengthening their asrsenals, market leader Viator will enforce new quality standards that would make it more user-friendly and efficient. If these and other moves don't work, then look out for a new No. 1.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago

Tour Business Viator Opts for Quality Over Quantity With the Land Grab Ending

Airlines

The Travel Industry Refunds Conundrum: Survival Versus Doing the Right Thing

If you ordered a book and it never arrived, you'd expect a refund. Simple. But if you booked a hotel and couldn't get there because of lockdowns, you'd probably have to fight with the hotel or online travel agency for your refund — unless the government required cash back.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago

Airlines

A Recovery Timeline and 25 Other Top Cororonavirus Stories This Week

In travel-related coronavirus stories this week, Skift covered potential recovery timelines, layoffs at Tripadvisor and Kayak, Aribnb's vision of an era of travel redistribution, lessons for hoteliers from 9/11 and SARS, and Hilton's partnership to enhance its cleaning protocols, among many other topics.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago

A Recovery Timeline and 25 Other Top Cororonavirus Stories This Week

Coronavirus

Google Should Stop Bill Collection for First Quarter, 8 Travel Startups Demand

Google has a huge travel advertising business. If Google's advertising partners had to hand out tons of refunds to consumers for coronavirus-tinged trips that never happened, shouldn't Google, with its deep pockets, share in the pain?

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago

Tourism

New Virtual Tour of Wuhan Dispels Coronavirus City Reputation

Wuhan may be a household name now — but not for the greatest of reasons. With its "Spotlight Series" of online tours, tour company Walks wants to try and change that.

Rosie Spinks, Skift | 4 years ago

New Virtual Tour of Wuhan Dispels Coronavirus City Reputation

Business Travel

The Case for Why Airbnb’s Foray Into Experiences Is a Fundamental Mistake

It is highly risky for Airbnb to pivot to compete directly as an online travel agency, and it needs to seriously think about whether its sharing model truly extends to the activity, experience provider because in reality it doesn't.

Carl Shepherd, Skift | 4 years ago

The Case for Why Airbnb’s Foray Into Experiences Is a Fundamental Mistake

Tourism

New Unique Tours Draw Americans to Singapore But Creators Face Cost Issues

A new generation of entrepreneurs is creating unique tours for visitors to Singapore. But fighting legacy tour players and online travel giants only makes the high costs of doing business harder to do business.

Yixin Ng, Skift | 4 years ago

New Unique Tours Draw Americans to Singapore But Creators Face Cost Issues

Business Travel

How the California Wildfires Are Impacting Tourism

Several years of devastating wildfires have taken a toll on California tourism but have not affected overall visitor numbers. Instead, the fires have changed the way the state markets itself and made it harder for tourism employees to live in California.

Maria Lenhart, Skift | 4 years ago

Business Travel

Travel Advisors See Growing Demand for Women-Only Tours That Promote Empowerment

A proliferation of women-only tours reflects the fact that women are a driving force behind the trend for experiential and adventure-oriented travel. The tours enable participants to interact with women from cultures far different than their own.

Maria Lenhart, Skift | 5 years ago

Travel Advisors See Growing Demand for Women-Only Tours That Promote Empowerment