Articles tagged “travel trends”

This week's tourism news is all about cruising. News Editor Hannah Sampson reported from the Seatrade conference on overtourism, breaking cruise stereotypes, and the pitfalls of focusing exclusively on millennials.

This week's digital news brought Google to the fore. First, Facebook is trying to compete with the search giant on travel ads, but secondly, why is Google burying the lowest hotel rates?

This week in hospitality, we dug into the issue of Marriott's meetings commission cuts and broke down what's really behind each of Radisson's eight hotel brands.

This week in aviation, big players were fighting. Ryanair filed a lawsuit against Expedia over screen-scraping, and American is challenging Chicago O'Hare over its deal with United.

This week in digital news, we analyzed tools for events as well as earnings from Amadeus and Booking. Don't miss our upcoming Skift Call on March 13 on how online travel agencies are dealing with the Airbnb threat.

This week in tourism, the U.S. government was on our minds as we covered the Visit U.S. Coalition, overtourism in national parks, and companies cutting ties with the NRA.

This week in hospitality, we looked at the loyalty programs of Hyatt and Mandarin Oriental, but Airbnb dominated the news yet again. Don't miss our next Skift Call on March 13 tackling the way hotels and online travel agencies are dealing with the Airbnb threat.

This week our hospitality editor reported from San Francisco, analyzing what's really behind Airbnb's not-so-surprising new launches, among them a long-awaited loyalty program.

This week in aviation, we dug into what went wrong with United's Polaris business class service, and thought about how many bells and whistles a frequent flyer really wants.

This week in tourism, we had theme parks covered. Disney is opening a new Toy Story-themed land ahead of the Star Wars expansion, and Six Flags reported earnings with talk of tax reform and keeping some parks open year-round.