Articles tagged “travel trends”

This week's tourism news included a debate on human interaction. Business travelers want to be left alone, but millennial leisure travelers attend events compulsively because they're dying of FOMO, or fear of missing out.

This week in aviation news, airlines manage to hold onto their customers despite some unpopular actions, whether its devaluing miles or dragging someone off a plane.

This week's hospitality news was all about long-term growth. Skift got an inside look into the strategies of Pod Hotels, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and Design Hotels.

This week's digital news focused on advertising. Numerous travel campaigns won at Cannes Lions, and Carnival and Trivago throw more money and weight behind their ad efforts.

This week, airlines split the difference between profitability and customer satisfaction. SAS competes with both low-cost and legacy carriers, and Skift gets an inside look at designing a new coach seat.

This week's digital news is about new frontiers. Booking.com gets into flights, cars, and restaurants; cryptocurrencies gain traction in payments; and the meetings industry tries using influencers.

This week in tourism, Trump's travel ban demands "bona fide" connections in the U.S. In other government news, mayors tell Skift how they deal with undesirable tourism identities.

This week in hospitality, hotel CEOs stated the obvious -- they love direct booking -- and debated how exactly to lean less on those costly online travel agency bookings.

This week in tourism news, we dove deep into meetings and events. What does the keynote speaker of the future look like, and how can conference planners leverage such an asset?

This week in hospitality, we saw midscale hotels getting more sophisticated about tech and design, which is great for the customer so long as the brand actually has a name.