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Travel Trends

Media and PR

A new take on the digital detox: Silicon Valley summer camp

Although the buzz surrounding digital detoxes continues, the concept's been around long enough that savvy travelers realize they can create their own detox with a little will power and a stern concierge.

Isabel Choat, The Guardian | 11 years ago

A new take on the digital detox: Silicon Valley summer camp

Hotels

Ten trends the hotel industry should watch for during Chinese tourism boom

These trends are generalizations at best and stereotypes at worst, but attempt to give hotels an inside look at what drives the decisions of their most coveted travelers.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 11 years ago

Ten trends the hotel industry should watch for during Chinese tourism boom
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Airlines

Three ways mobile will change the way we travel by 2015

The rate of innovation in mobile technology suggests that even if security still takes too long and seats are too small, flyers can at least rely on updated flight statuses and hassle-free check-ins.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 11 years ago

Three ways mobile will change the way we travel by 2015

Media and PR

High-end travelers look for expert trip-planning advice, but not from travel agents

These specific examples won't all survive, but they speak to the next solution to travelers' needs and the failure of traditional travel agents to evolve.

Lola Pedro, Daily Telegraph | 11 years ago

Tourism

Hottest new trends in outdoor tourism: wool, carbon skis & spoon-shaped sleeping bag

The outdoor adventure gear industry, despite being huge at around $300 billion in U.S. alone, has been under the radar in mainstream consciousness, and yet growing at 5 percent a year even during recessionary times.

Paul Foy, Associated Press | 11 years ago

Hottest new trends in outdoor tourism: wool, carbon skis & spoon-shaped sleeping bag

Skift Originals

Skift global trend for 2013: Travelers are hungry for food tourism

Food tourism has the potential to be the next big growth market as the hunger for more authentic and local experiences among tourists rise.

Rafat Ali, Skift | 11 years ago

Skift global trend for 2013: Travelers are hungry for food tourism

Skift Originals

The future of tourism in the new “New Economy”

Travel and tourism as the next lever to help grow the world economies out of poverty and into development, surely we can all get behind that.

Skift | 11 years ago

The future of tourism in the new “New Economy”

Airlines

The inexorable decline of loyalty in travel

As consumers use online and mobile tools to jump across all kind of industry-defined value chains, loyalty programs are becoming outdated and need a wholesale rethink.

Rafat Ali, Skift | 11 years ago

The inexorable decline of loyalty in travel

Airlines

Skift global trend for 2013: Ancillary fees are the new normal, and it isn’t just airlines

The unbundling of industries is a trend happening across every sector, and travel is leading through airlines and now hotels as well.

Rafat Ali, Skift | 11 years ago

Skift global trend for 2013: Ancillary fees are the new normal, and it isn’t just airlines

Airlines

Why airport hotels keep getting bigger and better

Airport hotels don't only depend on bad weather for success. The better ones fill a niche in the airport's suite of services or become a destination on their own.

Skift | 11 years ago