With every hotel business attempting to get a foothold in the lifestyle hotel area, one of the initial players is out to reveal it can still matter. The nearly 60-hotel W Hotels brand name becomes part of the structure to today’s lifestyle hotel section, hotels that focus on food and beverage offerings more than the average property. The brand, come from by Barry Sternlicht and ultimately...
Skift Take Today’s podcast discusses Beyonce’s hotel bounce, Airbnb’s New York City concerns, and 5 airline styles for next week. Rashaad Jorden Great morning from Skift. It’s Wednesday, October 25. Here’s what you need to know about business of travel today. Listen Now Subscribe Apple Podcasts|Spotify|Overcast|Google Podcasts|Amazon Podcasts Episode Notes Taylor...
Skift Take For the determined mask challengers, this brand-new edict from the Nevada governor might be the motivation to get immunized. That need to be welcome news for occasion coordinators and big places, particularly in hard-hit Las Vegas. Tom Lowry Nevada guv Steve Sisolak said late on Monday that big occasion operators will be permitted to opt out of the state’s mask requirements if...
Skift Take In this video from the 2021 Skift Design The Future occasion, we hear from Hubilo and EventMB about best practices for the future of online occasions across both virtual and hybrid environments. Hubilo This sponsored content was produced in collaboration with a Skift partner. In this video: Designing the future of best-in-class occasions: A take a look at how Hubilo designs more...
Skift Take Guest-facing tech has actually acquired popularity over the last couple of years, particularly due to its contactless abilities. While there is a great deal of financial investment in this landscape and growing interest from hoteliers and visitors, it is still mainly in its infancy with a lot of possible to grow. Saniya Zanpure The guest-facing tech services help with efficient...
Skift Take Propped up by a suppressed demand to take a trip and moved by growing brand name conversions, Wyndham looks to be on the path to a strong recovery locally. Its only concerns would be the Delta version that could perhaps reinstate travel constraints globally. Angel Adegbesan, Skift The demand for customer getaway and the bottled-up need to travel aided Wyndham Hotels and Resorts in...
Skift Take These are oddly precarious and hopeful times. These are the big questions I have as travel is poised for a big recovery, even as some answers have actually emerged in the last year. Rafat Ali Before we know it, we will be two years into this coronavirus pandemic, two years through the hardest times the travel industry has actually ever dealt with in modern-day history. In the ignorant...
Skift Take Excellent early morning from Skift. It’s Friday, June 3, in New York City. Here’s what you require to understand about the business of travel today. Rashaad Jorden Today’s edition of Skift’s everyday podcast discusses what’s driving tourism now, how Instagram is the new Google, and why KLM’s outgoing CEO is positive about post-pandemic tourism...
Skift Take In January, 40 percent of Americans took a trip, only 5 portion points lower than January 2020, before the pandemic hit. While we anticipate to see a lot more normalcy in travel as we move more detailed to another travel season, where the economy is heading might have an effect, as majority of Americans now believe the U.S. economy will become worse in the next 12 months. Haixia Wang...
CitizenM has received a lot of acclaim for its innovative use of technology, which CEO Klaas van Lookeren Campagne believes has helped the Dutch-based hotel chain improve the visitor. But van Lookeren Campagne told Skift Senior Travel Tech Editor Sean O’Neill at March 24 at Skift Forum Europe 2022 that the citizenM faces challenges such as international business travel, which the company relies...