Skift Take February was a surprisingly strong month for hotel task gains. Companies require to continue the momentum leading into the hectic summertime travel season, which is just a couple of months away. Cameron Sperance A better-than-expected tasks report saw the hospitality sector adding workers ahead of what many anticipate to be a record-setting travel season later this year. U.S. hotels...
Trip rental companies are ramping up their merger activity in hopes that a scale game will help them maximize a domestic boom in reservations. VTrips, a vacation rental residential or commercial property management business based in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, said it obtained Resort Collection and its 800 homes. The deal, revealed June 1, enhanced VTrips’ inventory by approximately a...
Skift Take Travel consultants function as representatives of the airlines when they process flight bookings. Why should they be accountable for issuing flight refunds when they are mere go-betweens and never ever see the cash? Dennis Schaal As the U.S. Department of Transport attempts to speed refunds for wayward flight reservations by making both airline companies and travel agencies...
Skift Take Strangely, airline companies are the upselling masters. But large hotels and short-term leasings have a lot more to cross-sell to travelers than any flying tin cans have. Calling all consumer brands and regional craftsmens: Here’s the brand-new “product positioning.” Sean O’Neill A handful of startup companies– Glimpse, The Host Co., LiBi, and...
Skift Take The Biden Administration, under Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg, is strolling the talk on safeguarding airline company customers. Divulging charges right off the bat is a considerable progress in passenger rights. Tom Lowry The U.S. Transport Department (USDOT) on Monday proposed needing airline companies divulge fees for luggage, ticket changes and household seating the very first...
Skift Take If it isn’t the pandemic, then it’s geopolitics and looming armed conflicts that continue to disrupt travel. Lebawit Lily Girma The Canadian federal government has actually advised its citizens to avoid non-essential travel to Ukraine due to “continuous Russian aggressiveness and military accumulation around the nation”. Foreign Minister Melanie Joly will check...
Skift Take Today’s edition of Skift’s everyday podcast looks at Ethiopa’s tourism healing, Alaska Air’s revenues, and a hotel variety effort. Rashaad Jorden Good early morning from Skift. It’s Monday, January 30. Here’s what you need to learn about business of travel today. Listen Now Subscribe Apple Podcasts|Spotify|Overcast|Google Podcasts Episode Notes...
Skift Take Good news for local tourist in Wyoming and environments, as Yellowstone presses ahead with a partial resuming after extraordinary flooding. Environment modification can’t hold back this figured out location. Tom Lowry Yellowstone National Park will partly resume on Wednesday after record flooding and rockslides following a burst of heavy rains that led the park to be closed for...
Hilton President and CEO Christopher Nassetta spoke with Skift CEO Rafat Ali at Skift Global Forum 2021. The two discussed the theme “How We Live and Work Has Changed for Good, Will Travel?” You can watch a full video of their discussion as well as read a transcript of it, below. Rafat Ali: Thank you, Chris, for being here. Christopher Nassetta: Great to be with you. Before we get started, I did...
Skift Take Live on phase at Skift Forum Europe recently, industry leaders shared their top-level perspective on the future of work, and hospitality. One of them was more ahead of the curve than others. A little too far, in fact. Skift The increasing crossover between work and hospitality was a hot topic at Skift Forum Europe. It was, inevitably, going to turn up throughout the day’s closing...