Skift Take Travel bureau are hectic deploying plans to assist Latin American fans pay for flights and lodging for the FIFA World Cup in light of high exchange rates. Those rabid fútbol fans are topping the international demand lists for tickets. Paula Krizanovic Regardless of soaring economies and poor currency exchange rate for traveling, Latin American nations are at the top of the list for...
Skift Take No worldwide tourists will be allowed at the upcoming winter season video games in Beijing, but organizers are selecting certain groups to participate in events. Thirty-percent capability may be positive. Tom Lowry Organisers of the Beijing 2022 Winter season Olympics are wishing for stadium capacities of at least 30% despite China’s enforcement of tight guidelines to include the...
Skift Take Great early morning from Skift. It’s Wednesday, February 23, in New York City. Here’s what you need to understand about business of travel today. Rashaad Jorden Today’s edition of Skift’s day-to-day podcast goes over the cuts behind IHG’s favorable profits season, European leaders’ efforts to manage environment modification, and TripAdvisor’s...
Skift Take Out with the old. In with the new. The Mirage is the aging grand dame in the MGM Resorts Las Vegas portfolio compared to newer prize offers like handling the Cosmopolitan. Cameron Sperance Even MGM Resorts strikes a limitation on just how much of Sin City it can take. The company, which operates about 40,000 hotel spaces throughout 13 resorts in Las Vegas, prepares to offer operations...
As the war for talent heats up, companies having a hard time to hire could do well to consider taking advantage of co-living communities. That’s according to Mark Biery, who heads up Selina’s Co-Live remote work program. More than 3,000 individuals have invested at least one month in this program because August 2020, paying from $450 a month, while it currently has 450 members on site...
TUI Group has been staffing up on technologists as it automates crucial processes, such as dealing with airport transfers and customer care. It’s all part of a wider digitization trend by Europe’s biggest holiday bundle operator. The travel group, headquartered in Hannover, has about 600 software application designers, up from about 100 seven years earlier, stated TUI Group’s...
Skift Take It’s captivating that Jane Sun of Trip.com believes that China’s remote and hybrid working plans are helping domestic leisure travel to recuperate. That echoes forecasts from Airbnb’s CEO Brian Chesky and others about how hybrid working might boost travel for some time to come. Sean O’Neill China’s domestic leisure travel demand will probably recover in...
Skift Take Behind the investor cravings as American Express Global Organization Travel prepares to go public. Matthew Parsons A number of travel and hospitality business are poised to make their stock exchange debuts later this year, with one in specific that might stump a great deal of individuals as it runs in the corporate travel sector– a sector that’s been devastated by the...
Skift Take Flight Centre Travel Group is a worldwide travel bureau so it ought to be able to handle Air New Zealand and Qantas navigating to slashing travel representative commissions two decades after Delta Air Lines began the pattern in the U.S. It will not be without some pain, however. Dennis Schaal 20 years after U.S. airlines got rid of base commissions for travel agencies...
Skift Take Google didn’t acquiesce airline company pressure on this one, nor is it trying to greenwash. Rather, Google is trying to get the data right on the non-CO2 environment effect of flights. Dennis Schaal If you are browsing Google Flights to pick a New York to London roundtrip in mid-September, and you want to schedule the flight with the lowest nasty impact to environment...