Skift Take While much of the talk nowadays is about digital nomads and remote workers, both Expedia Group and Booking Holdings have actually doubled down on dedications to traditional head office. Which might imply that there might be real workplaces again after the pandemic. Dennis Schaal, Skift From the precise pandemic toll on their short-term rental numbers to building and construction...
Skift Take Spain’s vaccination record has actually given visitors a level of comfort that motivates travel. Regardless of the present Omicron speed bump it will still be well placed to rebound faster than other locations. Jason Clampet The variety of foreign travelers coming to Spain leapt fivefold in October from the very same month a year ago to 5.13 million as an easing of travel curbs...
Packed intercontinental flights touched down and individuals accepted loved ones at land borders on Monday after the United States lifted constraints troubled visitors from much of the world when the COVID-19 pandemic started. The travel restriction, very first imposed in early 2020, had actually barred access to non-U.S. people taking a trip from 33 countries– including China, India and...
Skift Take Delta Air Lines is getting public relations blowback by not mandating its staff members be immunized. Delta indicates its voluntary vaccination program as a success, however the Atlanta-based carrier said it will fall into line when the federal government requires contractors to immunize teams. Madhu Unnikrishnan As more significant U.S. airline companies followed suit today to require...
AirAsia Digital is including a ridesharing service to its AirAsia superapp with the launch this week of AirAsia Ride in Malaysia. With its launching, AirAsia Trip will give Malaysians another ridehailing alternative besides Grab, the Singaporean-headquartered superapp with a fortress in Southeast Asia and Malaysia. Strategies are in the works to expand AirAsia Trip’s reach to Thailand not...
Anne Rigail, CEO of Air France, had a lot to talk about during Skift Forum Europe 2022. Coming out of Covid, the flag carrier faces upheaval with the war in Ukraine and resulting spikes in fuel costs. But despite this, she remains bullish for the future, she told Seth Borko, Skift’s senior research analyst, during the event in London on March 24. Yes, fares will go up (economy-class fares on...
Skift Take Have a look at last year’s hotel CEO settlement tables. The top managers succeeded, and why not? Navigating the pandemic was tricky. Yet there was a large variation in the pay in between most CEOs and employees. That’s more difficult to defend. Sean O’Neill Rob Goldstein, CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp., was last year’s best-paid public hotel business CEO...
Skift Take Tour operators are puzzled by Germany’s move to expand the value added tax because they believe it not only threatens its tourism recovery, but because they believe German authorities didn’t think through the decision. Rashaad Jorden Despite largely making progress in their recovery from the pandemic, tour operators still face challenges in hitting pre-Covid metrics. And...
Skift Take Scaling up its tours and activities Musement organization with its brand-new online representative partners could assist the travel giant recover from repeated blows to its core package vacation organization. Matthew Parsons, Skift Packaged vacations operator TUI’s first-half results hammered home the severity of the pandemic: profits was $868 million for the six months to March...
Skift Take The aviation market’s target of accomplishing net no emissions is an essential action to fight environment change but it will be tremendously difficult as the number of people requiring to the skies reveals no indications of decreasing– particularly as locations are resuming. IATA’s brand-new hire of a market outsider signals that it will be a concern. Rashaad Jorden...