Skift Take The UK travel industry can finally see a light at the end of the tunnel as the gradual easing of the country’s numerous travel restrictions should lead to a surge in bookings. Rashaad Jorden British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will open up more countries for hotel quarantine-free travel later this week, The Sunday Telegraph reported, saying that the UK’s “red list” of...
Skift Take This summer travel season could be tremendously successful for train business if plans they have actually developed for the post-pandemic-era can record tourists’ interest. A big “if.” Rashaad Jorden Big numbers have been taking a trip so far this summer season. Airports are filling up again, cars– and traffic– are going back to the highways. But what...
Skift Take Traffic plunged 97 percent at the UK’s second busiest airport throughout the first half of the year, and Gatwick’s financial resources are a mess. Hence, the call for a reprieve to government leaders. Tom Lowry Britain’s Gatwick Airport urged the government to make international travel much easier after lockdown restrictions drove it to a first-half loss of 245...
Skift Take Booking.com has a substantial existence in the Middle East, but there is a vacuum that Wego Group and homegrown gamers could start to fill over the next few years. Dennis Schaal Singapore-headquartered Wego has traditionally been a regional metasearch organization, where travelers search for journeys and book them in other places, but the pending acquisition it revealed this week of...
Skift Take Britons, excited for a summer season vacation, raced to book travel to Portugal when that nation resumed. However the UK included Portugal to its more-restrictive travel tier, triggering a mad response from Portugal’s prime minister. Madhu Unnikrishnan Portugal’s prime minister slammed Britain on Sunday for removing his country from a COVID-19 quarantine-free travel list...
Skift Take In Skift’s top stories this week, how much were major U.S. airline CEOs paid in 2021 is revealed, events executives explain how labor shortages are hitting their industry hard, and travel disruptions in the United Kingdom are threatening the country’s economic recovery. Rashaad Jorden Throughout the week we are posting original stories night and day covering news and travel...
Skift Take Excellent morning from Skift. It’s Wednesday, January 12, in New York City. Here’s what you need to know about business of travel today. Rashaad Jorden Today’s edition of Skift’s day-to-day podcast talks about how online travel IPOs and SPACs are underperforming, Ecuador’s efforts to require transparency on online travel reserving business, and Denver...
Skift Take Skift creator and CEO Rafat Ali’s high ranking as a prominent travel leader comes from his desire to deal with major problems– especially news and patterns– in the travel market. Rashaad Jorden Skift creator and CEO Rafat Ali is being recognized as one of travel’s most influential leaders for 2022 by CRANT, a digital marketing company. CRANT, which utilized a...
Corporate retreats have long represented occasions for team member to collect in unwinded settings to perform work responsibilities. But organizing such events is positioning a challenge for companies that changed to operating from another location during the pandemic, as they make every effort to discover the right balance in between staff bonding, work and time for staff who want to concentrate...
Skift Take In Skift’s top stories this week, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby says the airline company will beat margin leader Delta Air Lines by enhancing the passenger experience, Accor executives discuss why the hotel giant has had a hard time to make inroads in the U.S., and American Airlines CEO Doug Parker expresses confidence that company travel will return to pre-pandemic levels...