Skift Take HomeToGo has actually been outracing rivals and disproving skeptics. The metasearch brand name runs operations efficiently. For example, it uses a membership design to home supervisors who list with it, which design appears to be more consistently successful than charging standard pure commissions. Sean O’Neill HomeToGo, a travel startup focused on trip rental cost contrast and...
Skift Take The pandemic has been both a blessing and a curse for destination marketing with restricted budgets, a broadened scope of work, and a breather to rethink and restructure. This year will be pivotal for laying the groundwork to evolve nimbly in line with travel trends and to enhance organizational efficiencies. Varsha Arora The scope of work for destination marketing organizations (DMOs)...
Skift Take Major hotel companies are recognizing that trust issues lingering from pandemic furloughs and layoffs play a major part in the industry’s labor shortage crisis. Cameron Sperance Two of the world’s largest hotel companies laid off tens of thousands of employees apiece during the pandemic, and the recovery won’t provide a rapid re-staffing solution. Marriott dropped from roughly 174,000...
Skift Take The sale to VICI Residences is the latest example of MGM Resorts following the hotel industry’s “asset-light” organization design and going back from real estate ownership. A few of the business’s greatest landmark resorts, like the Bellagio, have already been sold off to Blackstone. Cameron Sperance Casino operator MGM Resorts said on Wednesday it had actually...
Skift Take More indications of Omicron subsiding. Thai authorities are mulling whether to drop quarantine requirements yet again for vaccinated travelers going into the nation. Tom Lowry Thailand is thinking about bringing back a quarantine waiver for vaccinated visitors, its health minister stated on Monday, as part of a proposed alleviating of some COVID-19 procedures later on this week...
Skift Take This was the year of the travel IPO with 10 market debuts. But a minimum of 10 more travel business are most likely to go public in 2022. Investors, regardless of disappointing Covid obstacles, continue to bet on the long-lasting strength of the travel industry. Sean O’Neill This year set a record for travel business going public or revealing they will go public, setting up 2022...
Overtourism has been blamed for, among other things, accelerating environmental degradation, driving up rents for local residents, and overwhelming infrastructure. But there is a powerful group that is emerging to play a leading role in the fight against overtourism post-pandemic: travel advisors. As people are getting back on the road in large numbers, travel advisors have increasingly become...
Skift Take In the meantime, masks for everybody is the simplest, safest, and most effective method to fly large groups of individuals. A plan like this would need more lines and screenings or need passengers and airline company workers to trust one another– and trust remains in brief supply in the U.S. today. Jason Clampet A group of Senate Republicans prompted the Centers for Illness...
Skift Take We’re excited to be coming back with more hybrid occasions with this robust calendar of forums and tops in 2022. In addition to the return of our Megatrends and Europe Online forum, we will be launching two new events: a Lodging Summit in May, and a Middle East Global Online Forum in December. Rafat Ali As we look ahead with optimism to take a trip’s recovery in the coming...
Skift Take Whether it’s the political divide over requireds, or a just a convenience level with 90 percent of its staff members immunized now, Disney is drawing back on requireds at its showcase Orlando, Florida, park. Will it start to chill out at its other theme park, too? Tom Lowry Disney World near Orlando, Florida, run by Walt Disney Co, has actually put its COVID-19 vaccination...