Skift Take It’s excellent to be mindful, however Thailand might pay the price of bewaring to a fault. Having already lost out on the first-mover advantage, will the hold-up in resuming offer a significant blow to the already-fragile economy of Southeast Asia’s most significant tourism hub? Peden Doma Bhutia An emotional minute unfolded at Malaysia’s Johor Bahru as many waited...
Skift Take The time for soft pedaling is over at United Airlines. Not just was it the very first major U.S. provider to mandate jabs for all workers, United is now going an action even more and running the risk of possible claims by putting employees with religious exemptions on leave– without a paycheck. Tom Lowry United Airlines staff members who receive religious exemptions from the...
Skift Take There’s a danger in the surging typical daily rates as travel takes off: Luxury hotels don’t have the staff or the ability to measure up to inflated rates. This provides a long-lasting threat to thoroughly cultivated brand names. Colin Nagy, Skift In the U.S., vengeance travel is genuine. Post the 2nd jab, people are naturally running to their computers, war-dialing the...
Skift Take CEO Sebastien Bazin has definitely developed Accor’s luxury and way of life lineup, however will that suffice to assist him lastly get into the U.S. market? Matthew Parsons Accor’s CEO is steering the brand towards more high-end and lifestyle homes. Fortunately, hotel owners are more than obliging. “I have actually been at the helm of this company for the previous 8...
Travel startup Holidu said on Wednesday it had closed a Series D financing round of $45 million. The Munich-based business, which focuses on the vacation rental sector, has now raised more than $120 million since its founding in 2014. 83North led the round, with Prime Ventures, EQT ventures, Coparion, Senovo, and other investors also participating. Holidu got its start with its flagship product...
Portugal’s early effective vaccination rollout, permitting it to resume earlier than its neighbors, has actually turned the location into a preferred in Europe. But the country’s tourism rise has coincided with the airline’s constant recovery course– in the middle of a government-funded restructuring and continuous pandemic unpredictabilities. “Our capability for...
What began as a concept in 2015 for its creator, who was tired of running through airports without any time to get a meal or coffee, is now a growing in-airport mobile app food and retail delivery business. At Your Gate offers a practical and touch-free method to ordering food, drinks, adult drinks, and merchandise from airport merchants through its app, with deliveries straight to departure...
Skift Take A brazen effort to track the spread of the Omicron variation to the U.S., but the truth is certainly that it’s currently in the states. Go into personal privacy advocates. Tom Lowry U.S. officials purchased airline companies to reveal passenger names and other info about those who have just recently been in eight southern African countries and will provide it to local and state...
Skift Take Locations continue to press out some of the best tourism marketing campaigns we’ve seen since the huge pandemic time out. Lebawit Lily Girma It’s tough to picture a better parody of Mark Zuckerberg’s current Metaverse launch and effort to rebrand the company’s tarnished image since late. However Go to Iceland’s new genius campaign, Icelandverse, hits the...
The pandemic-related income crisis has actually prompted lots of people in the travel industry to shock their old ideas and attempt brand-new approaches in all aspects of their operations. Skift’s Style the Future event on December 9 highlighted many of the innovators and amazing ideas percolating in the sector today. Below are some lessons we drew from the occasion. Travel’s Digital...