Skift Take Tripadvisor CEO Steve Kaufer told Skift that Tripadvisor Plus is “a super-high top priority for the company.” The program may find enthusiasts at the residential or commercial property level, but so far the biggest hotel chains do not seem jumping on board. Dennis Schaal, Skift Online Travel This Week After a number of months in beta, Tripadvisor’s new subscription...
Skift Take It is difficult to be optimistic about fall hotel performance for business like Marriott and Hilton– unless the lack of business travel is somehow offset by higher-than-expected leisure travel. Cameron Sperance The Delta version’s influence on hotel reservations is most likely short-lived, declares the CEO of the world’s biggest hotel business. After major hotel CEOs...
Skift Take Some lawmakers state they want to prevent a “terrible winter season rise” of coronavirus, however it’s skeptical there’ll suffice support that reverses Americans’ flexibility to fly. Matthew Parsons Three lots Democratic legislators on Friday prompted President Joe Biden to require domestic airline company travelers to be vaccinated versus Covid-19 or...
Skift Take Many Americans, long fed up with travel limitations, will likely disregard the CDC’s caution– which would be a big relief to Canadian businesses that still have not recouped the billions of dollars lost due to the U.S.-Canada border being closed for much of the pandemic. Rashaad Jorden The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday advised versus travel...
Hopper CEO and co-founder Frederic Lalonde spoke with Skift Executive Editor Dennis Schaal at Skift Global Forum 2021. The two discussed the theme “The Future of SuperApps and Mobile.” You can watch a full video of their discussion as well as read a transcript of it, below. Dennis Schaal: Fred, thank you for being here. Really appreciate it. Please put some questions for Fred in the app. I’ll be...
Skift Take Both Airbnb and Expedia.com are leaning into U.S. television advertising in their greatest projects in years. Many millennials may not see standard television these days, however the medium is still an important part of brands’ advertising mix. Dennis Schaal, Skift Having actually promised to minimize its reliance on Google Search marketing, Airbnb has actually been the largest...
Skift Take Service exceeds geopolitical stress: Chinese business like Atour can generate more cash to expand back house by noting on the U.S. stock exchange rather than in China. Cameron Sperance Shanghai-based hotel business Atour may be working towards a massive debut on the New York Stock Exchange, but that doesn’t signal immediate prepare for American growth. Atour, which owns brand...
Skift Take This is a much-needed optics win for Hyatt, which had not seen profitability during the pandemic like the majority of its competitors. Cameron Sperance Hyatt is finally back in the black. The Chicago-based hotel business reported Thursday a $120 million 3rd quarter earnings, the company’s very first profitable quarter of the pandemic and a considerable gain from the $161 million...
Skift Take SiteMinder lessened the pandemic’s hit to income by selling brand-new tools to help hotels with payments and digital marketing. Not surprising that Fidelity International wanted to invest ahead of the start-up’s likely going public in 2022. Sean O’Neill, Skift Global monetary titans have taken an interest in supporting the next travel technology company likely to go...
Skift Take Optimism about the travel recovery in the U.S. struck a peak this summertime. Hotels with a heavy American existence have gained from the resulting occupancy boost as well as wish for a long-lasting bump in conversions. Perhaps it needs to be not a surprise that significant U.S. hotel franchisors lead our health score list. Seth Borko, Skift Research Study Hilton held onto its top area...