Skift Take A major operational shakeup at BWH Hotel Group is unlikely under new CEO Larry Cuculic. The company’s recent performance numbers show why that is. Cameron Sperance Don’t expect anything radically different just because there’s a new CEO in charge of Best Western parent company BWH Hotel Group. Larry Cuculic succeeded longtime CEO David Kong earlier this month into the top job at the...
Skift Take Including Hilton as a customer is a major boost to Amazon’s health care business, which incorporates the significantly popular telehealth practice lots of patients depended on throughout the pandemic to see their physicians. Cameron Sperance Amazon.com Inc has reached an offer to offer virtual medical services to Hilton in the United States, landing a marquee customer for its...
Airport traffic and hotel efficiency are occasionally exceeding 2019 levels thanks to leisure traffic. City attractions like museums and parks are packed once again with visitors. Dining establishment hosts have actually gone back to belittling last-minute requests for Saturday night appointments. U.S. cities are well on their way back from pandemic lows, and that’s a problem for the hotel...
Skift Take In Skift’s top travel stories today, we covered the Expedia CEO’s take on Airbnb, the Hyatt-Apple Leisure deal, 2 online travel veterans launching a hotel distribution network, the unsettled fines of unruly leaflets, to name a few subjects. Dennis Schaal, Skift Throughout the week we are publishing initial stories night and day covering news and travel trends, including on...
My 36-year-old more youthful sis Adia enjoys going on getaway during the summer season with my mom, Nedina Jorden. There’s relatively absolutely nothing unusual about that, but they’re part of an underrepresented and typically unrecognized group: families taking a trip with autistic children. Although travelers with unique needs handled average 32 million trips each year prior to the...
Skift Take Royal Caribbean remains positive about 2022 demand– however it’s clear both the Delta version and lagging vaccinations in Caribbean ports of call will continue to stall the healing of big cruise. Lebawit Lily Girma Royal Caribbean Group on Wednesday flagged a modest hit to cruise reservations from the Delta variation of the coronavirus, and said the demand for next year was...
Skift Take How are airline companies preparing to attend to the needs of the changed traveler and interfered with running environment as the world emerges from the Covid-19 crisis? Expect to see strategies for individualized worth, more options, and higher airline company control, as airline companies move on their special journey back to profitability. Accelya Accelya’s Air Transformation...
Skift Take A proactive position throughout the pandemic has landed Houston with a bumper H2 2021 of in-person events, a suite of brand-new attractions, and high hopes for the future of meetings and conventions in the city. Houston First Corporation “Our message for a while now has been that Houston is open for service,” said Michael Heckman, acting president and CEO of Houston First...
Skift Take Greener aircrafts and additional trucks understandably are in demand, however it’s still tough to believe its forecast has dipped by simply 0.5 percent compared to prior to the crisis. Matthew Parsons Plane shaved its projection for plane need by 0.5 percent compared to pre-pandemic projections on Saturday, balanced out by a brighter outlook for trucks as the world’s...
Skift Take As goes Amadeus, so goes the travel market. The travel tech company stated its June incomes were the very best because the pandemic began. That was another positive signal for the sector as a whole. Sean O’Neill, Skift Amadeus reported another quarterly loss as higher-priced worldwide air traffic hasn’t recuperated as quickly as domestic air traffic in the pandemic rebound...