Skift Take The upcoming “turning point” spring break will expose whether Europeans have got their appetite for travel back or not. Matthew Parsons Spain expects tourist to recover in the spring after a slowdown brought on by the Omicron variation of Covid-19 and for overall visitor numbers this year to be more than two-thirds of record 2019 levels, a senior government official said...
Dallas Fort Worth International Airport is wishing to end up being an international design for a modern-day green airport. Through continuous search to implement ecologically sustainable steps and inching closer to a net-zero carbon footprint goal by 2030, the airport looks to understand $45 million in savings and expense avoidance over 15 years, stated Robert Horton, the airport’s vice...
Skift Take Given Choice’s substantial demand base of leisure travelers, important workers, and roadway warriors, it isn’t unexpected that it will be the first major hotel company to eclipse 2019 efficiency levels. But it is definitely a bragging point. Cameron Sperance While other hotel business are less certain of their healing timelines, Choice Hotels leaders are currently talking...
Skift Take Unpredictability prevails as travel’s recovery speeds up in some nations, while others see previous gains dissipating. In general, the worldwide recovery stalled at 65 percent of pre-pandemic levels, according to the latest findings from the Skift Recovery Index. Wouter Geerts, Skift Research Study July saw a stalling of the global healing, after travel’s performance was...
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...