Skift Take Today’s edition of Skift’s everyday podcast looks at Ethiopa’s tourism healing, Alaska Air’s revenues, and a hotel variety effort. Rashaad Jorden Good early morning from Skift. It’s Monday, January 30. Here’s what you need to learn about business of travel today. Listen Now Subscribe Apple Podcasts|Spotify|Overcast|Google Podcasts Episode Notes...
Skift Take Good news for local tourist in Wyoming and environments, as Yellowstone presses ahead with a partial resuming after extraordinary flooding. Environment modification can’t hold back this figured out location. Tom Lowry Yellowstone National Park will partly resume on Wednesday after record flooding and rockslides following a burst of heavy rains that led the park to be closed for...
Hilton President and CEO Christopher Nassetta spoke with Skift CEO Rafat Ali at Skift Global Forum 2021. The two discussed the theme “How We Live and Work Has Changed for Good, Will Travel?” You can watch a full video of their discussion as well as read a transcript of it, below. Rafat Ali: Thank you, Chris, for being here. Christopher Nassetta: Great to be with you. Before we get started, I did...
Skift Take Live on phase at Skift Forum Europe recently, industry leaders shared their top-level perspective on the future of work, and hospitality. One of them was more ahead of the curve than others. A little too far, in fact. Skift The increasing crossover between work and hospitality was a hot topic at Skift Forum Europe. It was, inevitably, going to turn up throughout the day’s closing...
Skift Take After buying Freebird and onboarding Hopper as its travel platform for credit card members, Capital One is developing a considerable travel portfolio with this latest acquisition. Matthew Parsons Corporate travel reserving and expense app Lola has shut down, with banking company Capital One getting the majority of its employees and software application, according to regional media. The...
From being a quicker option to the brief message service (SMS), the humble WhatsApp has actually now metamorphosed into what might be promoted as a wise marketing service, even as privacy issues continue to pester the Meta-owned app. A Skift Megatrend for 2016 had actually kept in mind that messaging platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and WeChat dominate much of how the contemporary...
Skift Take St. John’s, a stunning and dynamic seaside city surrounded by significant natural websites, is a center of innovation for Canada’s natural deposits and energy sector and is leading the way on minimizing the industry’s environmental footprint. Destination Canada This sponsored material was created in cooperation with a Skift partner. When Charlene Johnson requires a...
Skift Take Carriers have been increasing pilot pay and advantages as they work with thousands to satisfy the post-pandemic travel boom. But is there a widely-viewed template for these contracts? Amrita Ghosh American Airlines’ pilot union has actually cautioned that the ratification of the company’s new contract offer remains in “jeopardy” as United Airlines has actually...
Skift Take Almost two years given that the pandemic began, and a lot of rule modifications in between, the federal government has raised constraints. Matthew Parsons After 2 years of mostly non-essential travel advice, the UK government has actually come full circle to lift all Covid-related constraints. The elimination of the measures took effect 4 a.m. on Friday, and consists of the axing of...
Skift Take The travel healing is completely dependent on tourist confidence, vaccine schedule and relieving of travel restrictions. Will all this be enough to turn things around for Norwegian or will the pandemic and competition prove to be too much? Ruthy Muñoz Norwegian Air saw a dive in travelers in July due to the lifting of some travel constraints in Europe and more individuals being...