Skift Take Excellent early morning from Skift. It’s Tuesday, March 1, in New York City City. Here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today. Rashaad Jorden Today’s edition of Skift’s daily podcast takes a look at the types of cruise ships travelers are most interested in post-pandemic, the scheduling website focused on real estate Ukrainian refugees, and a...
Skift Take A great deal of destinations have actually stated they were rethinking tourism advancement throughout their respective Covid lockdowns. We’re still waiting to see a few of those more recent, much better policies emerge. Jason Clampet Seychelles stated on Wednesday it is looking to diversify its economy beyond its mainstay of tourist into locations such as fisheries after visitor...
Skift Take These days, pilot needs for automated inflation compensation would be a really nice perk undoubtedly. Dennis Schaal Pilots at Lufthansa have actually declined a wage deal by Germany’s flagship carrier and could go on strike anytime, union VC stated on Thursday, as a dispute over pay continues. They had actually voted in favour of industrial action last month, threatening further...
Online Travel Today It’s no secret that venture capitalist and personal equity evaluations of travel start-ups can be greatly pumped up, although Covid and lockdowns add to volatile market conditions. Skift analyzed a crop of eight recently public short-term leasing, travel tech, and rideshare companies that went public in 2021. (See the chart below.) Although many handled to pad their...
Skift Take Carnival’s North America market continues to be a star performer, and Europe is doing extremely well. Still, that won’t suffice to return Carnival to complete health post-pandemic. It requires to speed up development in Asia and Australia. Dawit Habtemariam Carnival scheduling volumes continue to surpass their 2019 levels in The United States and Canada, however they have...
Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky spoke with Skift CEO Rafat Ali at Skift Global Forum 2021. The two discussed the theme “The Future of Human Mobility and the Long Term Affects on Travel.” You can watch a full video of their discussion as well as read a transcript of it, below. Rafat Ali: Thank you, Brian, for being here. Brian Chesky: Thank you. Ali: I hear this as your first in person...
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Skift Take Hotels in Europe were only just getting the wind back in their sails, and now it appears like the recovery momentum might rapidly stall over governmental responses to the Omicron version. Cameron Sperance If it develops into another winter of lockdowns and take a trip restrictions throughout Europe, then this would zap the efficiency of the region’s unstable hotel industry...
Skift Take Move over Macau and Singapore. Las Vegas Sands is banking on Long Island, unlike other city-centric designers spending millions to win a gambling establishment license in New York. All these brand-new propositions are concentrating on corporate meeting spaces and tourism increases to the economy to turn the odds in their favor. Sherry Sun Las Vegas Sands is pursuing a multi-billion...
Skift Take The travel agency signs up with Hertz, Worldstrides and numerous airline companies in taking this specific route to weather the monetary storm triggered by the pandemic. Matthew Parsons Corporate travel bureau CWT stated it is preparing a pre-packaged Chapter 11 filing in the U.S. to finish a complicated $1.5 billion refinancing offer. In general, it has proposed a restructuring...