Skift Take Out with the old. In with the new. The Mirage is the aging grand dame in the MGM Resorts Las Vegas portfolio compared to newer prize offers like handling the Cosmopolitan. Cameron Sperance Even MGM Resorts strikes a limitation on just how much of Sin City it can take. The company, which operates about 40,000 hotel spaces throughout 13 resorts in Las Vegas, prepares to offer operations...
As the war for talent heats up, companies having a hard time to hire could do well to consider taking advantage of co-living communities. That’s according to Mark Biery, who heads up Selina’s Co-Live remote work program. More than 3,000 individuals have invested at least one month in this program because August 2020, paying from $450 a month, while it currently has 450 members on site...
TUI Group has been staffing up on technologists as it automates crucial processes, such as dealing with airport transfers and customer care. It’s all part of a wider digitization trend by Europe’s biggest holiday bundle operator. The travel group, headquartered in Hannover, has about 600 software application designers, up from about 100 seven years earlier, stated TUI Group’s...
Skift Take It’s captivating that Jane Sun of Trip.com believes that China’s remote and hybrid working plans are helping domestic leisure travel to recuperate. That echoes forecasts from Airbnb’s CEO Brian Chesky and others about how hybrid working might boost travel for some time to come. Sean O’Neill China’s domestic leisure travel demand will probably recover in...
Skift Take Behind the investor cravings as American Express Global Organization Travel prepares to go public. Matthew Parsons A number of travel and hospitality business are poised to make their stock exchange debuts later this year, with one in specific that might stump a great deal of individuals as it runs in the corporate travel sector– a sector that’s been devastated by the...
Skift Take Flight Centre Travel Group is a worldwide travel bureau so it ought to be able to handle Air New Zealand and Qantas navigating to slashing travel representative commissions two decades after Delta Air Lines began the pattern in the U.S. It will not be without some pain, however. Dennis Schaal 20 years after U.S. airlines got rid of base commissions for travel agencies...
Skift Take Google didn’t acquiesce airline company pressure on this one, nor is it trying to greenwash. Rather, Google is trying to get the data right on the non-CO2 environment effect of flights. Dennis Schaal If you are browsing Google Flights to pick a New York to London roundtrip in mid-September, and you want to schedule the flight with the lowest nasty impact to environment...
A wave of high-profile flight cancellations has put a spotlight on employee scarcities at U.S. airlines, triggering warnings of new delays over the holiday period as airlines scramble for staff. It is a significant shift for an industry that was coming to grips with surplus labor as coronavirus hammered air travel just a year ago, and is the most recent proof of an expanding labor crunch. As...
Skift Take Simply last week Delta Air Lines CEO asked the CDC to cut quarantine times, stating the “Omicron surge may worsen scarcities and create considerable disturbances.” That has actually definitely proven to be true in the previous four days, and now U.S. health officials appear to get the message by cutting isolation time for the asymptomatic in half. Tom Lowry U.S. health...
Skift Take Remote work is here to stay. Which’s a good idea for the travel industry as it will produce a big market of long-term travelers that live and work anywhere. These digital wanderers have the prospective to be a little and mighty traveler type that are well worth understanding. Seth Borko, Skift In our newest report, Skift Research examines the prospective market for digital...