Skift Take It’s an alarming caution from one of the sector’s most experienced founders and investors– but just don’t talk about patterns up until 2023, HomeAway’s Carl Shepherd made a point to include. Matthew Parsons, Skift The co-founder of HomeAway has likened the current spate of unique purpose acquisition companies– or SPACs– to the build-up seen...
Skift Take The minute the industry has actually been clamoring for appears to be here– rich countries agreeing to drive international standards for the restart of international travel. It’s not perfect, however it’s a long waited for start. Lebawit Lily Girma It took almost two years of a lethal international pandemic that also decimated the tourism and air travel sectors and...
Skift Take Except for the down year of 2020, the U.S. lodging sector has actually been performing robustly, with the short-term rental sector acquiring market share. Our company believe hotels will make a strong resurgence in 2022 relative to the short-term rental sector. Varsha Arora Skift Research estimates that the overall lodging sector in the U.S. produced $319.9 billion revenue in 2021...
Skift Take It has to do with time that the airline companies refund travelers considering that it was clear they were breaking European Union customer rules throughout the early days of the pandemic. Rashaad Jorden A group of European airlines settled on Thursday to refund guests whose flights were canceled throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and committed to offer much better details on...
Skift Take Hotels and other travel brand names did see excellent numbers as they headed into the holiday season, but we’re most likely to see signs of consumers tapping the breaks in the early part of 2022. Let’s hope that will be short-lived. Jason Clampet Premier Inn owner Whitbread said on Wednesday lodging at its UK hotels has stayed strong in current weeks, regardless of the...
Skift Take Significant hotel business do not wish to ruffle any financier plumes at a time when profitability is just returning and labor stays delicate. But it’s better to be truthful– and prepared– about what the next couple of months might appear like with brand-new pressures of the virus and release a new healing strategy. Cameron Sperance The presidents of some of the...
Skift Take At an invite-only session from Skift Global Forum 2022, Holly Aresty, deputy chief business officer at Rokt, and Wouter Geerts, director of research at Skift, led a roundtable discussion about how changing client expectations are reshaping ecommerce deals and redefining the idea of brand name commitment. Rokt Secret conversation highlights: Messaging that actually matters: When a...
Skift Take Despite its popular destinations, the Maldives is mainly off-limits to tourists with disabilities. But that will alter, thanks to Victoria Kruse, who’s leading a groundbreaking accessibility effort at Amilla Maldives Resort and Residences. Carley Thornell Hospitality veteran Victoria Kruse will never forget the moment an unique visitor had the ability to experience an environment...
Skift Take Lufthansa’s main message, “Diversity Wins,” communicated in such a light-hearted and celebratory tone, silently asserts the brand’s worth of acceptance, and its difference with some of Qatar’s inequitable stances. Samantha Shankman German flag carrier Lufthansa just recently launched an advertising campaign around the FIFA World Cup. As part of the effort...
Skift Take Although Covid-19 constraints have reduced up given that 2020, current undergraduate students are still ambivalent to pack up, move to a brand-new nation, and study abroad. Sonia Menken The experience of escaping a college school and traveling to a brand-new country to study together with a group of fresh classmates can be contributed to the long list of experiences that have actually...