The global Muslim travel market is becoming an ever more attractive sector, especially for travel tech players. Here’s why.
By 2020, the global Muslim travel market is expected to be worth $220 billion, with the number of travelers rising to 158 million ...
From TripActions’ quarter billion dollar investment round to Emerging Travel Group’s solid $10 million round, there’s lots going on in travel startup funding this week.
Travel startups announced more than $360 million in funding in the last couple weeks. Here's this latest in tech funding. Since our last roundup, Skift
Marriott International is obviously pleased with the initial response to its homesharing product.
In the same week that Airbnb launched its own dedicated luxury homesharing product, it was interesting to hear from a rival about its own adventures in
Brand USA could go under if Congress doesn’t act to secure its funding.
During a time when U.S. inbound travel is already losing its international market share, Brand USA, the country's public-private tourism marketing arm, is During a time when U.S. inbound travel is already losing its international market share, Brand USA, the country's public-private tourism marketin...
Australia must streamline visa processing, especially if it wants to attract Indians to the Cricket World Cup 2020.
An Australia tourism watchdog says the country’s visa processing bottlenecks have forced India’s travel agents to stop recommending the destination Australia faces visa crunch in drawing more Indian travelers.
It’s a smart move considering the likelihood of customer overlap.
As of last month, elite World of Hyatt and American Airlines AAdvantage members can earn more points and miles with a new joint loyalty collaboration from American Airlines and Hyatt.
In the age of overtourism, a top tourist attraction admitting they have a carrying capacity is a quietly radical act.
In 2017, a record-breaking 2.26 million people visited the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The musueum decided that something had to change.
It doesn’t seem like a good idea to build a business, let alone make your home, in a surveillance experiment controlled by Alphabet.
The movement toward smart cities has progressed slowly in recent years due to the complexity of not just building a completely new form of digital
Given the constant drip of bad news coming out of fastjet since it launched in 2012, it’s amazing the airline is still flying.
Money-losing African Airline Fastjet is on the hunt for a new CEO after incumbent Nico Bezuidenhout quit to rejoin his old company. The departure comes
Small details can have a big impact on the social and environmental effects of a business event.
Throngs of people in massive rooms and overflowing trash cans are staples of the corporate conference, but they take their toll on both the environment
With BCD’s most recent investment, the company is in a good position to start planning future acquisitions in the Asia-Pacific region.
The key players in the travel management world only continue to get bigger, often relying on acquisitions of mid-size companies to expand deeper into
Luxury travelers often deconstruct what goes into great hospitality, but it’s also necessary to ask what is required of guests to hold up their end of the bargain.
This column spends a lot of time decoding the dark magic that goes into creating memorable hospitality experiences. Most of the time, the job is very
Australia’s indigenous culture is now being strongly promoted through the efforts of Tourism Australia, state tourism promoters, and local operators.
Visitor interest in Australia’s aboriginal culture is rising steadily and so are the ways for travel advisors to offer clients opportunities to explore Visitor interest in Australia’s aboriginal culture is rising steadily and so are the ways for travel advisors to offer clients opportunities to ...
Apps are a great way to provide event attendees with information, but they can easily get overwhelming.
The event planning industry is slowly evolving to catch up to new digital trends and social norms. The recent PCMA EduCon conference in Los Angeles, Mobile applications created specifically for certain events or convention centers have the potential to be a double-edged sword.
Insiders sometimes privately ask if Ben Smith will be a short-timer at Air France-KLM.
After Ben Smith became CEO of Air France-KLM last year, he looked at Air France's Africa network, one of the company's jewels. France no longer rules much
Georgia’s tourism sector has been a striking success story over the last decade.
A ban on Russian flights to Georgia will certainly harm the country's tourism sector in the short term—but also presents an opportunity.
Four key tactics for implementing a successful payment strategy.
The travel industry has its own set of unique challenges when it comes to getting cross-border payments right.
This major reversal coincides with a leadership change atop Booking and represents a victory for hotels and their controversial fees.
Booking Holdings, which had announced it would begin charging hotels in the United States commission on their resort fees, has delayed implementing the Booking Holdings, which had announced it would begin charging hotels in the United States commission on their resort fees, has delayed implementing....
Saudi Arabia is expanding its infrastructure to support 15 million Umrah visitors a year by 2020, and 30 million by 2030.
Major Asian players WebBeds and Agoda are making swift moves to disrupt Umrah pilgrimage travel bookings as Saudi Arabia unveils a vision to support WebBeds, Agoda make a beeline for Saudi Arabia
As successful as Taco Bell has been recently, it does not have the expertise to run a hotel over the long haul on its own.
Here’s some interesting news: Taco Bell strongly considers itself a hospitality company. The Irvine, Calif.-based restaurant chain, which began taking Here’s some interesting news: Taco Bell strongly considers itself a hospitality company.
The travel industry is obsessed with Big Data and artificial intelligence.
It's not just the largest and richest companies in travel that are on the personalization path these days, and even the smaller players are currently Most speakers at Skift Tech Forum are obsessed with how to use Big Data in the form of machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve their p...
After Indonesia, Vietnam turns out to be the next big playground in Southeast Asia for OYO.
Oyo Hotels & Homes will be investing $50 million to expand in Vietnam, where it says it has opened 90 hotels with 1,500 rooms in the past three Oyo to invest $50 million on Vietnam expansion.
Offering programs beyond the popular destinations is a noble goal, but are the tour operators listening?
Tourism in Thailand is going through a transitional period in which increased demand is compelling travel companies to offer vacationers many more The Tourism Authority of Thailand targeted 55 emerging destinations which saw a 5 percent increase by foreign tourists in 2018 over 2017.
A new partnership launched by France’s biggest hotel chain and biggest airline will allow loyalty members to benefit from spending money anywhere within the network.
Air France-KLM and Accor customers need now only to link accounts to start earning points off of airline and hotel spend.
In the era of “flying shame,” KLM Royal Dutch Airlines’ latest brand messaging might just be ahead of the curve.
KLM is urging people to take trains or do video calls where possible. This might just be marketing but it may also reflect the folly in aviation’s growth targets.
Event attendees need places to work, decompress, and put their food down. As obvious as it sounds, these spaces can be hard to find at conferences due to poor venue design.
Events are often huge displays of over-the-top hospitality, offering all-you-can-eat meals and tons of free products for guests to take home.
The global Muslim travel market is becoming an ever more attractive sector, especially for travel tech players. Here’s why.
By 2020, the global Muslim travel market is expected to be worth $220 billion, with the number of travelers rising to 158 million ...
We sat down with an Accor executive to talk about design’s principle role in hospitality, and how the industry should evolve to be prepared for future shifts.
There has been a fair amount of industry discussion about how the leading travel and hospitality brands are thinking about design today.
From TripActions’ quarter billion dollar investment round to Emerging Travel Group’s solid $10 million round, there’s lots going on in travel startup funding this week.
Travel startups announced more than $360 million in funding in the last couple weeks. Here's this latest in tech funding. Since our last roundup, Skift
Most carriers try their best to keep aircraft looking sharp. They view an airplane’s livery as free advertising.
Before Corey Culbertson boards a Southwest Airlines airplane, he stops at the boarding door to look at the blue, red, and orange heart logo to his right,
The Western media jumped on a 57 percent drop in arrivals to Sri Lanka in June, but that’s only half the story.
The Western media, from The New York Times to The Washington Post to The Seattle Times and the Toronto City News, picked up an Associated Press article Sri Lanka is on the mend
In this deep dive, women on the commercial side of aviation share how it feels to hit the glass ceiling in 2019, and occasionally break through.
Of all the sectors in travel, aviation has one of the most visible gender gaps. The image of a male pilot and a female flight attendant has long ...
In the age of overtourism, a top tourist attraction admitting they have a carrying capacity is a quietly radical act.
In 2017, a record-breaking 2.26 million people visited the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The musueum decided that something had to change.
U.S. attractions could do a much better job of serving travelers of color. It’s not just a matter of marketing and content curation but hiring practices as well.
Attractions in the U.S. have significant room for improvement when it comes to serving and satisfying people of color, according to a new study ...
Airlines have innovated a lot since Skift Airline Weekly’s launch in June 2004, but there’s one innovation that we think radically changed the industry.
When Skift Airline Weekly started publishing in 2004, it was a vastly different world. Think of it—YouTube launched that year in a world without
Navigating the world of government travel is so complex that it’s hard for outside companies to handle it.
Chris Babb, founder of Washington, D.C.-based The Group Tour Company, remembers getting a letter from the federal government inviting him to bid on a Chris Babb, founder of The Group Tour Company, remembers getting a letter from the federal government, inviting him to bid on a major travel contract.
Airlines have a love-hate relationship with plastics, especially when it comes to food and beverage. Plastics pose a serious environmental threat, but at the same time they’re lightweight and thereby help reduce carbon emissions.
Plastics play a huge role on airplanes, especially in catering, but it wasn’t always this way. Going back to the so-called golden age of air travel ...
If you live in the West and parts of Asia and Africa, you take the Google Maps app everywhere you go.
If you live in the West and parts of Asia and Africa, you take the Google Maps app everywhere you go, stuffed in a pocket or clutched in a hand. And its Whether Google Maps becomes the next super app may depend on whether users really want a do-it-everything app, and the mood of regulators.
Can Rosewood continue to maintain its uniqueness, even as it goes after what all the other hotel brands are going after, too?
It’s only been eight years since the former New World Hospitality group — a division of the larger Hong Kong-based conglomerate Chow Tai Fook Enterprises Rosewood Hotel Group CEO Sonia Cheng has made it her singular goal to take the brand global, as well as retain its luxury heritage.
IHG Hotels & Resorts is such a sprawling company, it’s hard to get a handle on it. Here we break it down for you.
InterContinental Hotels Group, based in Denham, England, is one of the largest hotel groups in the world by number of rooms, along with competitors like Marriott and Accor.
Google put all the pieces together by including flights, hotels, packages, and trip-planning tools on a dedicated website and in Google Search and Google Maps.
If you've been waiting for the proverbial next shoe to drop when it comes to Google Travel putting all the pieces together, it just did. Google on Tuesday
For our 2019 company retreat, Skift decided to go farther afield, in a literal sense — we went glamping.
For our 2019 company retreat, Skift decided to go farther afield, in a literal sense. Past retreats have typically involved hotel…
How does a brand become a lifestyle, and vice versa?
New York City's massive $20-billion real estate development Hudson Yards officially opened on March 15, but it'll be at least another month until it New York's $20 billion Hudson Yards officially opened on March 15, but it'll be at least another month until it welcomes the first-ever Equinox Hotel.
The hotel industry is just waking up to the problem of plastic waste, but this is a two-way street. Hotels rely on this convenient, affordable material just as much as travelers do.
Plastics are omnipresent in hotels: cups, straws, coffee lids, shampoo bottles, amenities, minibars, breakfast buffets, supplier deliveries, and more.
Every non-hotel brand thinks it's a hospitality company.
Here’s some interesting news: Taco Bell strongly considers itself a hospitality company. The Irvine, Calif.-based restaurant chain, which began taking Here’s some interesting news: Taco Bell strongly considers itself a hospitality company.
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Artificial intelligence has massive potential to disrupt the travel industry — but not necessarily in the ways you might expect.
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Hotels throw away thousands of unused soap bars and hygiene products daily. Now, they're thinking of new ways to recycle these items for a good cause.
How creativity and innovative thinking can transform a blank space into a multi-sensory playground.
How creativity and innovative thinking can transform a blank space into a multi-sensory playground.
Our @deannating on stage with @marriottintl CEO: How many brands can you add? #hotels #branding #skiftforum
Watch our new video on tours and experiences: the next great untapped market in online travel. Then read the deep dive here: http://bit.ly/2NlaZp9
The latest version of President Trump’s travel ban was recently upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, to the disappointment of many in the travel industry. Brands will continue feeling pressured to take a political stand to save their bottom lines.
Skift asked airline industry leaders where the opportunities and challenges are for emerging startups. Are you a startup ready to shape the future of aviation? Apply to the Air Pitch Startup Competition here: http://skift.com/air-pitch/
Skift asked airline industry leaders where the opportunities and challenges are for emerging startups. Are you a startup ready to shape the future of aviation? Apply to the Air Pitch Startup Competition here: http://skift.com/air-pitch/
Skift asked airline industry leaders where the opportunities and challenges are for emerging startups. Are you a startup ready to shape the future of aviation? Apply to the Air Pitch Startup Competition here: http://skift.com/air-pitch/
Skift asked airline industry leaders where the opportunities and challenges are for emerging startups. Are you a startup ready to shape the future of aviation? Apply to the Air Pitch Startup Competition here: http://skift.com/air-pitch/
Skift asked airline industry leaders where the opportunities are for emerging startups. Are you a startup ready to shape the future of aviation? Apply to the Air Pitch Startup Competition here: http://skift.com/air-pitch/
Skift asked industry leaders about the biggest challenges facing airlines and where the opportunities are for emerging startups. Are you a startup ready to shape the future of the airline industry? Apply to the Air Pitch Startup Competition here: http://skift.com/air-pitch/
Skift asked industry leaders about the biggest challenges facing airlines and where the opportunities are for emerging startups. Are you a startup ready to shape the future of the airline industry? Apply to the Air Pitch Startup Competition here: http://skift.com/air-pitch/
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Today meeting planners are reckoning with the rising expectations of attendees who “want it all,” whether that’s networking, education or entertainment.
How a private airplane hangar was transformed into a multi-sensory event space.
How meeting planners design, scale, and customize space to create environments that inspire conference attendees.
How this 104-year old company values its rich history and the craftsmanship behind their jackets—and defies conventional manufacturing rules. The Unbound Collection by Hyatt and SkiftX present: The Freedom to be Extraordinary Interview Series
Through her design studio, Haptic Lab, founder Emily Fischer seeks to bring about transparency, simplicity, sustainability and consciousness in the way products are created and designed. The Unbound Collection by Hyatt presents: The Freedom to be Extraordinary Interview Series
Skift Video: See how cognitive technology is reshaping the traveler experience
CEO Krystle Mobayeni helps restaurants engage with their customers online, serving as a real partner and embodying the idea of hospitality every step of the way. The Unbound Collection by Hyatt and SkiftX present: The Freedom to be Extraordinary Interview Series
The true value of Tucson as a meetings and events destination is the city's sublime desert vibe.
How meeting planners are tapping into one of the most creative culinary cities in the U.S.
Tucson is emerging as one of the most interesting cities in the U.S. for meetings and event planners.
How are smart conference planners rethinking event design? According to SkiftX editor Greg Oates, it's all about "Festivalzation." Watch and learn as we go behind the scenes at Bellagio Las Vegas and ARIA Resort & Casino as they construct a major corporate event.
A one-minute teaser of our new documentary about how Barcelona is grappling with overtourism.
Bruno Chauvat, CEO & Co-Founder of Travelsify and Juan Pablo Lafosse, CEO of Almundo.com spoke with SkiftX Editor Greg Oates at Skift Forum Europe 2017 about the the two sides of personalization: consumer and product.
The rise of the On-Demand Economy, where goods and services are only a click away, has fundamentally changed the expectations of the modern consumer: we’re now used to getting whatever we want whenever we want it and without friction. Sponsored by Mastercard. Read more: https://skift.com/2017/05/19/skift-video-how-the-on-demand-economy-is-reshaping-traveler-expectations/
How are smart conference planners rethinking event design? According to SkiftX editor Greg Oates, it's all about "Festivalzation." Watch and learn as we go behind the scenes at Bellagio Las Vegas and ARIA Resort & Casino as they construct a major corporate event.
Join Skift LIVE in NYC as we decipher the megatrends that will define and shape the global travel industry in 2017. #SkiftTrends
Obvious.ly founder and CEO Mae Karwowski knows a thing or two about creating a dynamic social experience for brands. The entrepreneur is now in the process of mastering how to successfully run and scale a business on her terms, while continuing to fuel her passion for social media. Presented by SkiftX and The Unbound Collection by Hyatt.
For most people, change is scary, but Jen Guarino, the Vice President of Manufacturing at Shinola, embraces it. Guarino is on a mission to change how people view manufacturing in America and more importantly, the people who are at the heart of it. Presented by SkiftX and The Unbound Collection by Hyatt.
Nomadness Travel Tribe has been leading the black urban travel movement since its inception five years ago. While many have followed in its path, none have been able to replicate the impact its founder, Evita Robinson, has had within the travel industry. Presented by SkiftX and The Unbound Collection by Hyatt.
Nomadness Travel Tribe has been leading the black urban travel movement since its inception five years ago. While many have followed in its path, none have been able to replicate the impact its founder, Evita Robinson, has had within the travel industry. Presented by SkiftX and The Unbound Collection by Hyatt.
For most people, change is scary, but Jen Guarino, the Vice President of Manufacturing at Shinola, embraces it. Guarino is on a mission to change how people view manufacturing in America and more importantly, the people who are at the heart of it. Presented by SkiftX and The Unbound Collection by Hyatt.
Obvious.ly founder and CEO Mae Karwowski knows a thing or two about creating a dynamic social experience for brands. The entrepreneur is now in the process of mastering how to successfully run and scale a business on her terms, while continuing to fuel her passion for social media. Presented by SkiftX and The Unbound Collection by Hyatt.
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