Airbnb vs. Vrbo: Comparing the Largest Short-Term Rental Platforms

The chief digital officer of Delta Air Lines sees the latest advancements of AI as a way to connect the historically fragmented customer experience. 

Good morning from Skift. It’s Thursday, September 21. Here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.

Blueground is seeing its apartments being rented out as safe havens from political upheavals.

We used to talk in pre-pandemic years about how travel is moving East, with the epicentre and greatest volumes of travel no longer happening in North America or Europe, but in Asia. The pandemic has shifted that momentum back somewhat, and the Middle East has really taken on the role of connecting parts of the world.

Airbnb thinks it’s unfair that the European Commission is proposing increased data-sharing requirements on short-term rental providers across the zone, but Google seemingly is escaping the clampdown.

Software developer Victor Varlamov logs in every morning to work on a sunny Spanish island off the coast of Africa after the prospect of steep heating bills and a winter made harsher by the Ukraine war drove him to leave his adoptive home in Poland.

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Building on initiatives that had mixed results in the past, Airbnb is debuting an Airbnb-Friendly Apartments program to enable long-term renters in multifamily buildings where landlords permit it to list their rooms or apartments on Airbnb.

Good morning from Skift. It’s Friday, December 30, and here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.

Hyatt has been active in recent months devising creative ways to market its brands while competing against home rental platforms at the same time. So what’s the main message Hyatt has been conveying to prospective guests?

The Skift Travel Health Index is up to 89 points in January 2023, falling only short 11 percentage points from January 2019 travel performance levels. The January score is the highest achieved since the onset of the pandemic. With growing travel demand, we expect 2023 to be a powerful year for the travel sector.

Skift Research’s latest report looks at how online travel booking habits changed during the pandemic and how these behaviors will continue to evolve. Since February 2020, Skift has been regularly surveying 1,000-plus Americans about their travel behaviors first on a monthly, and then a bi-monthly basis. The topline results of these surveys are published as our U.S. Travel Tracker. However, we ask more granular travel questions that have not been published previously.