Announcing Skift’s 2023 Calendar of Events

Over 300 leading companies already plan to attend Skift Global Forum 2023 on September 26-28 in New York City. This includes companies like Marriott, Disney, Accor, Google, Netflix, Hilton, Amazon, Thayer Ventures, Highgate, and U.S. Travel just to name a few.

In its annual outlook for the travel industry, Skift Research has created 2023 global revenue forecasts for airlines, hotels, short-term rentals, cruise lines, and online travel agencies. Skift also built an estimate for international cross-border travel from 2023–2025. This outlook is meant as a companion piece to our recent State of Travel report that offers in-depth coverage of all travel segments.

Skift is gathering travel leaders from across the globe in Dubai this December to look at the larger context of travel in the Middle East and what lies ahead for this important region. We’re putting the latest trends and strategies for lodging, destinations, online travel, and consumers under a microscope with some of the best and brightest minds in the industry. 

The travel industry has experienced extraordinary growth over the past decade. This year alone, expenditures for the global travel industry are expected to reach nearly $6 trillion. As those of us in the industry know, it’s also highly complex and rapidly changing. No digital intelligence company has stayed closer to these ongoing shifts in traveler behavior and market dynamics than Skift.

Good morning from Skift. Somehow it’s already Friday, January 20. Here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.

Skift Research has been tracking the performance of the travel industry since the start of the pandemic, and we have analyzed all the peaks and troughs, highs and lows for three years now. The last months of 2022 saw little movement in the global Index score as continued growth in demand in some areas was counterbalanced by increased worries about the broader economy.

Good morning from Skift. It’s Thursday, December 22, and here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.

Last year, Skift debuted our first-ever Skift Future of Lodging Forum in New York City – focused on what Skift has called “The Great Merging” of how we live, work, and travel. 

Skift CEO Rafat Ali and Skift Research senior analysts Varsha Arora and Pranavi Agarwal went live on LinkedIn to discuss the key findings and implications from the latest U.S. Travel Tracker survey conducted in January 2023. Skift Research has been conducting bi-monthly U.S. travel surveys since January 2020 amongst 1,000 U.S. consumers, to examine travel behavior, demands and expectations.

Good morning from Skift. It’s Friday, February 17. Here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.

Join Skift editors and research analysts as we speak with hospitality gamechangers alongside an audience of 300+ leaders, investors, and strategists. You will not want to miss this travel industry event featuring insightful, editorially-driven discussions.

Skift Research’s latest report looks at hotel performance by chain scale in times of crisis and recession in the U.S., as well as the comparison of unit growth strategies of major hotel brands post the 2008/9 Great Financial Crisis versus their current pipelines.