Jose Marmolejos travel tips

Good morning from Skift. It’s Tuesday, January 9. Here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.

For this edition of the Skift Podcast, we turn to our recent Skift Global Forum East event in Dubai, UAE. Near the end of the first day of the event, Skift CEO Rafat Ali was joined by Hany Abdelkawi, Google’s Head of Travel Sales.

Today on the podcast we feature Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi in conversation with Skift Founder and CEO Rafat Ali onstage at Skift Global Forum in New York City last month. 

Good morning from Skift. It’s Tuesday, May 9. Here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.

Good morning from Skift. It’s Tuesday, May 23, and we’re back after a short holiday. Here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.

The short-term rental industry has seen a significant boom following the pandemic, largely due to the rise in remote work. However, industry executives gathered at Skift’s Short-Term Rental Summit to discuss the future of the sector and its sustainability.

Senior hospitality editor Sean O’Neill interviews travel tech reporter Justin Dawes about his experience on the floor of the Hospitality Industry Technology Expo and Conference, better known as HITEC. The conference bills itself as “the world’s largest hospitality technology show,” and Justin was there in Toronto last week covering it for Skift.

Skift Asia Editor Peden Doma Bhutia interviews Global Tourism Reporter Dawit Habtemariam about the series of articles he’s written recently for Skift.com that detail the plight of U.S. cities, how they are coping, and what they are doing to encourage both domestic and international tourists to return in the wake of the pandemic.

On Wednesday of last week, Skift broke the bombshell news that Expedia Group—the world’s leading Online Travel Agent—had decided to end its longstanding partnership with Hopper, a rival OTA that Expedia had nonetheless been providing hotel and vacation rental inventory for many years. What’s more, Expedia used their announcement to voice concerns about several practices employed by Hopper that they perceived to be detrimental to consumers.

As we look ahead to the landmark 10th Skift Global Forum happening this September in New York City, today we take a look back at a panel session from Skift Global Forum 2016 correctly billed as “Legends of Online Travel”.