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Today, we are excited to announce the 2023 shortlist for the Skift IDEA Awards.
Now in its fifth year, Skift IDEA Awards has become the travel industry’s most coveted achievement for excellence in design, creativity and innovation.
Designed to recognize the impactful and inspiring projects from brands, agencies, and tech companies that solve traveler challenges, inspire change, and define the future of travel, Skift IDEA Award winners are a beacon for where the industry is heading.
Hundreds of entries were submitted from around the globe, which are now set to be reviewed and scored by our independent panel of judges, consisting of a selection of the industry’s most respected leaders and experts.
The projects submitted for consideration this year have once again re-emphasized the fact that the future of travel is innovative, imaginative and more purpose-driven than ever before.
This year’s Skift IDEA Awards categories were split across four criteria groups:
Take a look at the full shortlist below:
Congratulations to all of the shortlisted finalists! Keep an eye out for the final results of the Skift IDEA Awards in August.
Good morning from Skift. It’s Wednesday, September 13. Here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.
Anyone who knows me and my dining out habits knows that once I discover a restaurant I love, I’m hooked and go again and again- that could mean twice a week or more sometimes or weekly straight for a year when I’m in town.
Benjamin Parent has worked at Tesla, on ships, and as a part-time tennis coach.
You could say that Nia Vardalos—the actor, writer, executive producer, and director who introduced the masses to Greek and Greek-American culture via her My Big Fat Greek Wedding films—is most at home in the country of Greece itself. In fact, when she appeared on Zoom for her chat with Condé Nast Traveler, she called in from the rocky island of Hydra. “I realize that my bikini is literally drying on the windowsill,” she laughed about the view of her background.
“It’s something that’s always been within me,” smiles Evalyn Sintoya Mayetu, gazing at a herd of buffalo resting in the midday heat of the Kenyan plains. “Wildlife and me, we have a connection. I feel like I belong among these incredible animals. I don’t know how to explain it. They inspire me, they excite me.”
You teach ancestral skills, from basketry to stone tool construction and more. What sparked your interest?
With the 2023 US Open now underway at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, many tourism-related locations are serving their own offerings. Here is a roundup of other events and activities happening near or around the time of the US Open.
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.
The discussions focused on plans to spur the investment climate in the various tourist destinations across Egypt.
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