Riviera Travel will star in two episodes of ‘Cruising with Susan Calman’ airing on January 26 and February 2 on British television network, Channel 5.
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Skift Research produces a wide range of reports, surveys, and data tools – we published more than 50 reports in 2023, a record for us.
Certain reports always stand out: Some were popular with readers, some highlight proprietary insights, and some are just hold a sweet spot in our analysts’ hearts.
We picked 12 of our best reports that highlight new technology, online travel, hotels, airlines, consumer insights, and data products.
Artificial intelligence is on everyone’s lips these days. We promise you: It will come up at least once with family over the holidays. This report was the first in our industry to examine what generative AI could mean for the business of travel. It offers several cases studies and estimates that altogether this tech could represent a $28 billion-plus opportunity for the travel industry.
Hopper has emerged seemingly overnight as the most disruptive booking platform in all of travel. Hopper is leading the way in online travel innovation and forcing everyone else to keep up. How does it do it? How big is it? Where is Hopper headed next? Based on our conversations with senior executives, much of the data and analysis presented in this report is not publicly available anywhere. This report lets you peek under the hood of the most exciting business in online travel.
We web-scraped 5,000 hotels across Google to understand the current state of the online distribution landscape in the U.S. Our analysis found that Google’s actions are allowing small OTAs, new entrants, and direct sites to compete head-on with the legacy players. Could this help weaken the duopolistic distribution power long-held by Booking Holdings and Expedia Group?
This report looks at how online travel booking habits changed during the pandemic and how these behaviors will continue to evolve in 2023 and beyond. We find that many pandemic-era booking habits are not sticking. In particular, the pendulum seems to be swinging back to third-party distribution channels after a strong COVID-era run of direct bookings. We also look at specific booking site market share shifts and investigate whether the trip planning process shifted.
Choice Hotel’s hostile takeover bid for Wyndham is the hot hotel drama to watch in 2024. That makes our report comparing the two from August 2023, before the acquisition offer, feel prescient. Use this easy to read 20-chart report to get up to speed on these businesses and learn why midscale hotels are such a popular market today.
We continued to build on our hotel sustainability work in 2023. This report covers the largest hotel companies, most of which have now set or submitted science-based targets to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. This is an improvement over just a few years ago,
Riviera Travel will star in two episodes of ‘Cruising with Susan Calman’ airing on January 26 and February 2 on British television network, Channel 5.
The upcoming spring break travel period may set new records for hotel occupancy — and prices. So if you’re looking for a place to stay in March and April, what should you do? I asked Tim Hentschel, CEO of HotelPlanner, how to get ahead of the trend and find an affordable hotel.
What are the preferences and behaviors of Millennials and Gen Z travelers across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany?
Change is in the air at Finnair. The Helsinki-based flag carrier has confirmed that Turkka Kuusisto will be the airline’s new chief executive. The appointment follows the resignation of incumbent Topi Manner in August last year.
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2023 was an incredible year for travel—new hotel openings, emerging destinations, and trending food scenes brought us further around the world. And with all that travel comes lots of new gear that editors and readers alike loved. From carry-on essentials and cozy loungewear that make long-haul flights a little more comfortable to supportive walking shoes built for those days when you're clocking 20,000 steps, we tested out some pretty great travel gear this past year—and recommended our favorites to you along the way.
During her time as host of "Samantha Brown's Places to Love," Emmy-winning travel host Samantha Brown has sampled cheese and chocolate in Vienna, visited a turtle hospital in the Florida Keys and played rugby in Auckland, New Zealand, with a professional women's rugby team.
easyJet and easyJet holidays have revealed the latest travel trends for 2024 as bookings took off during the first days of its biggest ever Big Orange Sale, offering up to 20% off over two million seats across Europe and up to £300 off package holidays until 5 February 2024. Flights to Amsterdam, Paris, Geneva, Alicante and Malaga from the UK proved to be the most popular during the sale’s first week, while Hurghada in Egypt, Rovaniemi in Lapland and Milan are among the destinations to have experienced the greatest rise in popularity compared to 2023. Since the launch of the sale, destinations including Prague, Nantes, Berlin, Bilbao and Verona also increased in popularity for Brits compared to 2023.
The brand offers innovatively-designed ships, outstanding service and a focus on active shore excursions and wellness through their signature EmeraldACTIVE program.
Top five destinations for flight bookings during the first week of the Big Orange Sale were Amsterdam, Paris, Geneva, Alicante and Malaga.