Skift Take: Travel marketers have become experts at measuring campaign activity. The challenge now is connecting that activity to visitation,...
Hotel Brands Circle Student Housing: 4 Income Streams
Skift Take: The appeal is in diversifying across multiple income streams: students, extended-stay, traditional brief hotel stays, and coworking. Read...
JetBlue Wins Spirit’s LaGuardia Slots for $58.5 Million — Below Spirit’s Own Estimate
Skift Take: JetBlue’s winning bid comes in well below Spirit's $86.7 million valuation of its LaGuardia slots. Read the Complete...
Expedia’s AI Timeline Runs Through Its Talent Strategy
Skift Take: Expedia is betting its product roadmap on replicating the outsized AI productivity of its elite engineers. According to...
Beaver Creek in Summer: The Ultimate Family Mountain Escape
Easy and family travel don’t always go together. Traveling with kids usually means more planning, more logistics, and more things...
Ari Emanuel Is Assembling a Live Tourism Conglomerate
Skift Take: The companies that originate trips do not need to call themselves travel companies to capture travel's economics, and...
Allegiant, Long an OTA Holdout, Signs an Exclusive Deal With Expedia
Skift Take: A shrinking number of airlines shun online travel agency distribution. Allegiant's deal with Expedia Group means it abandoned...
The World Cup Travel Matrix
Skift Take: Who lifted the trophy for the travel industry's World Cup? Behold Skift's winners, losers, floppers, and the freeloaders.Read...
Europe May Finally Charge International Flights for Emissions — U.S. and China Get a Pass
Skift Take: Associations are unhappy with Europe’s plans to make the aviation industry pay more for its international emissions —...
The Travel Industry Was Banking on a World Cup Windfall. Here’s What the Numbers Show.
Skift Take: The World Cup delivered real, rate-driven gains for hotels and short-term rentals. But the impact was barely noticed...