Skift Take: Passport rankings are a lagging indicator of something travel companies should watch in real time: how easily —...
Riyadh Air Waited Years for New Planes. Now Six Have Arrived in 30 Days
Skift Take: For a startup with no legacy fleet to fall back on, delivery delays were painful. But taking such...
Travel Marketing’s Next KPI Is Economic Impact, Not Impressions
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...