The Skift Travel Podcast
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Skift sits down with creatives, executives, and entrepreneurs from across travel to discuss their insights and perspectives on the hows and whys of travelers’ habits, industry patterns, and the seismic changes happening across the industry.
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Hotels as Lifestyle Brands With Accor CEO Sebas...
Accor’s CEO is steering the brand towards more luxury and lifestyle properties. Fortunately, hotel owners are more than obliging.
“I’ve been at the helm of this company for the past eight years, and I’ve been trying to wake up a sleeping giant, which Acc...
18 min
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Focus on the Travel Consumer With Expedia CEO P...
“We’re moving away from a competitive house of brands,” Kern said when speaking at Skift Global Forum on Wednesday in New York City. He said he wanted “a simplifying universe of brands” that are “working toward a common goal.”
Expedia Group Vice Chairman...
24 min
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Travel’s Fascinating Future With Trivago CEO Ax...
Trivago Managing Director and CEO Axel Hefer spoke with Skift Senior Travel Tech Editor Sean O’Neill at Skift Global Forum 2021. The two discussed the future of metasearch and its ability to inspire travelers.
"Travel is absolutely fascinating right now,...
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Travel Uncertainty in 2022 With KAKAK CEO Steve...
Each year, our Megatrends event brings together industry leaders -- the people creating and defining the future of travel -- to hear Skift’s deep reporting and research around the global travel industry. Through the thousands and thousands of hours spent...
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Search and Sustainable Travel With Google Trave...
Google will put an eco-badge of sorts next to a listing if sustainability-minded firms like GreenKey or EarthCheck have highlighted a hotel for its positive impact with environmental practices. Potential guests can even find out property-specific sustain...
21 min
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Bringing Everything to You With Uber CEO Dara K...
Uber's CEO doesn't want to offer a super app for everything, but he believes his company is in the best position to bring consumers anything they need, from rides, to food, to medicine, and more.
“Anything you want to be delivered to your home with a fre...
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Bonus Episode: Skift Daily Briefing for Jan. 6,...
Thanks for listening to the Skift Podcast. We have another podcast you can listen to every weekday morning. The Skift Daily Briefing podcast delivers the day's top headlines in under four minutes. Search for "Skift Daily Briefing" in your favorite podcas...
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The Travel Industry’s 6 Under-Appreciated Story...
Skift CEO Rafat Ali explains the underappreciated storylines from the last year that will continue to define the travel industry in 2022.
The United States, Latin America, and Dubai will remain open by prioritizing keeping their economies open over every...
17 min
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Another Year of Recovery and Optimism With Sout...
New Southwest Airlines CEO Robert Jordan said that he sees 2022 as another “transition” year in the recovery. He is optimistic that business travelers will return — his predecessor has said this may take 5-10 years — but does not expect this to occur ove...
22 min
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Online Travel Agency Factboook: The Top 11 Glob...
Skift Research’s Online Travel Agency Factbook is your one-stop shop to understand the global universe of online booking sites.
We collected data on and built individual profiles for the 11 largest publicly traded online travel agencies. We analyzed the ...
26 min
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Privacy and Frictionless Travel With CLEAR CEO
Clear's previous experience vetting travelers and moving them quickly through airport security put it in an excellent position to take on the challenges of identity, health, and vaccination in the (hopefully) coming post-Covid panic world.
"Cyber and pri...
22 min
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What Happens To Travel Now? With Skift CEO Rafa...
Cancellations and closures are on the rise as countries react to the Omicron variant. What does this mean for a recently optimistic travel industry?
This special episode of the Skift Podcast features Skift founder and CEO, Rafat Ali, looking ahead to ear...
17 min
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Creating a Google-Crushing Superapp With Hopper...
Hopper has big plans ahead in its ongoing mission to continue being the best at lowering the cost of travel for consumers — it’s betting on the future of superapps for travel, which are already popular in Asia.
“There will be a Western global superapp fo...
21 min
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A New Age of Mobility with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky acknowledged that enough affordable housing is a major challenge but argued that the new flexible nature of work wrought by the pandemic will see people migrating to city corridors and other less-dense locales where residences can...
29 min
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Virtual Meetings And Business Travel With Ameri...
Like many airline chiefs, Doug Parker is “bullish” on the future, particularly after a surge in demand for transatlantic flights after the travel ban lifted on Nov. 8. But American Airlines is poised to begin 2022 as a larger airline — despite labor woes...
27 min
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Growing While Going Net Zero With Marriott CEO ...
The world’s largest hotel company plans to juggle global growth over the next few decades with a major step forward in its sustainability efforts.
Marriott International CEO Anthony Capuano announced September 22, 2021 at Skift Global Forum a company pla...
22 min
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Winning Customers On Quality With United Airlin...
“We will win customers on quality,” Kirby said at the Skift Aviation Forum on November 17, 2021. And he had plenty of examples quality improvements to cite: The addition of premium-heavy “high-J” Boeing 767-300ERs that fly to Europe, the Bombardier CRJ-5...
34 min
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What Happens When Big Events Return?
For this episode of the Skift Podcast, we're featuring a conversation between William J. Hornbuckle, Chief Executive Officer and President of MGM Resorts International and Skift Hospitality Reporter Cameron Sperance. The two discuss the return of big eve...
24 min
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Where Do Short-Term Rentals Go From Here?
The recent Skift Short-Term Rental and Outdoor Summit brought together leaders from online rental marketplaces, investors, startup founders, and outdoor recreation operators for interviews with Skift editors and research analysts. We uncovered what might...
29 min
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Bonus Episode: The Future of the Event Industry
While Skift Podcast is on hiatus, we wanted to share the first episode of the Event Manager Podcast, a production of our partner site EventMB.
Julius Solaris founded Event Manager Blog in 2007, as a result of his passion for events and in the process di...
40 min
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Skift Forum Sessions: Marriott Group President ...
Marriott Group President Stephanie Linnartz speaks with Skift Hospitality Reporter Cameron Sperance at Skift Forum Asia in October 2020.
Learn more about our slate of online events in 2021 at live.skift.com.
22 min
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Skift Forum Sessions: IAC/Expedia Group Chairma...
IAC/Expedia Group Chairman Barry Diller speaks with Skift Editor-in-Chief Tom Lowry at Skift Global Forum in September 2020.
Learn more about our slate of online events in 2021 at live.skift.com.
26 min
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Skift Daily Briefing for January 12, 2021
Your daily insight into the business of travel from the industry’s most trusted authority.
We are excited to share another update from the Skift Daily Briefing. Our daily podcast tells listeners what they need to know about the top travel stories in jus...
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Regulating the Short-Term Rental Economy
What a difference a year makes — and perhaps a pandemic. During a discussion at this year's Skift Short-Term Rental & Outdoor Summit on December 9, held online, signs of more collaborative environment emerged between cities and short-term rental operator...
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Airbnb's IPO: What It Means at Skift
Since Skift's own launch it was the first media outlet to ask hard questions of Airbnb, and it has been amazing to document that journey of the company from start till its IPO day and beyond. Here are CEO Rafat Ali's thoughts in an audio essay.
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