The Skift Travel Podcast
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A Ticket to Space is Tourism's Final Frontier
For this week's podcast, host Sarah Kopit is joined by Jane Poynter, a founder of the space tourism company Space Perspective to discuss the next frontier of travel.
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Premium Has a Moment While Airlines Quiet Quit...
Airlines are increasingly placing a heavy emphasis on premium products, and we discuss why in this episode of the Skift Travel Podcast — as well as why some carriers are quietly withdrawing from China.
35 min
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Are We There Yet?: The Arrival of the Family Tr...
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How the United Arab Emirates is Building Its Ve...
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What the Election and Today's Politics Mean for...
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Big Impact Conversations from Skift Global Foru...
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Expedia CEO at Skift Global Forum 2024
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The Most Powerful People in Travel
Who’s the first phone call when a power player wants to make something big happen in the travel industry? Who moves markets and shapes trends with a single sound bite? Skift attempted to answer these questions and more in our first ever Skift Power Rankings.
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Travel's Great Renewal (and Reckoning)
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The State of Travel 2024: Aviation
46 min
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The State of Travel 2024: Hotels and Online Travel
45 min
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How to Become a Travel Industry CEO
46 min
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What's Going on With the Economy?
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Sports Tourism and "Harvesting the Afterglow" o...
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Accor CEO for Europe on the Transformative Effe...
33 min
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The Skift Take: Barcelona, Water Guns & Overtou...
46 min
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Air France KLM CEO Ben Smith Talks to Us as Par...
37 min
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Venture Capital Investment in 2024
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Summer's Hottest Short-Term Rental Markets
Seth and Sarah are joined by AirDNA Chief Economist Jamie Lane. Listen to the three of them chat about the data behind summer travel and short term rentals - who's going where and what the numbers tell us.
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Trends in Ultra High Net Worth Travel
The very wealthy don't travel like everyone else does – we discuss the latest trends for luxury vacations on the Skift Travel Podcast.
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Where Are the Women in Aviation?
Women have struggled to occupy leadership roles in the aviation industry, and we discuss the reasons why and what airlines are doing to reverse the gender gap in this episode of the Skift Travel Podcast.
31 min
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What the Heck is Regenerative Tourism, Anyway?
The goal of regenerative tourism is to leave destinations and the environment better off than they would have been without tourism. But is it really new? And how can we know if it's working?
33 min
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What Data, AI, and Short-Term Rental Leaders To...
Executives speaking at the recent Skift Short-Term Rental Summit discussed a very wide variety of topics, and we talked about some of them in this week's episode of the Skift Travel Podcast.
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How Ozempic and GLP-1s Are Changing the Busines...
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Is Google Killing Online Travel?
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