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.
Listen for exclusive conversations with travel leaders and Skift's own in-house editors and analysts. Presented by EF World Journeys.
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From Pets to Psychedelics: Unpacking 2025 Trave...
The podcast explores Skift’s 2025 travel megatrends, highlighting shifts in pet-friendly travel, influencer-driven tourism, AI in the travel industry, and the rise of unique, authentic experiences and destinations.
41 min
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The New Rules of Frequent Flying: How Loyalty P...
Airline loyalty programs, once reliable avenues to perks and upgrades, have grown increasingly complex and exclusive, prompting traveler frustration and regulatory scrutiny over their transparency and fairness.
36 min
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Battle for Bookings: How Hotels and OTAs Compet...
How and where consumers book their hotel rooms can have huge implications for hotels, online travel agencies, and pretty much anyone in the travel industry. We break it down.
33 min
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The TSA's New Advice for Holiday Travel
Remove your belts, shoes, and jackets and listen in to some tales from the front lines of airport security.
41 min
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What's Next for Airbnb
Skift CEO Rafat Ali and AirDNA Chief Economist Jamie Lane break down Airbnb's new lines of business
41 min
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Labor in the Air: A Conversation With the Presi...
For this special episode, Sarah Nelson, International President of the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA), sits down with Skift Editor-in-Chief Sarah Kopit to discuss critical issues shaping the aviation industry.
26 min
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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.
27 min
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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...
26 min
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How the United Arab Emirates is Building Its Ve...
29 min
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What the Election and Today's Politics Mean for...
28 min
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Big Impact Conversations from Skift Global Foru...
34 min
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Expedia CEO at Skift Global Forum 2024
31 min
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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.
38 min
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Travel's Great Renewal (and Reckoning)
29 min
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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?
38 min
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Sports Tourism and "Harvesting the Afterglow" o...
34 min
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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
49 min
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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.
36 min