The Skift Travel Podcast

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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
102
Travel's Great Renewal (and Reckoning)
29 min
103
The State of Travel 2024: Aviation
46 min
104
The State of Travel 2024: Hotels and Online Travel
45 min
105
How to Become a Travel Industry CEO
46 min
106
What's Going on With the Economy?
38 min
107
Sports Tourism and "Harvesting the Afterglow" o...
34 min
108
Accor CEO for Europe on the Transformative Effe...
33 min
109
The Skift Take: Barcelona, Water Guns & Overtou...
46 min
110
Air France KLM CEO Ben Smith Talks to Us as Par...
37 min
111
Venture Capital Investment in 2024
49 min
112
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
113
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.
41 min
114
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
115
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
116
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.
31 min
117
How Ozempic and GLP-1s Are Changing the Busines...
38 min
118
Is Google Killing Online Travel?
26 min
119
Business and International Travel Drove Earning...
The recent earnings seasons provided a glimpse into how the largest publicly traded travel companies are faring.
34 min
120
The State of Conferences
47 min
121
Airbnb’s Icons: Gimmick or Marketing Genius?
37 min
122
The Awakening of Sleep Tourism
30 min
123
Airbnb's Megawatt Payday and Should Billionaire...
28 min
124
Meet Skift and Your New Co-Hosts
27 min
125
Loyalty and Short-Term Rentals: What Are The Op...
25 min