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How Air India's CEO Plans to Connect India to t...
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Is India Safe for Female Travelers?
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Megatrends 2024: Robots and The Loneliness Crisis
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Reaching the Emerging Traveler
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Megatrends 2024: Artificial Intelligence, the O...
30 min
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Megatrends 2024: How India and the Middle East ...
This week’s podcast looks closer at the evolving dynamics of travel in India and the Middle East, highlighting the intersection of cultural influence, economic changes, and strategic marketing.
28 min
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Megatrends 2024: Junk Fees, Supply Chains and C...
35 min
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Megatrends 2024: How Hotels Will Seduce the Mid...
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Analyzing China’s Travel Reopening, Exactly A Y...
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Connection in the Age of AI with Google Head of...
36 min
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Inspiring Innovation in Hospitality with Kerzne...
26 min
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Bringing Travel into the Future at Skift Global...
As we prepare to return to Dubai on December 12-14, we're revisiting a few of the most popular sessions.
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A Global Outlook for the Year Ahead at Skift Gl...
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Tourism’s Growth in the Middle East
Skift’s Middle East specialists sit down to discuss a big picture view on growth and dynamics in the Middle East.
39 min
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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on Super Apps, AI an...
A Fireside Chat with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi
37 min
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Choice’s Hostile Takeover Bid for Wyndham Expla...
In this episode Skift's hotel experts talk us through the details of the Choice-Wyndham deal, what might be motivating each side's actions, and what the story tells us about the current state of the hospitality landscape.
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Skift Ideas Podcast: The Power of Opportunity i...
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Travel's Future as AI Reshapes The World
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What's Going On at Skift Global Forum 2023?
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New York City Crackdown: What's Next for Short-...
44 min
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What the Hopin Fire Sale Tells Us About Events ...
Today on the program, Skift Lead Producer Jose Marmolejos speaks with Miguel Neves, Editor-in-Chief of Skift Meetings and host of the Skift Meetings Podcast.
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The Remarkable Recovery of the Travel Industry
Today we feature audio from a livestream presentation done this week by Skift research analysts discussing The State of Travel in 2023
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Predictions from the Legends of Online Travel
The prognostications you’ll hear in this session give us some insight into the answer, and we can be certain that this question will loom large at the coming Skift Global Forum as our sessions look to tackle the theme of “Connection in the Age of AI”.
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What the Expedia-Hopper Split Means for Online ...
On this episode of the podcast Skift's Lead Producer Jose Marmolejos speaks with Skift's Founding Editor and Executive Editor Dennis Schaal (the journalist who broke that story), as well as Skift Research Analyst Pranavi Agarwal (who recently published the definitive deep dive report on Hopper’s business model and performance), about why Hopper and Expedia’s business relationship fell apart so suddenly and dramatically.
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U.S. Cities Fight to Win Back Tourists
Skift Asia Editor Peden Doma Bhutia interviews Global Tourism Reporter Dawit Habtemariam about the series of articles he's written recently for Skift.com that detail the plight of U.S. cities
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