The Skift Travel Podcast
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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky: Reimagining Travel’s F...
Skift founder and CEO Rafat Ali interviewed Chesky on stage at the Skift Global Forum in September 2022 in Manhattan, where the Airbnb CEO detailed his vision of the new era.
34 min
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What's Next for Travel with Booking Holdings CE...
The world’s largest travel company Booking Holdings is using people’s anxieties about their trips as a lens through which it prioritizes the products and services it is refining and introducing, such as flight search and insurance or other paid guarantees to cover when things go wrong.
28 min
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Why Sustainable Tourism Is Good for Business
Radisson Hotel Group's Inge Huijbrechts and Cooler's Michel Gelobter speak with Skift's Sean O'Neill at the Skift Sustainable Tourism Summit in June 2022.
25 min
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Sustainability Isn't Easy With Intrepid Travel'...
Intrepid's Darrell Wade
23 min
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How Hotels and Short-Term Rentals Fit Together
Marriott’s Homes & Villas unit is taking a different approach to the home-sharing business than many of its competitors, focusing its growth on the company’s vast pool of loyalty members.
24 min
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What’s Next for Tour Operators?
Ulla Heffer Böhler, chief operating officer for the Travel Corporation, and Travis Pittman, the CEO & co-founder of TourRadar, spoke with Skift Senior Travel Tech Editor Sean O’Neill at Skift Forum Europe 2022.
29 min
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Sonder’s Secret Tech Sauce to Sell More Rooms
While hospitality company Sonder has a complex digital strategy in place to fill its properties, what it really wants is for its mostly Gen Z and millennial guests to brag about their cool stays on social media.
24 min
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How Shifts in Lifestyle and Work Will Reshape H...
Blueground's Alex Chatzieleftheriou and Selina's Sam Khazary speak with Skift's Seth Borko.
24 min
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The Definitive History of Short-Term Rentals
This is a primer in the evolution of the vacation rental industry, as told through the reminisces, anecdotes and insights of key people.
47 min
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The Evolution of Airline Loyalty With Delta Air...
Delta's Prashant Sharma is joined by Skift's Brian Sumers as they participate in the session "The Evolution of Airline Loyalty and Innovating to Engage Customers" at Skift Travel Loyalty Summit in April 2022.
22 min
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How Hotels Use Loyalty to Compete
IHG's Heather Balsley is joined by Skift's Sean O'Neill as they participate in the session "How Are Hotels Revamping Their Programs to Stay Competitive?" at Skift Travel Loyalty Summit in April 2022.
17 min
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Why You Can’t Miss the Skift Future of Lodging ...
Skift's Founder, Rafat Ali, and Director of Editorial Events, Brian Quinn, discuss the upcoming inaugural edition of the Skift Future of Lodging Summit.
13 min
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The Hotel Innovations Guests Really Want With c...
CitizenM is renowned not only for its design-forward aesthetic and affordable luxury ethos, but also tools such as in-room MoodPad tablets that control the temperature and blinds and lights that serve as TV remote controls.
But digitization will never re...
24 min
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Skift Daily Briefing: Wyndham’s New Budget Exte...
Every weekday morning, New York City time, we publish the Skift Daily Briefing. Today we're sharing the latest Briefing on our Skift Podcast channel
Today’s edition of Skift’s daily podcast discusses Wyndham Hotel’s new brand, Asia’s tourism rebound, an...
3 min
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What Happened When the World Stopped Traveling
Earlier this week we published The Oral History of March 2020: The Month Global Travel Shut Down, a feature that looked at March 2020 from the perspective of two dozen travel leaders. These people shared their personal stories of pain, shock, and of resi...
30 min
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What’s Changed for Hotels With Hilton CEO Chris...
Hilton CEO Christopher Nassetta spoke with Skift CEO Rafat Ali at Skift Global Forum 2021. The two discussed what’s changed about the way people travel, work, and relax.
“You’re going to be living in a world of greater mobility,” Nassetta said. “We’re go...
33 min
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Measuring Airbnb and Booking’s Profit Momentum
Earnings season is wrapping up, which means it's time to compare and contrast the performance of competing travel brands. Since Airbnb went public in 2020, it has given close watchers the opportunity to put up against other online booking giants, in part...
18 min
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Travel’s Fallout from Russia-Ukraine War: Conne...
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine rages on with the potential to drag out, the ripple effects in the travel industry are unfolding fast as well. In my role as the dots-connector-in-chief for Skift, I run through the impact on the travel industry as we ...
12 min
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The Connected Trip Travelers Need With Booking ...
Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel spoke with Skift Executive Editor Dennis Schaal at Skift Global Forum 2021. The two discussed Booking's connected trip strategy.
"I believe [in] this connected trip," Fogel said. "I don’t think it’s just a bunch of words....
24 min
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The New Demand for Travel With Air France-KLM C...
There is still a long way to go to get to recovery, but even in midst of the rise of the Omicron variant, some travel leaders were looking forward to better times. "There is this huge pent-up demand for leisure travel and destinations where there was big...
23 min
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Viator Spinoff Pros and Cons
Earlier this week Tripadvisor revealed that the company was planning to spin off its tours and activity brand Viator. For this bonus episode of the Skift Podcast, senior research analyst Seth Borko and executive editor Dennis Schaal debate the merits of ...
19 min
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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,...
15 min
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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...
31 min