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.
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Creating a Google-Crushing Superapp With Hopper...
Hopper has big plans ahead in its ongoing mission to continue being the best at lowering the cost of travel for consumers — it’s betting on the future of superapps for travel, which are already popular in Asia.
“There will be a Western global superapp fo...
21 min
152
A New Age of Mobility with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky acknowledged that enough affordable housing is a major challenge but argued that the new flexible nature of work wrought by the pandemic will see people migrating to city corridors and other less-dense locales where residences can...
29 min
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Virtual Meetings And Business Travel With Ameri...
Like many airline chiefs, Doug Parker is “bullish” on the future, particularly after a surge in demand for transatlantic flights after the travel ban lifted on Nov. 8. But American Airlines is poised to begin 2022 as a larger airline — despite labor woes...
27 min
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Growing While Going Net Zero With Marriott CEO ...
The world’s largest hotel company plans to juggle global growth over the next few decades with a major step forward in its sustainability efforts.
Marriott International CEO Anthony Capuano announced September 22, 2021 at Skift Global Forum a company pla...
22 min
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Winning Customers On Quality With United Airlin...
“We will win customers on quality,” Kirby said at the Skift Aviation Forum on November 17, 2021. And he had plenty of examples quality improvements to cite: The addition of premium-heavy “high-J” Boeing 767-300ERs that fly to Europe, the Bombardier CRJ-5...
34 min
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What Happens When Big Events Return?
For this episode of the Skift Podcast, we're featuring a conversation between William J. Hornbuckle, Chief Executive Officer and President of MGM Resorts International and Skift Hospitality Reporter Cameron Sperance. The two discuss the return of big eve...
24 min
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Where Do Short-Term Rentals Go From Here?
The recent Skift Short-Term Rental and Outdoor Summit brought together leaders from online rental marketplaces, investors, startup founders, and outdoor recreation operators for interviews with Skift editors and research analysts. We uncovered what might...
29 min
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Bonus Episode: The Future of the Event Industry
While Skift Podcast is on hiatus, we wanted to share the first episode of the Event Manager Podcast, a production of our partner site EventMB.
Julius Solaris founded Event Manager Blog in 2007, as a result of his passion for events and in the process di...
40 min
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Skift Forum Sessions: Marriott Group President ...
Marriott Group President Stephanie Linnartz speaks with Skift Hospitality Reporter Cameron Sperance at Skift Forum Asia in October 2020.
Learn more about our slate of online events in 2021 at live.skift.com.
22 min
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Skift Forum Sessions: IAC/Expedia Group Chairma...
IAC/Expedia Group Chairman Barry Diller speaks with Skift Editor-in-Chief Tom Lowry at Skift Global Forum in September 2020.
Learn more about our slate of online events in 2021 at live.skift.com.
26 min
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Skift Daily Briefing for January 12, 2021
Your daily insight into the business of travel from the industry’s most trusted authority.
We are excited to share another update from the Skift Daily Briefing. Our daily podcast tells listeners what they need to know about the top travel stories in jus...
4 min
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Regulating the Short-Term Rental Economy
What a difference a year makes — and perhaps a pandemic. During a discussion at this year's Skift Short-Term Rental & Outdoor Summit on December 9, held online, signs of more collaborative environment emerged between cities and short-term rental operator...
41 min
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Airbnb's IPO: What It Means at Skift
Since Skift's own launch it was the first media outlet to ask hard questions of Airbnb, and it has been amazing to document that journey of the company from start till its IPO day and beyond. Here are CEO Rafat Ali's thoughts in an audio essay.
Read comp...
14 min
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How Diversity Fuels Creativity: Lessons for the...
In early November Skift hosted its first Design the Future event, an afternoon of discussions with leaders in the design and creativity space. As part of this, we're posting extracts of these conversations.
Host: Robert Rosenthal, author, speaker, and j...
27 min
165
Travel Industry Outlook: Post-U.S. Election and...
What a difference a few days make for optimism in the beleaguered travel industry. With the clarity on U.S. presidential election results coming this past weekend and the encouraging news on vaccine development and effectiveness from Pfizer, the travel i...
49 min
166
Tripadvisor CEO on Selling Just The Right Tours...
In the closing interview for Skift Forum Asia, Tripadvisor CEO Steve Kaufer argued that his company and its Viator brand are in the “pole position” because of the company’s vast content and international reach in tours and activities. Kaufer is interview...
27 min
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How Travel Metasearch Survives a Pandemic (With...
At Skift's recent Travel’s Path Forward: Online Travel event, Skift Executive Editor Dennis Schaal interviewed Kayak and OpenTable CEO Steve Hafner about the state of travel metasearch, restaurant bookings, and what digital discovery and booking looks li...
22 min
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Consumer Spending Is Changing Travel Loyalty (W...
At the Travel Loyalty Online Summit on July 16, 2020, Skift Aviation Business Editor Zoomed The Points Guy's Brian Kelly to talk about how consumer spending during the Covid-19 pandemic and (hopefully) afterwards will change how airlines, other travel br...
22 min
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Skift Daily Briefing, June 24, 2020
Your daily insight into the business of travel from the industry’s most trusted authority.
We are excited to share another update from the Skift Daily Briefing. Our daily podcast tells listeners what they need to know about the top travel stories in jus...
3 min
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Oyo and the Future of Hospitality After the Crisis
Oyo has been in the eye of the storm for the last year, for many reasons Skift has covered over time. But with coronavirus shutting down a big part of its business in India, China, and other countries, the acceleration of its troubles have continued.
Thr...
52 min
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Hotels and the Coronavirus
In this unprecedented downturn in travel as a result of Covid-19, the crisis is impacting every hotel company, from the top chains to small hotel operators. Major declines in occupancy and room rates are a global problem, which has forced many hotels to ...
99 min
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Skift Daily Briefing May 15, 2020
We are excited to share another update from the Skift Daily Briefing. Our daily podcast tells listeners what they need to know about the top travel stories in just under four minutes. It’s available every weekday morning at 6:30 a.m. ET on podcast apps f...
3 min
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The State of Short-Term Rentals
As the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a sharp decline for both the rapidly expanding urban short-term rental market and the prospects of a busy summer vacation rental season, how can players both large and small across alternative-accommodations best ...
96 min
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Skift Daily Briefing May 5, 2020
We are excited to share another update from the Skift Daily Briefing. Our daily podcast tells listeners what they need to know about the top travel stories in just under four minutes. It’s available every weekday morning at 6:30 a.m. ET on podcast apps f...
3 min
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Bonus Episode: Skift Daily Briefing 03/30/20
We are excited to share another update from the Skift Daily Briefing. Our daily podcast tells listeners what they need to know about the top travel stories in just under four minutes. It’s available every weekday morning at 6:30 a.m. ET on podcast apps f...
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