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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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 283
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
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…
00:40:16 |
Thu 12 Sep 2024
Travel's Great Renewal (and Reckoning)
Skift Global Forum returns to New York on September 17-19, featuring top travel industry leaders in exclusive interview sessions and talks. Skift's executive editor, Dennis Schaal, joins Seth and Sar…
00:31:12 |
Thu 05 Sep 2024
The State of Travel 2024: Aviation
Our coverage of the Skift State of Travel Report 2024 continues as Seth and Sarah are joined by Airlines Reporter Meghna Maharishi and Research Analyst Ashab Rizvi to discuss the report's insights ab…
00:48:15 |
Thu 29 Aug 2024
The State of Travel 2024: Hotels and Online Travel
With the Skift State of Travel Report 2024 recently published, Seth and Sarah welcome back Senior Research Analyst Pranavi Agarwal and Senior Hospitality editor Sean O'Neill to discuss the report's i…
00:47:38 |
Thu 22 Aug 2024
How to Become a Travel Industry CEO
Erik Blachford has been the CEO of companies large and small (Expedia, Terrapass, Butterfield & Robinson) and serves or has served on numerous boards (Zillow, Peloton Interactive, Glassdoor, etc). He…
00:48:34 |
Thu 15 Aug 2024
What's Going on With the Economy?
Sarah and Seth are joined by Skift Managing Editor Lex Harris to discuss the recent market sell off and how it specifically impacts the travel sector.
See how the industry is faring right now by chec…
00:40:03 |
Thu 08 Aug 2024
Sports Tourism and "Harvesting the Afterglow" of the Olympics
Seth and Sarah are joined by Greg Klassen, a Senior Director at Skift Advisory and former President and CEO of Destination Canada, to discuss what host cities stand to benefit and lose from hosting l…
00:36:08 |
Thu 01 Aug 2024
Accor CEO for Europe on the Transformative Effect of the Paris Olympics
Our series on the Paris Olympics continues as Seth and Sarah speak with Patrick Mendes, the CEO of Europe and North Africa for Accor—an official Olympic partner and the largest hotel group in Europe.…
00:35:16 |
Thu 25 Jul 2024
The Skift Take: Barcelona, Water Guns & Overtourism
In the wake of tourists in Barcelona being attacked with water guns by protesters upset over the consequences of perceived overtourism, Oliver Martin and Aleix Rodríguez Brunsoms of Skift Advisory an…
00:48:40 |
Sun 21 Jul 2024
Air France KLM CEO Ben Smith Talks to Us as Paris Prepares to Host the Olympics
In the first installment of our series celebrating the upcoming Paris Olympics, Seth and Sarah speak with Ben Smith, the CEO of Air France KLM—an official partner of these games and one of the larges…
00:39:27 |
Thu 18 Jul 2024
Venture Capital Investment in 2024
Seth is joined by senior research analyst Pranavi Agarwal and travel technology reporter Justin Dawes to discuss the current state of venture capital investment in the business of travel.
Read the fu…
00:51:04 |
Thu 11 Jul 2024
Summer's Hottest Short-Term Rental Markets
Presented by Brand USA
In this episode of the Skift Travel podcast our hosts are joined by Jamie Lane, Chief Economist at AirDNA, to discuss the short-term rental industry’s outlook for Independence …
00:38:23 |
Wed 03 Jul 2024
Trends in Ultra High Net Worth Travel
Presented by Brand USA
Wealthy travelers aren’t just looking to lie on a beach during their vacations. The super rich are increasingly eager to shell out big bucks for experiences that may shock them…
00:43:30 |
Thu 27 Jun 2024
Where Are the Women in Aviation?
Presented by Brand USA
A growing number of women have led major corporations in recent years — even in historically male-dominated industries. However, the aviation industry has struggled to close it…
00:32:52 |
Thu 20 Jun 2024
What the Heck is Regenerative Tourism, Anyway?
Seth and Sarah are joined by Skift Research Analyst Robin Gilbert-Jones to discuss what regenerative tourism is and how it differs from sustainable tourism, if at all.
Read Skift Research's report on…
00:34:47 |
Thu 13 Jun 2024
What Data, AI, and Short-Term Rental Leaders Told Us This Week
Can property managers successfully build national brands? Have short-term rental businesses tilted too heavily toward travelers instead of homeowners? What has been the impact of New York’s Local Law…
00:33:35 |
Fri 07 Jun 2024
How Ozempic and GLP-1s Are Changing the Business of Travel
A few months back Skift editor-in-chief Sarah Kopit wrote an article for Skift with the headline "Ozempic Made Obesity Optional. The Travel Industry Isn’t Ready".
On today's episode Seth and Sarah ch…
00:40:03 |
Thu 30 May 2024
Is Google Killing Online Travel?
Google Hotels is the largest and most comprehensive metasearch engine in travel. It is a core part of the online travel ecosystem but remains a black box. So Skift Research did an analysis of thousan…
00:28:08 |
Thu 23 May 2024
Business and International Travel Drove Earnings This Quarter
The recent earnings seasons provided a glimpse into how the largest publicly traded travel companies are faring in one of the more "normal" quarters in a number of years.
So what are the main takeawa…
00:36:10 |
Fri 17 May 2024
The State of Conferences
In this special bonus episode, Skift Meetings Executive Editor Andrea Doyle speaks with Skift CEO Rafat Ali and Skift Head of Events Programming Brian Quinn about the "State of Conferences".
00:49:30 |
Sun 12 May 2024
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