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
Airbnb’s Icons: Gimmick or Marketing Genius?
Last week Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky announced the company's renewed focus on Experiences with its “Icons” product launch. Skift Editor-in-Chief Sarah Kopit was in Los Angeles for the event and got to s…
00:39:25 |
Thu 09 May 2024
The Awakening of Sleep Tourism
Catch up on the importance of sleep tourism as Seth and Sarah discuss its emergence and growing importance in the travel industry.
Building off of Sarah’s recent article in Skift, "The Science of Sle…
00:32:06 |
Thu 02 May 2024
Airbnb's Megawatt Payday and Should Billionaires Exist?
Fresh off the heels of the release of annual financial reports, Seth and Sarah discuss everyone's favorite topic: executive compensation.
They examine how those reported compensation numbers relate …
00:30:30 |
Thu 25 Apr 2024
Meet Skift and Your New Co-Hosts
Our new co-hosts, Editor-in-Chief Sarah Kopit and Head of Research Seth Borko, introduce themselves and talk about what Skift is, how it's quite literally defining the business of travel, and preview…
00:29:16 |
Thu 18 Apr 2024
Loyalty and Short-Term Rentals: What Are The Opportunities Ahead?
As we look forward to the return of the Skift Short-Term Rental Summit on June 5 in New York, today we feature a conversation with Homes and Villas by Marriott International Vice President, Jennifer …
00:27:18 |
Fri 12 Apr 2024
Oberoi CEO on Redefining Luxury for the Affluent Consumer
Vikram Oberoi, The Oberoi Group CEO and Managing Director, speaks with Skift Senior Hospitality Editor Sean O'Neill. This discussion took place on stage at the inaugural Skift India Summit this month…
00:21:49 |
Thu 04 Apr 2024
US Ambassador to India on Bridging the U.S. and India in the Decade Ahead
Today we feature a discussion that took place on stage at the inaugural Skift India Summit this month in New Delhi, India.
In this conversation Eric Garcetti, United States Ambassador to the Republic…
00:29:36 |
Thu 28 Mar 2024
How Air India's CEO Plans to Connect India to the World
Today we feature a discussion that took place on stage at the inaugural Skift India Summit this week in New Delhi, India.
In this conversation Air India CEO and Managing Director Campbell Wilson spea…
00:30:09 |
Thu 21 Mar 2024
Is India Safe for Female Travelers?
Last week, as the world came together to celebrate International Women's Day, news that a Brazilian tourist had accused seven men of gang rape in a remote region of India, prompted Skift Asia Editor …
00:27:13 |
Tue 12 Mar 2024
Megatrends 2024: Robots and The Loneliness Crisis
In our fifth and final episode covering Skift’s Megatrends for 2024, Editor-in-chief Sarah Kopit is joined by Skift Founder and CEO Rafat Ali to discuss two megatrends centered around technology, dem…
00:37:00 |
Thu 07 Mar 2024
Reaching the Emerging Traveler
Andy Washington, Trip.com Group's General Manager for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), joins Pranavi Agarwal, Senior Research Analyst for Skift Research, in a session titled “Reaching the …
00:27:53 |
Thu 15 Feb 2024
Megatrends 2024: Artificial Intelligence, the Ozempic Era and Extreme Wellness
Our Megatrends series continues today as Skift Editor-in-Chief Sarah Kopit is joined by Skift Travel Technology Reporter Justin Dawes, and Colin Nagy, a Skift contributor and host of The Skift Ideas …
00:33:39 |
Fri 09 Feb 2024
Megatrends 2024: How India and the Middle East Will Define Travel in 2024
Continuing our series on Skift’s Megatrends for 2024, today we feature a conversation focused on developments reshaping India, the Middle East, and by extension, the whole of the global travel busine…
00:30:07 |
Thu 01 Feb 2024
Megatrends 2024: Junk Fees, Supply Chains and Climate Change
On our second episode exploring Skift’s Megatrends for 2024, Skift Editor-in-Chief Sarah Kopit is joined by Managing Editor Lex Harris, Airlines Editor and Reporter Gordon Smith, and Airline Weekly S…
00:37:11 |
Thu 25 Jan 2024
Megatrends 2024: How Hotels Will Seduce the Middle Class Traveler
Skift’s Megatrends for 2024 were released at the beginning of the year, our 12th annual reporting on the trends defining the travel industry.
Today, we’re proud to present the first episode in a seri…
00:31:58 |
Thu 18 Jan 2024
Analyzing China’s Travel Reopening, Exactly A Year In
One year ago, on January 8 2023, China began reopening to tourism. In our first dispatch of 2024, Skift founder and CEO, Rafat Ali, talks with Check-In Asia director, Gary Bowerman, to discuss the st…
00:33:32 |
Thu 04 Jan 2024
Connection in the Age of AI with Google Head of Travel Sales
Today we feature Hany Abdelkawi, Head of Travel Sales for Google, in conversation with Skift CEO and Founder, Rafat Ali, on stage in Dubai at Skift Global Forum East this December. They spoke on the …
00:38:10 |
Thu 28 Dec 2023
Inspiring Innovation in Hospitality with Kerzner CEO Philippe Zuber
Today we feature Kerzner Internaltional CEO, Philippe Zuber, in conversation with Skift Editor-in-Chief, Sarah Kopit, on stage in Dubai at Skift Global Forum East last week. They spoke on the topic o…
00:28:35 |
Thu 21 Dec 2023
Bringing Travel into the Future at Skift Global Forum East
As we prepare to return to Dubai on December 12-14, we're revisiting a few of the most popular sessions.
This episode of the Skift Travel Podcast is a rebroadcast of a session that took place at Skif…
00:30:44 |
Thu 07 Dec 2023
A Global Outlook for the Year Ahead at Skift Global Forum East
This episode of the Skift Travel Podcast is a rebroadcast of a session that took place at Skift Global Forum East in December of last year: "A Global Outlook for the Year Ahead" featuring Hilton Pres…
00:37:06 |
Thu 30 Nov 2023
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