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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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 283
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Tourism’s Growth in the Middle East
In anticipation of Skift Global Forum East, happening in Dubai December 12-14, I wanted to sit down with both our Middle East Report, Josh Corder, and Twenty31 Consulting (now Skift Advisory) Managin…
00:41:25 |
Wed 22 Nov 2023
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on Super Apps, AI and Uber Teens
Today on the podcast we feature Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi in conversation with Skift Founder and CEO Rafat Ali onstage at Skift Global Forum in New York City last month.
Among a litany of subjects,…
00:39:24 |
Thu 26 Oct 2023
Choice’s Hostile Takeover Bid for Wyndham Explained
This week Choice Hotels publicly offered to acquire Wyndham Hotels & Resorts following months of private discussions between the two companies. This was pretty exciting in itself, with the last major…
00:33:52 |
Thu 19 Oct 2023
Skift Ideas Podcast: The Power of Opportunity in Hospitality, with Harsha L’acqua
Today, we’re happy to share the latest episode of The Skift Ideas Podcast, which recently returned with its fifth episode. In it, host Colin Nagy is joined by Harsha L'Acqua, Founder and CEO of Saira…
00:37:51 |
Tue 17 Oct 2023
Travel's Future as AI Reshapes The World
Today on the show, we play a rousing session from the recent 10th Annual Skift Global Forum that was held in New York City late last month.
The session, titled "Travel's Future as AI Reshapes The W…
00:50:42 |
Fri 13 Oct 2023
What's Going On at Skift Global Forum 2023?
Skift Editorial Director of Events, Brian Quinn, and Research Director, Seth Borko, preview the topics and speakers of next week's Skift Global Forum.
Happening September 26-28 in New York City, the…
00:30:34 |
Fri 22 Sep 2023
New York City Crackdown: What's Next for Short-Term Rentals
We’re back from our late summer break with a special live streamed panel discussion conducted by Skift's editorial team last week on September 5, the very day that New York City’s short-term rental c…
00:47:16 |
Thu 14 Sep 2023
What the Hopin Fire Sale Tells Us About Events After the Pandemic Era
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.
This week, Miguel has been covering the s…
00:26:29 |
Thu 10 Aug 2023
The Remarkable Recovery of the Travel Industry
Today we feature audio from a livestream presentation done this week by Skift research analysts Seth Borko, Pranavi Agarwal and Varsha Arora, where they discuss some key takeaways and stories from Th…
00:38:22 |
Thu 03 Aug 2023
Predictions from the Legends of Online Travel
As we look ahead to the landmark 10th Skift Global Forum happening this September in New York City, today we take a look back at a panel session from Skift Global Forum 2016 correctly billed as "Lege…
00:36:50 |
Thu 27 Jul 2023
What the Expedia-Hopper Split Means for Online Travel
On Wednesday of last week, Skift broke the bombshell news that Expedia Group—the world’s leading Online Travel Agent—had decided to end its longstanding partnership with Hopper, a rival OTA that Expe…
00:47:38 |
Thu 20 Jul 2023
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, how th…
00:23:20 |
Thu 13 Jul 2023
What's in Store for Hotel Tech and Innovation
Senior hospitality editor Sean O'Neill interviews travel tech reporter Justin Dawes about his experience on the floor of the Hospitality Industry Technology Expo and Conference, better known as HITEC…
00:21:19 |
Thu 06 Jul 2023
Remote Company Retreats and the Business of Team Travel
In late May, the Skift team returned from our annual retreat, which was held this year in Iceland. Still buzzing with the energy and lessons from that experience, we decided to share our insights in …
00:44:19 |
Thu 29 Jun 2023
The Future of Short-Term Rentals: Industry Leaders Look Ahead at Skift Summit
The short-term rental industry has experienced a major boom coming out of the pandemic, driven in large part by the surge in remote work.
But what does the future hold, especially since the sector’s …
00:19:30 |
Thu 22 Jun 2023
New Podcast From Skift: Innovation and Creativity in Travel
In this special episode of the Skift Travel Podcast we introduce listeners to our newest show, the Skift Ideas podcast.
Join travel industry thought leaders Rafat Ali and Colin Nagy on the new Skift …
00:42:06 |
Thu 15 Jun 2023
Where Smart Hospitality Companies Are Investing in 2023
In this episode of the Skift Travel Podcast, Ankur Randev, Chief Commercial Officer of Highgate, discusses the current hospitality investment climate with Skift senior research analyst Pranavi Agarwa…
00:32:28 |
Sun 30 Apr 2023
Surviving As a Travel Startup in An Age of AI
I have known Brian Harniman, the Head of Strategy at digital transformation agency From since the early days of Skift — he was amongst the first online travel veterans to latch on to the potential of…
00:42:50 |
Sun 16 Apr 2023
Rethinking Overtourism in the Post-Covid Era
Episode Summary
It started with a Linkedin post.
When Michael J. O’ Regan, a Lecturer of Tourism at Glasgow Caledonian University posted an academic article he wrote about why we should stop using t…
00:34:31 |
Sat 08 Apr 2023
The Environment for Travel Startup Funding and M&A
Adam Harris, the CEO of hotel management software company Cloudbeds, has a great no-nonsense grasp of the macro – and micro – environment in the startup fundraising world.
On this edition of the Skif…
00:49:10 |
Mon 20 Mar 2023
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