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
Busting Myths About Deglobalization and What It Means For Travel
Parag Khanna is an author, geopolitical scientist and founder of Climate Alpha, an AI-powered analytics platform forecasting asset values and future-proof global real estate, as well as FutureMap, a …
00:37:17 |
Mon 06 Mar 2023
Hotel Earnings Season Wrap-Up and 2023 Outlook
Hotel earnings season has just ended, with public hotel companies reporting their end of 2022 performances. In the latest Skift Podcast, our team covers the highlights, reviews the 2023 outlook, and …
00:32:08 |
Fri 03 Mar 2023
The Big Issues Facing the Hotel Industry in 2023
Today, we’re going to look at some of the future trends happening across hospitality and the big questions facing the sector as a preview for our Future of Lodging Forum happening in London on March …
00:15:47 |
Sat 11 Feb 2023
India's Potential as the Tourism Success Story of the Next 40 Years
India is projected to surpass China as the world's most populous country later this year, as China begins to decline and India's population growth shows no sign of slowing until 2064. That shift carr…
00:56:36 |
Sat 21 Jan 2023
Southwest’s Terrible Holiday Fail
For this bonus episode of the Skift Travel Podcast, we turn to our colleagues at Airline Weekly for perspective on Southwest Airlines.
As most of the traveling public knows, the airline had a terribl…
00:21:48 |
Mon 09 Jan 2023
Why Marriott CEO Anthony Capuano Is Optimistic About 2023
Marriott CEO Anthony Capuano took the stage at Skift Global Forum in September 2022 to discuss what the hotel giant had accomplished in 2022 and where it was headed in the coming year
“I’m optimist…
00:27:32 |
Wed 28 Dec 2022
Hilton CEO's Outlook for 2023
Skift founder Rafat Ali interviewed Hilton CEO Christopher Nassetta via hologram Wednesday at Skift Global Forum East in Dubai. Nassetta said Hilton expects to organically develop its own new brands …
00:36:40 |
Mon 19 Dec 2022
Generative AI and the Future of Travel
Something shifted in the last two weeks on the zeitgeist about the use of artificial intelligence in our daily personal and professional lives.
The launch of the first large-scale, general purpose c…
00:45:27 |
Fri 09 Dec 2022
Expedia's CEO on the Great Opportunities in Travel
A lot of ground was covered during Peter Kern’s appearance at Skift Global Forum in New York City on September 21. The vice chairman and CEO of Expedia Group gave his take on technology, micro-servic…
00:30:27 |
Tue 29 Nov 2022
IHG Hotels CEO on Scale and Strategy
"I’m really excited about the quality of the brand portfolio," IHG CEO Keith Barr said at Skift Global Forum. Barr goes on to describe the current realities of the hotel business: it's a real estate …
00:26:51 |
Tue 22 Nov 2022
American Airlines CEO on the New Flying Normal
For this bonus episode of The Skift Travel Podcast, we turn to Dallas where we held our first in-person Skift Aviation Forum earlier this week. To begin the event, we invited American Airlines CEO Ro…
00:34:02 |
Fri 18 Nov 2022
Balancing the Future With JetBlue's COO Joanna Geraghty
“I’m going to bring you behind the tent, tell you what we’re doing,” JetBlue Airways COO Joanna Geraghty said at Skift Global Forum earlier this fall.
In a conversation with Airline Weekly Editor Ne…
00:25:22 |
Wed 16 Nov 2022
What Tech Layoffs Mean for Travel Brands
At at time when the travel industry is still grappling with a labor shortage, you have to think some companies in the sector are "labor hoarding," hanging on to workers that might have otherwise been…
00:21:56 |
Thu 10 Nov 2022
Google's Plans for the Future of Travel
Google is one of the undisputed heavyweights in online travel. So when one of the key masterminds behind all of its travel platforms and products talks about where the search giant is heading, it's w…
00:30:47 |
Wed 09 Nov 2022
Navigating Leadership, Community, and the Road Ahead With Waze CEO Nema Parikh
Waze has 151 million monthly active users, and is more than an app to beat traffic jams, Waze CEO Neha Parikh told Skift senior research analyst Seth Borko, as they dissected the intersections betwee…
00:27:48 |
Sun 30 Oct 2022
What’s Next for Disney Parks
In one year, the Walt Disney Company will be an astounding 100 years old. At Skift Global Forum, Disney Parks, Experiences and Products Chairman Josh D’Amaro excitedly talked to Skift Senior Research…
00:26:13 |
Mon 24 Oct 2022
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky: Reimagining Travel’s Future
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.
Airbnb co-founder and CE…
00:36:34 |
Fri 07 Oct 2022
What's Next for Travel with Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel
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…
00:30:29 |
Tue 27 Sep 2022
Why Sustainable Tourism Is Good for Business
Today on the Skift Travel Podcast we feature a session entitled "The Business Advantage of Sustainability" that was recorded live during this year's Skift Sustainable Tourism Summit.
In this session…
00:26:08 |
Tue 12 Jul 2022
Sustainability Isn't Easy With Intrepid Travel's Darrell Wade
The chairman and co-founder of Intrepid Travel has said there was too much “rhetorical flourish” from travel companies when it comes to discussing sustainability.
Speaking at the Skift Sustainable To…
00:24:01 |
Sun 03 Jul 2022
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