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
How Hotels and Short-Term Rentals Fit Together
Marriott’s Homes & Villas unit is taking a different approach to the home-sharing business than many of its competitors, focusing its growth on the company’s vast pool of loyalty members.
This resour…
00:25:56 |
Wed 15 Jun 2022
What’s Next for Tour Operators?
As damaging as Covid was for tour operators, the inability to conduct trips provided companies in the sector a valuable opportunity to reevaluate their all aspects of their businesses.
Ulla Heffer Bö…
00:31:10 |
Wed 08 Jun 2022
Sonder’s Secret Tech Sauce to Sell More Rooms
While hospitality company Sonder has a complex digital strategy in place to fill its properties, what it really wants is for its mostly Gen Z and millennial guests to brag about their cool stays on s…
00:25:06 |
Fri 27 May 2022
How Shifts in Lifestyle and Work Will Reshape Hotels and Vacation Rentals
Blueground's Alex Chatzieleftheriou and Selina's Sam Khazary speak with Skift's Seth Borko at the Skift Future of Lodging Forum in New York City in May 2022.
The college gap year will become a “remo…
00:25:24 |
Sun 22 May 2022
The Definitive History of Short-Term Rentals
Vacation rentals have been around “forever,” but Skift's recent feature The Definitive Oral History of Short-Term Rentals tells the story of short-term rentals as they transitioned from classified ad…
00:48:38 |
Wed 18 May 2022
The Evolution of Airline Loyalty With Delta Air Lines' Loyalty VP
What comes next for travel loyalty?
As travel returns, brand loyalty and retaining trust with long-standing customers is more important than ever. With an increased focus on the customer experience a…
00:23:18 |
Sun 15 May 2022
How Hotels Use Loyalty to Compete
Hospitality is a sector that’s well placed to leverage loyalty in the coming years.
Winning a bigger share of direct bookings has long been a goal of hotel companies, to ease their dependence on onli…
00:18:34 |
Sun 08 May 2022
Why You Can’t Miss the Skift Future of Lodging Forum
We’re looking ahead to a very exciting Future of Lodging Forum on May 11 and 12 in New York City. We will explore what we are calling “The Great Merging” between hotels and short-term rentals, driven…
00:14:38 |
Tue 03 May 2022
The Hotel Innovations Guests Really Want With citizenM CEO Klaas van Lookeren Campagne
CitizenM is renowned not only for its design-forward aesthetic and affordable luxury ethos, but also tools such as in-room MoodPad tablets that control the temperature and blinds and lights that serv…
00:25:11 |
Wed 30 Mar 2022
Skift Daily Briefing: Wyndham’s New Budget Extended Stay Brand
Every weekday morning, New York City time, we publish the Skift Daily Briefing. Today we're sharing the latest Briefing on our Skift Podcast channel
Today’s edition of Skift’s daily podcast discuss…
00:04:37 |
Wed 23 Mar 2022
What Happened When the World Stopped Traveling
Earlier this week we published The Oral History of March 2020: The Month Global Travel Shut Down, a feature that looked at March 2020 from the perspective of two dozen travel leaders. These people sh…
00:31:22 |
Sun 20 Mar 2022
What’s Changed for Hotels With Hilton CEO Chris Nassetta
Hilton CEO Christopher Nassetta spoke with Skift CEO Rafat Ali at Skift Global Forum 2021. The two discussed what’s changed about the way people travel, work, and relax.
“You’re going to be living …
00:34:00 |
Sun 06 Mar 2022
Measuring Airbnb and Booking’s Profit Momentum
Earnings season is wrapping up, which means it's time to compare and contrast the performance of competing travel brands. Since Airbnb went public in 2020, it has given close watchers the opportunity…
00:18:55 |
Tue 01 Mar 2022
Travel’s Fallout from Russia-Ukraine War: Connecting the Dots
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine rages on with the potential to drag out, the ripple effects in the travel industry are unfolding fast as well. In my role as the dots-connector-in-chief for Skift, …
00:13:37 |
Mon 28 Feb 2022
The Connected Trip Travelers Need With Booking CEO Glenn Fogel
Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel spoke with Skift Executive Editor Dennis Schaal at Skift Global Forum 2021. The two discussed Booking's connected trip strategy.
"I believe [in] this connected trip…
00:25:20 |
Sun 27 Feb 2022
The New Demand for Travel With Air France-KLM CEO Benjamin Smith
There is still a long way to go to get to recovery, but even in midst of the rise of the Omicron variant, some travel leaders were looking forward to better times. "There is this huge pent-up demand …
00:23:59 |
Sun 20 Feb 2022
Viator Spinoff Pros and Cons
Earlier this week Tripadvisor revealed that the company was planning to spin off its tours and activity brand Viator. For this bonus episode of the Skift Podcast, senior research analyst Seth Borko a…
00:19:57 |
Fri 18 Feb 2022
Hotels as Lifestyle Brands With Accor CEO Sebastien Bazin
Accor’s CEO is steering the brand towards more luxury and lifestyle properties. Fortunately, hotel owners are more than obliging.
“I’ve been at the helm of this company for the past eight years, an…
00:19:03 |
Sun 13 Feb 2022
Focus on the Travel Consumer With Expedia CEO Peter Kern
“We’re moving away from a competitive house of brands,” Kern said when speaking at Skift Global Forum on Wednesday in New York City. He said he wanted “a simplifying universe of brands” that are “wor…
00:25:09 |
Sun 06 Feb 2022
Travel’s Fascinating Future With Trivago CEO Axel Hefer
Trivago Managing Director and CEO Axel Hefer spoke with Skift Senior Travel Tech Editor Sean O’Neill at Skift Global Forum 2021. The two discussed the future of metasearch and its ability to inspire …
00:16:01 |
Sun 30 Jan 2022
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