Companies have made considerable progress in their quest for gender parity over the years, enacting strong hiring and retention practices that directly benefit female employees and offering family-friendly policies that place women at the center of these efforts.
Robert Harp, Executive Director of Biola University's newly formed Office of Innovation, champion of Biola's annual Startup Competition and beloved professor at Crowell School of Business, passed away unexpectedly at home on Friday, July 17, university leaders announced Friday. The beloved administrator and leader, who devoted his career to business as ministry through building relationships with local and global partners, was 61. He shared his passion for the impact Biola students can make in business and entrepreneurship for the past five years.
Throughput at U.S. airport checkpoints, TSA figures show, is rising fast from its April lows. Twice last week, volumes topped 600,000, compared with fewer than 90,000 in mid-April. It's still a small fraction of what a typical June looks like, but people are indeed traveling more as summer begins. Green shoots, perhaps.
Hilton Worldwide is cutting its global corporate staff by 22 percent, representing 2,100 people, and extending for another three months the furloughs, reduced hours and pay cuts that were announced in late March, the company announced on Tuesday.
Since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, more than half of the 15.8 million travel-related jobs in the U.S. have disappeared, according to a new report from the U.S. Travel Association.
As The Economist recently noted, one of the most obvious consequences of the current Covid-19 pandemic will be "the infusion of data-enabled services into ever more aspects of life." We expect digital transformation to be an even bigger imperative for organizations in the short-term future.
If airlines, trains, cruise ships, taxis, hotels and restaurants want to attract millions of people back as the COVID-19-related restrictions on Americans' mobility melt away, they're all going to have to clean up their acts.
It should have been an upbeat spring semester for University of Denver senior Sophia Burge.
Filip Palmgren had wanted to work on planes since he was a child. Now, after just two years as a flight attendant, the 21-year old has lost his job because of the coronavirus crisis and will be soon heading to work in a hospital instead to help save patients.
Flight attendants with first-aid training are being drafted in to help on the front lines of the battle to beat coronavirus.
Could investors be whispering in Glenn Fogel's ears that what's good for Barry Diller's Expedia Group might be beneficial for Booking Holdings, as well? Booking Holdings is usually a first mover in such online travel initiatives, but in this case, when it comes to cost cutting, it appears as though Booking Holdings heard the rumblings emanating from Expedia Group's Seattle headquarters.
Diller and Kern are taking an ax, as promised, to Expedia Group's payroll. This could be just the first round, and the thinking might be: Why sell to private equity, have those folks squeeze out the cost savings, and reshape the business when we can do it ourselves?
If the cliché "no pain, no gain" applies to disruptor Oyo, then the chain is clearly in the pain part of that equation. The brand has definitely taken a huge reputation hit that will play out for months. There are certainly positives in Oyo's renewed value proposition to many properties if the chain doesn't trip over itself.
Oyo's founder Ritesh Agarwal on Monday sent an internal note to all its India employees confirming rumors that surfaced recently that the budget hotel chain was laying off staff.
With the presidential campaign of Mayor Bill de Blasio foundering from the start, desperation mode hit early. He needed money, support — anything that might prolong his chances.
Facing intense competition and a company in disarray, the Expedia Group board and senior executive Barry Diller have no time to dillydally. No one can forecast what the online travel market will look like in the next five years, but Diller et al need to find a couple of top executives who can quickly figure out Expedia's path forward.
Dillip Rajakarier at the start of the new year will replace Bill Heinecke as group chief executive officer of Minor International while maintaining his role as CEO of Minor Hotels.
The United Nations' International Day of the Girl is a time to focus on the needs and challenges girls face around the world and to ask ourselves how we are promoting empowerment of girls and women and the fulfillment of their human rights.
Amadeus' Luis Maroto came out on top of Skift's annual review of CEO pay at Europe's biggest public travel and hospitality companies.
She rides a bicycle to work. She is soft-spoken, wears no make-up, and does not put on any airs as head of one of the largest tech companies in the world. To present the key note address to an audience of around 200 people from 80 different nationalities, she walks up to the stage in casual attire - a black T-shirt and trousers. Her simplicity is not deceptive. It's both inspiring and heart-warming. Gillian Tans, President and CEO of online travel platform Booking.com, is among the world's highest paid CEOs, with a net-worth of $40 million. (Her salary in 2016 was $17 million.)