Skift Global Forum East 2025: 9 Takeaways for the Future of Travel
Skift partnered with Abu Dhabi's tourism authority to analyze key industry shifts, from the Middle East's growing influence to AI's impact on travel planning.
Skift partnered with Abu Dhabi's tourism authority to analyze key industry shifts, from the Middle East's growing influence to AI's impact on travel planning.
HVS index tracks hotel values across 23 markets in 16 countries, with Riyadh leading at +100% growth since 2019, driven by tourism strategies and infrastructure investment.
Cloudbeds, the intelligent unified platform powering hotel growth, and Duetto, the industry's leading provider of revenue and profit software, have released their first-ever Hotel Market Pulse report, providing performance and profitability analysis for hoteliers worldwide based on the data managed by both companies.
At its 25th Global Summit in Rome today, the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) launched its latest report, revealing that Europe remains the beating heart of international tourism, with five of the world's top 10 most powerful Travel & Tourism markets by GDP.
Iconic destinations like Rome and London saw satisfaction soar, while others like Stockholm and Copenhagen slipped behind. Guest expectations kept climbing, even as review volumes dipped—making every review, and every response, more impactful than ever.
CBRE Hotels prepares annual industry outlooks for the Canadian accommodation industry. This release details CBRE's 5-year national outlook, an updated 2025 forecast, and the 2026 outlook for 13 Canadian major markets and the provinces.
CBRE's latest Asia Pacific Hotels & Hospitality Performance & Outlook report explores the key trends driving hotel performance in Asia Pacific, as well as the outlook for the sector.
New international flight routes are set to supercharge Australia's hotel sector, creating demand for potentially 1.9 million room nights annually according to a new CBRE analysis.
CHTA's annual Caribbean Tourism Industry Performance & Outlook Report includes key insights on revenue growth, visitor trends, labor challenges, and investment activity across 20 Caribbean destinations. This data-driven report helps members navigate challenges, identify opportunities, and refine strategies for sustained success in 2025 and beyond.
As the Asia-Pacific (APAC) tourism sector experiences a robust recovery, with many regions reaching pre-pandemic levels in early 2023, hoteliers face a unique opportunity to redefine guest satisfaction and improve financial performance.
The cost of living has sky-rocketed in the UK, with 92% of households reporting a rise in their living costs.
Our research reveals an industry poised for transformation, with 82% of hospitality executives recognizing the game-changing potential of going beyond measuring performance by standard measures such as Revenue per Available Room (RevPAR) alone to effectively measure and optimize Revenue per Available Guest (RevPAG). More importantly, 72% of hospitality executives are willing to invest in enhancing their current technology to tap into this potential. This metric isn't just a number; it's a fundamental reimagining of how we create value andmeasure success in our field.
Slowly Falling Interest Rates Should Boost Investment Activity.
The final quarter of 2023 painted a rosy picture for the DACH hotel sector, with high demand sending revenues 13.7% higher year-on-year compared to a modest 0.3% increase for serviced apartments.
Tripadvisor®, the world's largest travel guidance platform, releases its first Seasonal Travel Index of 2023, providing an outlook for travel patterns and demand over the next three months.
Hotel-generated state and local tax revenue will reach new heights nationally ($46.71 billion) and in states across the nation this year, according to state-by-state projections released today by the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) and Oxford Economics.
The Latino Hotel Association released the 2023 inaugural Latino Hotel and Entrepreneurship Investment (LHEI) Report showcasing data and research detailing Hispanic entrepreneurship, economic and population growth, and specific opportunities and barriers to Latino business ownership within and outside the hospitality industry. The LHEI report advocates for specific policy needs necessary for Latinos to navigate the steps required to own and invest successfully in hotels and demonstrates the importance of Latino ownership to hotel chains seeking franchise owners.
The corona crisis had at least one positive effect on hospitality, which is only slightly proven by hard numbers: Online direct bookings soared up last year. Based on the responses of 96 hotel chains worldwide, representing over 2 million rooms, website bookings increased to 20% of total hotel revenue in 2022, nearly doubling from 2017 levels (10%), when h2c conducted its first Distribution study.
A very warm welcome to this latest edition of the Horwath HTL Poland Hotels and Chains report.
The hotel industry in 2023 is projected to surpass pre-pandemic levels of demand, nominal room revenue and state and local tax revenue, while inching closer to other key 2019 performance metrics, according to the American Hotel & Lodging Association’s 2023 State of the Hotel Industry Report.