Soaring hotel prices, crackdown on illegal renting to hit Paris 2024 experience
Visitors heading to Paris for next year's Olympics face major accommodation problems amid soaring hotel prices and a crackdown on rentals of tourist apartments.
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Exclusive interview with Chris Newman, Executive Director, NEOM Hotel Development
The world is changing fast, and moving into a new era of hospitality. NEOM will move at the same pace with its hotel developments. This will enable NEOM lead the way in business innovation, enhanced livability, and environmental sustainability.
Biden admin to China: Hands off our tech but we’ll take your tourists
The Biden administration has a message for Chinese tourists: Please come back. Even as as anti-China rhetoric ratchets up in the U.S., and Washington and Beijing butt heads on everything from trade restrictions to relations with Taiwan, the U.S. is laboring to lure back travelers and students from China after a precipitous drop since the Covid-19 pandemic.
Digital Travel Sales Forecast To Surpass $300B In 2024, Search A Major Ad Contributor
The travel sector leads the charge in digital advertising expenditure, influenced by robust consumer spending patterns.
The New Business Traveler: Marriott's Tina Edmundson Is Always Taking Notes on Hotel Rooms
For Tina Edmundson, traveling for work is her bread and butter. As president of Luxury at Marriott International—a role in which she oversees Marriott's complete portfolio of luxury brands, including Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis Hotels & Resorts, EDITION, The Luxury Collection, and many more—she typically takes over 15 business trips a year, hopping between continents to meet with her teams on the ground, experience newly opened hotels first hand, and check out the competition. (Her next stop? China.)
Expedia and Booking Test the Limits of AI Technology
The chief executives of the U.S.'s leading travel companies, Booking Holdings and Expedia Group, are optimistic about the prospects of generative AI. However, they emphasize that this emerging technology requires further fine-tuning.
Why this viral photo of the world’s largest cruise ship is polarizing opinion
The world’s largest cruise ship hasn’t welcomed a single passenger aboard yet, but it’s already set the internet on fire.
How Online Travel Agencies Plan To Win And Retain Customers
The travel market in the United States continued its stellar recovery in 2022, with a total gross bookings increase of 51% over the prior year. Online travel agencies comprised just over one-fifth of the total U.S. market during this period, according to new Phocuswright research included in its U.S. Online Travel Agency Market Report 2022-2026.
IHG’s New CEO on Launching a New Brand and Making Hotels Profitable
IHG Hotels & Resorts‘ new CEO Elie Maalouf said his strategy is to make the company’s portfolio as appealing to owners and guests as possible. Maalouf spoke to Skift on Tuesday after his first earnings call as CEO, having taken the helm last month.
Growing Loyalty Programs Mean More Travelers Competing for Perks
Loyalty programs are everywhere, from coffee shops and local businesses to the major airline frequent flyer and hotel programs. In all, 89% of U.S. consumers were enrolled in at least one loyalty program as of 2020, according to a 2022 study.
Fake reviews: can we trust what we read online as use of AI explodes?
The four-star hotel in Kraków in Poland, the review says, is “excellent”, a “short walk from the main square” and boasts a “first-rate” spa and fitness centre. A less positive review describes it as “small, cramped and outdated” with “lumpy” pillows. But then a family who stayed said they were made to feel “instantly welcome”.
Hotel Experts Say AI Will Make Room Pricing More Profitable
Hotel companies hope artificial intelligence (AI) will improve their skill at pricing rooms. Known as revenue management, the field relies on forecasting and is ripe for disruption.
Philoxenia: The Ancient Roots of Greek Hospitality
The Greek word Philoxenia, literally translated as a “friend to a stranger,” is widely perceived to be synonymous to hospitality.
‘Everybody loves Americans’: Why US tourists are a hot commodity
Justin Albertynas, a travel industry expert based in Vilnius, Lithuania, has some good news for US travelers who might be a bit self-conscious about the “ugly American” stereotype.
Here's How Travel Will Look In The Internet Of The Future
The future internet will provide us the opportunity to travel in a whole new way, whether that's through fully-immersive virtual travel experiences or by supplementing our real-world travel experiences with cutting-edge technologies.
Booking’s Very Expensive Marketing Piece of the Pie
Online travel is a weird industry when it comes to its outsized marketing spend as compared with other types of businesses.
Expedia poised to take flight with generative AI
Artificial intelligence is poised to disrupt the travel industry, and Expedia CTO Rathi Murthy, who oversees a massive online travel network with 168 million loyalty members and more than 50,000 business partners, believes her company is well positioned to capitalize.
Hotel Expert: Stop Blindly Chasing Demand and Focus on Profit
Since 2016, I’ve considered Cindy Estis Green to be one of the brightest minds in the hotel sector. Her key insight is that hotel commercial strategy directors have to become more sophisticated about which customers will be the most profitable after accounting for all costs.
How ‘White Lotus’ and Other TV Shows Are Helping Millennials and Gen Z Choose Their Next Vacation
While White Lotus viewers might enjoy watching well-heeled characters jet off to idyllic locales, some fans are taking their wanderlust a step further and booking getaways featured in their latest binge.
Hilton's TikTok Ad Changed the Social Marketing Game for Good
In February, Hilton Hotels & Resorts released a 10-minute TikTok video—yes, you read that correctly—that took viewers on a sprawling journey, spanning dozens of locations and multiple genres, featuring appearances from more than half a dozen beloved TikTok creators.