Travel Megatrends 2017: Humanity Returns to Travel


Skift Take

Hospitality is all about the very human trait of empathy. And businesses need to remember that humans should remain front and center to create incredible experiences, helped — but in no way supplanted — by modern technology.

[caption id="attachment_212320" align="alignright" width="240"] Download your copy of Skift Megatrends 2017[/caption] Yesterday we released our annual travel industry trends forecast, Skift Megatrends 2017. You can read about each of the trends on Skift, or download a copy of our magazine here. Download Your Copy of Skift Megatrends 2017 This Megatrend is brought to you in partnership with UrLife.  Back in early 2014, Skift came out with a new report and framework for looking at the digitally adept traveler, what we called "The Rise of the Silent Traveler." This is how we described it: "The rise of digital has given rise to a new kind of traveler adept at all available online and mobile tools, and uses them to jump across all industry-defined silos. These new travelers don't need tons of handholding, they shun human interacti