Skift Take
Humanity is our focal point for 2017. As much as we love travel tech, which is crucial to the industry's evolution, human beings will have to remain front-and-center as well.
For a recent episode of the Skift Podcast, we examined our biggest annual editorial effort: Megatrends. In this project, we explored the most crucial concepts affecting the global travel industry in 2017. Read the full Megatrends magazine here.
The audio for this podcast episode came from this year’s Megatrends event, held in January at a WeWork space in Manhattan, with about 200 people in attendance.
Skift founder and CEO Rafat Ali and co-founder and editor-in-chief Jason Clampet delved into nine of our 15 megatrends and touched on topics including: how low-cost airlines are changing the transatlantic game, the festivalization of meetings and events, the return of humanity to travel, the rise of lean luxury, and tours and activities coming into their own.
Our Megatrends 2017 sponsors were MasterCard, UrLife, Smartling, Allianz, American Express, Four Seasons, and Hostelworld.
Here are five takeaways fr
