Travel CEOs Want a Frictionless Future — Skift Corporate Travel Innovation Report
Photo Credit: IHG CEO Keith Barr speaks at Skift Global Forum last month. He and other executives spoke about ways the industry is evolving to remove friction from the travel experience. Skift
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Executives from all corners of the travel industry spoke to Skift about how their companies are innovating; this week, we boil down some of the trends most relevant to corporate travel.
The Skift Corporate Travel Innovation Report is our weekly newsletter focused on the future of corporate travel, the big fault lines of disruption for travel managers and buyers, the innovations emerging from the sector, and the changing business traveler habits that are upending how corporate travel is packaged, bought, and sold.
We're one week past this year's Skift Global Forum and still processing all the insight we heard from some of the top hotel, airline, booking site, and other travel executives who took the stage.
From Delta CEO Ed Bastian discussing the introduction of free texting on most flights to the CEOs of Priceline and Expedia musing about blockchain, the conversations covered a lot of ground.
Executives spoke of the promise of artificial intelligence — as well as its current shortfalls — and the struggle to best use all the data that companies are able to connect.
In addition to revealing a plan for a "hostel on steroids" (fascinating!), Hilton Wor
