Skift Global Forum Preview: Global Strategist Parag Khanna Spots the Forces Uprooting Travel
Photo Credit: A terminal at Beijing's main international airport in 2019. Flickr / Creative Commons / Dion Hinchcliffe
Skift Take
It's hip now to be bearish on international travel's long-term trajectory. But Parag Khanna has fascinating insights into why the travel industry is central to a new, more mobile phase of history.
How we live and work morphed in the pandemic. In the future, migrations will scatter both the dispossessed and the well-off. How can travel become a geopolitical force for good in our world increasingly on the move?
Parag Khanna, an author and a geopolitical scientist, gave a lot of thought to this topic when writing his latest book, Move — which examines the forces uprooting the world.
We spoke with Khanna about what the travel sector needs to know about the coming upheaval in mobility. The chat was prelude to his interview with Skift CEO Rafat Ali at Skift Global Forum on September 21 at the TWA Hotel in New York City.
We've lightly edited the conversation for clarity.
Skift: Your upcoming book Move (on sale October 5th in the U.S.) provides an illuminating and authoritative vision of the future. What do decision-makers in the travel industry need to know?
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