Travel Needs to Get Ahead of the ‘Great Migration’: Strategist Parag Khanna
Photo Credit: Skift Global Forum 2021 kicks off with Parag Khanna on the future of human mobility. Skift / Matt Matieiscu
Skift Take
The media may be spinning a tale of increased nationalism, but that's not what's actually happening. The travel industry's focus must stay on the world's shifting human mobility patterns where it can play a huge role and reap the benefits.
Multiple forces, from economic to remote work, climate and migration, are hitting the world at once and affecting as well as shifting human mobility patterns, causing people to change their locations or become mobile — it’s the “great migration” ahead and that’s exactly where the travel industry can play a huge role by anticipating and preparing for those changes.
That’s the crux of the message author and geopolitical scientist Parag Khanna shared on the opening night of Skift Global Forum in New York City on Tuesday, in a one-on-one discussion with Skift co-founder and CEO Rafat Ali on “how travel can adapt in the decade ahead.”
“We want to get ahead of those trends and enable that movement,” Khanna told Ali, noting that what lies ahead is the “great migration.”
The remote worker visa shift alone is indicative
