Announcements

Starwood enters a period of uncertainty as the braintrust tries to figure out a way for the chain to get its mojo back. Is Starwood too big to merge with another global chain? We'll see.

The Ryanair and Spirit-ification of flying is almost complete.

Travel builds businesses, helps in trade and capital investment, creates jobs and entrepreneurialism for the workforce, and helps protect heritage and cultural values, at least in theory. The WTTC data behind this shows how large the global travel industry really is.

Released April 2015: Welcome to the Europe installment of Skift’s annual State of Travel report, a series focusing on individual major global industry regions.

We are entering a new mobility era with new players emerging and disrupting travel from the “last mile” up to domestic and regional travel. Mobility providers and aggregators are starting to disrupt the industry by conquering cities, one by one, and aggregating all mode of transportations using digital platforms.