Dennis Schaal Archives

Dennis Schaal is Skift’s Founding Editor and Executive Editor. Dennis has been a reporter focusing on online travel and short-term rentals for more than two decades at Skift, Tnooz, USA Today, and Travel Weekly. He is well-known for tough one-on-one interviews on stage at Skift events, including with the CEOs and top execs of Expedia, Uber, Booking Holdings, Priceline, Kayak, Hopper, and more.

Online Travel

Online Travel Has Many Problems, and Everyone’s to Blame

How soon will it be before U.S. regulators take up the issue of the pricing control wielded by the four largest U.S. airlines? On the other hand, the U.S. Department of Justice helped to create this mess.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago

Airlines

6 Great Quotes From Airline Execs on Competing in the Skies

The way United's Rainey talks about unbundling and rebundling products for maximum revenue it seems like an exercise in razzmatazz rather than giving customers something of enhanced value.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago

Online Travel

Interview: Gogobot CEO on the Secret to Travel Startup Survival

Travel startups will never emerge from the startup phase if they can't be creative and figure out a way to scale their businesses and get people to use their websites and apps more than a couple of times per year. Sometimes it means community-building or expanding beyond "travel" into local discovery.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago

SkiftX

Move Over Mama: Millennial Parents Letting Kids Be Vacation Deciders

If former president George Bush thought of himself as "the decider," children, and particularly the offspring of U.S. millennial parents, are increasingly exerting their power in deciding where the family will go for vacation. Travel marketers -- take note.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago

Tourism

Medellin’s Tourism Transformation Looks to Meetings and Conventions

Medellin doesn't have massive casinos or beachfront properties to attract conventioneers but it is a city on the move that is becoming a model and beacon of hope for cities throughout Latin America and developed countries, as well.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago

SkiftX

Priceline Acquires PriceMatch to Improve Hotels’ Backend Technology

The Priceline Group is adding pieces to its new B2B hotel technology division, which it expects will be a substantial business eventually.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago

Online Travel

Priceline CEO Says Mobile Won’t Solve Every Problem

There are really never any absolutes in travel or in life but Priceline Group CEO Darren Huston feels confident that we'll never get to an app-only world. The desktop and mobile Web will live on, at least until Al Gore invents the next big thing.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago

Online Travel

Priceline Vs. Expedia: By the Numbers in First Quarter 2015

Priceline trounced Expedia in hotel room nights booked in the first quarter but Expedia is growing its still-smaller roster of hotels at a faster rate. This should continue to be a very interesting race over the next few years.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago

Online Travel

Priceline Shatters the 100 Million Room Nights Milestone

Booking.com's focus on hotels plus TV and online advertising, which gets more guests into those hotels, is obviously paying off.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago

Online Travel

TripAdvisor Will Fight for Dominance in Restaurant Reservations City By City

Restaurants, attractions and vacation rentals are just 12 percent of TripAdvisor's revenue but that number is going to get a lot bigger in the future.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago