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

Google and Microsoft Team Up Against Hotel Industry on Wi-Fi Jamming

Google and Microsoft are teaming up against Marriott, Hilton and the rest of the hotel industry over travelers' rights to independent Wi-Fi access when they stay at or visit a hotel.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago

Announcements

Interview: Rocketrip CEO on What Business Travelers Really Desire

Rocketrip CEO Dan Ruch makes a good point: Some corporations and travel management companies were once bitterly opposed to the idea of their employees booking a low cost carrier. In a similar way, road warriors are pushing their companies into the new world order.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago

Online Travel

Travel App Breadtrip Secures $50 Million in Funding

We've yet to see a content-sharing travel app catch on with consumers, no matter how much money has been poured into it.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago

Online Travel

Booking.com Paid Refunds to 10,000 Fraud Victims

Hacking incidents and phishing scams inside and outside of the travel industry are taking their toll, putting a huge strain on customer confidence.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago

Online Travel

What Travel’s Top CEOs Have to Say About Consumers’ Mobile Habits

In the near future, travelers won't be all thumbs when trying to get things done on their mobile devices. Help is on the way.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago

Online Travel

Interview: Dohop CEO on Building a Global Metasearch Site Based in Iceland

Dohop is carefully picking its spots: Going all in on the B2B side of the business, targeting the Middle East, and working with low cost carriers on in-app flight bookings. All of that focus and contrarian thinking could work in its favor, although competing against much larger competitors could be as difficult as scaling an Icelandic glacier.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago

Media and PR

TripAdvisor Targets Brazil in Its First Latin American TV Advertising

TripAdvisor has worked out some of the kinks in its earlier TV ad campaigns and now is setting its sights on additional advertising in the U.S., France and Australia, and new ads in Brazil and the UK. Big potential market, Brazil.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago

Online Travel

The Online Travel Booking Game in Europe Is About to Get Really Interesting

Greed may or may not be good, but in travel metasearch complexity is good. New rules in Europe may make searching for a hotel room online all the more difficult.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago

Tourism

What President Obama’s Cuba Speech Revealed About Travel and Diplomatic Relations

Like Obama said, the U.S. has diplomatic relations with China and Vietnam, so turning a deaf ear to Cuba and Cubans made no sense. U.S. travel companies are chomping at the bit to get into Cuba.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago

Tourism

Updated: U.S. Eases Cuba Travel Ban as Countries Normalize Relations

Lifting the travel ban to Cuba is totally sensible and necessary for U.S. travelers, although President Obama will ignite a new firestorm if he takes steps to ease the decades-old embargo.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago