Articles tagged “online travel agencies”

Virtually all industries have seen a rise in contactless payments due to new health and safety measures around Covid-19. For travel suppliers, supporting personalized touch-free payment experiences has increasingly become a benchmark for success.

In coronavirus-related stories this week, Skift covered actor Will Smith's favorite business travel startup, major airlines eliminating change fees, the seeming end of the ex-pat lifestyle, and how Sonesta took advantage of an IHG default.

In March 2020, Covid-19 became the biggest disruptor in modern travel. Now, six months on, international borders are slowly starting to reopen, and travelers are eager to return to some normality. This guide presents new research-based perspectives on what it’ll take to get the world moving again.

Executives are fine-tuning their strategy by pushing more into business travel management, tours-and-activities sales, and international bus booking.

Tripadvisor has no easy path to better growth rates and profit. But in good news, consumers are returning to its brands to plan trips, and revenue will likely follow over time.

A hotel price war hasn't materialized as some dreaded. Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel sees an opportunity to prove the value of his brands as a source of demand for hotels and managers of alternative accommodations.

In coronavirus-related travel stories this week, Skift covered how the end of a $600 supplemental unemployment check impacts out-of-work travel employees, Disney Parks' lost year, the prospect of an IHG default, and how Vrbo addressed its Google problem.

Living with haphazard spikes in travel bookings is the new abnormal. Few brands are ready. But those that are prepped will take market share.

We may have asked our reporters and editors to do the impossible task for this year's Skift anniversary. Tell us what travel will look like when we celebrate our 9th year in 2021. What you will read, of course, is the most accurate snapshot yet of where we could be next year.

Trivago was glad to see that Booking Holdings kept on advertising, however modestly, and upped its bidding in Trivago auctions while many other partners went silent. If Booking is gaining a bit of market share, it is far from seeing a clear path to recovery as travel demand's trajectory remains a crapshoot.