Articles tagged “skift global forum”

Young people aren’t one monolithic group: an 18-year-old is very different from a 34-year-old. The travel industry needs to act smarter and start thinking in subsets.

The "train guy" has a lot to say about why rail travel is still hard to book — and how that might start getting easier.

New York has nearly always been a hot tourist destination. Sometimes we forget that in large part, the film industry created the dreamy, thrilling, magnetic New York of our travel fantasies.

With its brands that offer escorted tours, The Travel Corporation is finding that it needs to offer the assurance of a guide as well as personalized touches so trips don't feel mass-produced.

What can Airbnb learn from hotels and what can hotels learn from Airbnb? Watch this video to find out.

Frits van Paasschen brings great perspective to the biggest hotel story of the year and offers a smart take on the puzzles that the travel industry still needs to solve.

The executives behind the success of SXSW and Bonnaroo say they're developing more varied event programming bringing together as many creative elements as possible, so brands have more opportunities to engage attendees at different levels throughout the event experience.

There's a lot of wisdom in this video. Find out why Lola CEO Paul English believes travel startups should get as close as possible to the booking instead of going out and trying to create what he calls the "blah blah blah of travel."

How does a decades-old brand transform itself? Listen to this bonus episode for some insight from Club Med's president.

Rail and local connections usually get the short shrift in discussions of travel. Unless you're talking to SilverRail's Gowell, that is.