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Tourism
Today's edition of Skift's daily podcast looks closer at tourism boards on Threads, the cost of summer vacation, and Marriott’s bet on MGM.
Rashaad Jorden | 4 months ago
Destination marketing organizations are gaining followers fast. Now, they have to figure out what actual value Threads can bring to their marketing.
Dawit Habtemariam | 4 months ago
News Blog
Blaming Twitter for changing its terms and conditions, Air France said on Friday it would stop offering customer support via the social media platform's direct messages for its accounts worldwide. KLM, a sister brand, has yet to make a similar move. Update: 4pm ET: An Air France spokesperson clarified, "Twitter's recent change in access to…
Sean O'Neill | 7 months ago
Coronavirus
Today’s edition of Skift’s daily podcast looks at travel’s recovery path, Twitter’s increasing irrelevance for tourism, and Banff’s overtourism battles.
Rashaad Jorden | 10 months ago
Though useless for driving visitation, Twitter still serves a purpose as a tool to help tourism agencies support conference and community engagement.
Dawit Habtemariam | 10 months ago
Airlines
Robert Isom believes the worst is behind American Airlines, and the airline's operations are running as smoothly as they can be. In this interview, the CEO reveals the bigger things on his mind as he maps out American's longer term future.
Matthew Parsons | 1 year ago
Hotels
Today’s edition of Skift’s daily podcast looks at Marriott’s new apartment offering, turning pools into profitability, and what tech layoffs mean for travel brands.
Rashaad Jorden | 1 year ago
Online Travel
The job losses at big tech brands including Facebook and Twitter present a big challenge for those companies and the talent they've lost. But the travel industry dealt with much of this in 2020. What's next?
Jason Clampet | 1 year ago
"Google will kill Airbnb," tweeted Nick Huber, who writes about business and real estate, owns a self-storage company, and has 247,000 followers on Twitter. Two people independently messaged me about the tweet, which has generated a few thousand "likes," and hundreds of retweets since Sunday. One Skift colleague said of the tweet: "Everything this guy…
Dennis Schaal | 1 year ago
Business Travel
This year started with a bang for mergers and acquisitions, so naturally there'll be questions about whether they end up stifling competition.
Matthew Parsons, Skift | 2 years ago