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The Skift Travel Podcast — 325 episodes
We Graded Our Biggest 2026 Travel Megatrends
The New Economics of Travel: Fewer Tourists, More Money
AI, Visa, and the New Battle for Travel Customers
Are Hotel Brands Worth It Anymore?
The World Cup's Most Unexpected Winner: America
$3.4 Billion Is Pouring Into Travel Startups. Here's Why.
Hotels Tried to Cut Out Expedia. Here's What Happened.
Travel’s AI Problem Is Bigger Than Most Companies Realize
Airbnb Is Becoming a Real OTA
America’s Travel Problem Is Getting Worse
Trump's Tourism Envoy: Inside Nick Adams' Plan to Sell America
Spirit Airlines Collapsed. What Happens to Budget Travel Now?
The Fight for Control of Online Travel Has Started
How TV and AI Are Reshaping Travel Demand
The Crisis Crushing America’s Hotel Owners
Why Flights Stay Cheap While Travel Costs Rise
What’s Really Changing Inside the Airline Industry
3-Hour Airport Lines and a System Under Pressure
The Iran War Broke More Than the Middle East
Oil Hit $100. What Happens to Travel Now?
War, Airspace, and Oil: The Risks Facing Travel Right Now
The Hidden Risks Hotel Owners Never Planned For
Marriott Is Worried About AI. Should They Be?
Ozempic, Travel, and the End of the Old Vacation Model
Why Travel Companies Are Staying Silent on Politics
Airbnb, OTAs, and the Fight for Control of Travel
New from Skift: Executive Conversations Shaping the Travel Industry
What Happens When Convenience Beats Brand in Travel?
Is Travel Headed for Another Shock in 2026?
Skift Megatrends 2026: What’s Next for Travel, Loyalty, and Luxury
How Pyramid Global Is Rethinking Hotel Management
Inside Soul Community Planet, the Hotel Brand Betting on Conscious Travel
Inside Saudi’s Big Tourism Bet and Google’s Booking Disruption
Why Low Cost Airlines Win in Europe but Struggle in the U.S.
New York's New Mayor Zohran Mamdani & The Eastward Shift in Travel
Flying Cars, Privatized Airports, and the Future of U.S. Aviation
Can the U.S.-Europe Travel Corridor Recover?
Glenn Fogel on Booking.com’s AI Strategy, Connected Trip Vision, and the Future of Travel
Skift Sessions Episode featuring Brian Chesky, CEO & Founder of Airbnb
Rethinking Cruising for the Modern Traveler - Anna Nash, President of Explora Journeys
Airbnb’s Hotel Push, Expedia’s AI Strategy, and Lessons From Skift Global Forum
Hilton CEO Chris Nassetta on Leadership, Culture, and 18 Years of Growth
How AI, OTAs, and Shifting Consumer Behavior Are Reshaping the Industry
The FIFA World Cup: Tourism, Strategy, and the $3.3B Opportunity
Inside Agoda’s AI Bet: Building Silicon Valley in Bangkok
New York to London in 3 Hours? Boom Supersonic’s CEO Is Betting on 2029
Brookfield’s Global Bet on Hospitality’s Future
Good Morning Hospitality: Marriott Flat, Inclusive Hiring & TSA Shake-Ups
Building Humanity into Hospitality Management with Valor’s Global CEO
Slick Talk: Beyond the Eight Hours & Hospitality’s Next Chapter
From Local Roots to Global Reach: Asia’s Hospitality Growth Strategy
Suite Success: Why Every City is a Food City, According to Top Chef’s Gail Simmons
Good Morning Hospitality: Predictions for Travel, Tech, and Guest Experience
Blending Hotels and Rentals: Dart’s Bet for Group Travel at Scale
Airbnb’s Expansion Strategy: How Services and Experiences Are Changing the Trip
Simplicity in Loyalty: The Way Out For Indie Hotels
Why This Summer Is Breaking Flight Crews and the System
Why the AI Revolution in Travel Depends on Payment Infrastructure
Welcome to Extreme Heat Summer Travel
Rafat Ali x Bhanu Chopra: On Building from India for the World
How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Business Travel
AI and the Future of Travel Startup Investment
What Travel Startup Investors Are Looking for Now
Tripadvisor Is Turning 25. Here’s What Its CEO Says About Its Future
The Private Sector’s Role in Saudi’s Travel Ambitions
The New Era of Solo Women Travelers
What’s Next for Short-Term Rentals: Regulations, Airbnb, AI and More
Rewiring Hotel Tech for Humans
French-Waiter Engineers? Inside Palantir’s Opinionated Approach to Travel Tech
Marriott CEO on Next-Gen Loyalty and Market Volatility
The Brand That Set The Standard for Lifestyle Hotels
AlUla and the New 7,000-Year-Old Tourist Destination
Southeast Asia's Tourism Recovery: A Deep Dive
Minor Hotels and Strategizing for Film Tourism Success
White Lotus, Artificial Intelligence and the New Business of Luxury Travel
Borders, Bans, and Bookings: Navigating U.S. Travel Right Now
The Next Generation of Golden Visas
Unlocking the Secrets of Travel Rewards and Loyalty
Bollywood: The Strongest Currency in Indian Tourism
The TikTok Travel Discovery Engine
Tourism Australia's $230 Billion by 2030 Goal
How AI Will Transform Travel Search
TikTok, Instagram and Travel Influencers with Beautiful Destinations’ Jeremy Jauncey
From JetBlue to Breeze: David Neeleman’s Aviation Vision
Kayak CEO on This Year’s Travel Megatrends
2025 Travel Outlook: Steady Growth, Consumer Optimism and Industry Shifts
How I Travel: Rafat Ali Featuring Sarah Kopit
How I Travel: Rafat Ali Featuring Jason Clampet
EHow I Travel: Rafat Ali Featuring Colin Nagy
From Pets to Psychedelics: Unpacking 2025 Travel Megatrends
The New Rules of Frequent Flying: How Loyalty Programs Are Being Redefined
Battle for Bookings: How Hotels and OTAs Compete for Clicks
The TSA's New Advice for Holiday Travel
What's Next for Airbnb
Labor in the Air: A Conversation With the President of the Association of Flight Attendants
A Ticket to Space is Tourism's Final Frontier
Premium Has a Moment While Airlines Quiet Quit China
Are We There Yet?: The Arrival of the Family Travel Boom
How the United Arab Emirates is Building Its Very Own Las Vegas
What the Election and Today's Politics Mean for The Business of Travel
Big Impact Conversations from Skift Global Forum 2024
Expedia CEO at Skift Global Forum 2024
The Most Powerful People in Travel
Travel's Great Renewal (and Reckoning)
The State of Travel 2024: Aviation
The State of Travel 2024: Hotels and Online Travel
How to Become a Travel Industry CEO
What's Going on With the Economy?
Sports Tourism and "Harvesting the Afterglow" of the Olympics
Accor CEO for Europe on the Transformative Effect of the Paris Olympics
The Skift Take: Barcelona, Water Guns & Overtourism
Air France KLM CEO Ben Smith Talks to Us as Paris Prepares to Host the Olympics
Venture Capital Investment in 2024
Summer's Hottest Short-Term Rental Markets
Trends in Ultra High Net Worth Travel
Where Are the Women in Aviation?
What the Heck is Regenerative Tourism, Anyway?
What Data, AI, and Short-Term Rental Leaders Told Us This Week
How Ozempic and GLP-1s Are Changing the Business of Travel
Is Google Killing Online Travel?
Business and International Travel Drove Earnings This Quarter
The State of Conferences
Airbnb’s Icons: Gimmick or Marketing Genius?
The Awakening of Sleep Tourism
Airbnb's Megawatt Payday and Should Billionaires Exist?
Meet Skift and Your New Co-Hosts
Loyalty and Short-Term Rentals: What Are The Opportunities Ahead?
Oberoi CEO on Redefining Luxury for the Affluent Consumer
US Ambassador to India on Bridging the U.S. and India in the Decade Ahead
How Air India's CEO Plans to Connect India to the World
Is India Safe for Female Travelers?
Megatrends 2024: Robots and The Loneliness Crisis
Reaching the Emerging Traveler
Megatrends 2024: Artificial Intelligence, the Ozempic Era and Extreme Wellness
Megatrends 2024: How India and the Middle East Will Define Travel in 2024
Megatrends 2024: Junk Fees, Supply Chains and Climate Change
Megatrends 2024: How Hotels Will Seduce the Middle Class Traveler
Analyzing China’s Travel Reopening, Exactly A Year In
Connection in the Age of AI with Google Head of Travel Sales
Inspiring Innovation in Hospitality with Kerzner CEO Philippe Zuber
Bringing Travel into the Future at Skift Global Forum East
A Global Outlook for the Year Ahead at Skift Global Forum East
Tourism’s Growth in the Middle East
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on Super Apps, AI and Uber Teens
Choice’s Hostile Takeover Bid for Wyndham Explained
Skift Ideas Podcast: The Power of Opportunity in Hospitality, with Harsha L’acqua
Travel's Future as AI Reshapes The World
What's Going On at Skift Global Forum 2023?
New York City Crackdown: What's Next for Short-Term Rentals
What the Hopin Fire Sale Tells Us About Events After the Pandemic Era
The Remarkable Recovery of the Travel Industry
Predictions from the Legends of Online Travel
What the Expedia-Hopper Split Means for Online Travel
U.S. Cities Fight to Win Back Tourists
What's in Store for Hotel Tech and Innovation
Remote Company Retreats and the Business of Team Travel
The Future of Short-Term Rentals: Industry Leaders Look Ahead at Skift Summit
New Podcast From Skift: Innovation and Creativity in Travel
Where Smart Hospitality Companies Are Investing in 2023
Surviving As a Travel Startup in An Age of AI
Rethinking Overtourism in the Post-Covid Era
The Environment for Travel Startup Funding and M&A
Busting Myths About Deglobalization and What It Means For Travel
Hotel Earnings Season Wrap-Up and 2023 Outlook
The Big Issues Facing the Hotel Industry in 2023
India's Potential as the Tourism Success Story of the Next 40 Years
Southwest’s Terrible Holiday Fail
Why Marriott CEO Anthony Capuano Is Optimistic About 2023
Hilton CEO's Outlook for 2023
Generative AI and the Future of Travel
Expedia's CEO on the Great Opportunities in Travel
IHG Hotels CEO on Scale and Strategy
American Airlines CEO on the New Flying Normal
Balancing the Future With JetBlue's COO Joanna Geraghty
What Tech Layoffs Mean for Travel Brands
Google's Plans for the Future of Travel
Navigating Leadership, Community, and the Road Ahead With Waze CEO Nema Parikh
What’s Next for Disney Parks
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky: Reimagining Travel’s Future
What's Next for Travel with Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel
Why Sustainable Tourism Is Good for Business
Sustainability Isn't Easy With Intrepid Travel's Darrell Wade
How Hotels and Short-Term Rentals Fit Together
What’s Next for Tour Operators?
Sonder’s Secret Tech Sauce to Sell More Rooms
How Shifts in Lifestyle and Work Will Reshape Hotels and Vacation Rentals
The Definitive History of Short-Term Rentals
The Evolution of Airline Loyalty With Delta Air Lines' Loyalty VP
How Hotels Use Loyalty to Compete
Why You Can’t Miss the Skift Future of Lodging Forum
The Hotel Innovations Guests Really Want With citizenM CEO Klaas van Lookeren Campagne
Skift Daily Briefing: Wyndham’s New Budget Extended Stay Brand
What Happened When the World Stopped Traveling
What’s Changed for Hotels With Hilton CEO Chris Nassetta
Measuring Airbnb and Booking’s Profit Momentum
Travel’s Fallout from Russia-Ukraine War: Connecting the Dots
The Connected Trip Travelers Need With Booking CEO Glenn Fogel
The New Demand for Travel With Air France-KLM CEO Benjamin Smith
Viator Spinoff Pros and Cons
Hotels as Lifestyle Brands With Accor CEO Sebastien Bazin
Focus on the Travel Consumer With Expedia CEO Peter Kern
Travel’s Fascinating Future With Trivago CEO Axel Hefer
Travel Uncertainty in 2022 With KAKAK CEO Steve Hafner
Search and Sustainable Travel With Google Travel‘s MD Richard Holden
Bringing Everything to You With Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi
Bonus Episode: Skift Daily Briefing for Jan. 6, 2022
The Travel Industry’s 6 Under-Appreciated Storylines
Another Year of Recovery and Optimism With Southwest CEO Robert Jordan
Online Travel Agency Factboook: The Top 11 Global Booking Sites
Privacy and Frictionless Travel With CLEAR CEO
What Happens To Travel Now? With Skift CEO Rafat Ali
Creating a Google-Crushing Superapp With Hopper CEO Frederic Lalonde
A New Age of Mobility with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky
Virtual Meetings And Business Travel With American Airlines CEO Doug Parker
Growing While Going Net Zero With Marriott CEO Anthony Capuano
Winning Customers On Quality With United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby
What Happens When Big Events Return?
Where Do Short-Term Rentals Go From Here?
Bonus Episode: The Future of the Event Industry
Skift Forum Sessions: Marriott Group President Stephanie Linnartz
Skift Forum Sessions: IAC/Expedia Group Chairman Barry Diller
Skift Daily Briefing for January 12, 2021
Regulating the Short-Term Rental Economy
Airbnb's IPO: What It Means at Skift
How Diversity Fuels Creativity: Lessons for the Next Era of Travel Brands
Travel Industry Outlook: Post-U.S. Election and Post-Vaccine
Tripadvisor CEO on Selling Just The Right Tours And Activities
How Travel Metasearch Survives a Pandemic (With Kayak CEO Steve Hafner)
Consumer Spending Is Changing Travel Loyalty (With TPG's Brian Kelly)
Skift Daily Briefing, June 24, 2020
Oyo and the Future of Hospitality After the Crisis
Hotels and the Coronavirus
Skift Daily Briefing May 15, 2020
The State of Short-Term Rentals
Skift Daily Briefing May 5, 2020
Bonus Episode: Skift Daily Briefing 03/30/20
Bonus Episode: Skift Daily Briefing 12/10/19
Bonus Episode: Skift Daily Briefing 11/7/19
Why Travel Should Be Optimistic About 2019
Megatrends Defining Travel in 2019
The Next Big Challenges for Low-Cost Airlines
Travel's Tough Truths and Inspirations
The Amazon Factor in Travel
Why Marriott Is So Attached To Its 30 Brands
How European Tourism Came Back From the Brink
Why Accor Had No Choice But To Change
Travel Brands Want to Be Experience Platforms
Bonus Analyst Sessions: Exploring the Vacation Rental Tech Stack
The Airbnb Threat
Bonus Analyst Sessions: Hotel Owner Operating and Branding Strategies
Bonus Analyst Sessions: Venture Investment Trends In Travel
Megatrends Defining Travel in 2018
Bonus Analyst Sessions: 2018 Global Travel Market Outlook
Finding Solutions for the Overtourism Dilemma
Bonus Analyst Sessions: Outlook On Hotel Direct Booking 2017
Bonus Analyst Sessions: Ctrip and the China Online Travel Market
How London is Powering a Travel Startup Cluster
What to Expect From the New Expedia
What Next-Level Hotels Have in Common
Bonus Analyst Sessions: The State of Destination Marketing in 2017
InterContinental Hotels Group CEO on Customers Who Want It All
Travel Search, Bargain Hunting and the Future of Booking
Norwegian Air CEO on Flying Cheap and Long-Haul
Global Tourism in a Time of Volatility
What Hotels Are Doing to Win Your Loyalty
Why Flights Are So Cheap (And You Might Hate Yours)
What Cruise Lines Are Doing to Win a New Generation of Cruisers
How New York City Tourism Changes the City
Bonus Analyst Sessions: Consolidation and Tech in the Vacation Rentals Industry
The Evolution of Accessible Travel
Megatrends Defining Travel in 2017
How Where-to-Go Lists Get Made
How Travel Companies Can Win the Hearts of Supertravelers
SXSW and Superfly Pros on Making Events Better
Google Travel VP on the Power of Virtual and Augmented Reality
Booking.com CEO on Taking a Mobile-First Approach
Lola CEO on Why Messaging Matters
TripAdvisor CEO on Setting Realistic Expectations
SilverRail CEO on Tackling Trains
Frits van Paasschen on Being Your Own Disruptor
Bonus Analyst Sessions: Google’s Reach and Impact on Travel
What's Next for Choice and Loyalty in Air Travel
Club Med President on the Future of All-Inclusive
Carnival CEO on Exceeding Expectations
The Evolution of Tours and Activities
What Airbnb and Hotels Should Learn from Each Other
The Serious Business of Modern Theme Parks
Iceland and the Perils of Overtourism
What Online Travel Legends Say About the Future of Travel
Black Travel Has Become a Movement
How Hostels Are Trying to Move Beyond the Backpacker
Puerto Rico and the Fight for Caribbean Tourism
Why Business Owners Struggle to Take Time Off
Top Hotel CEOs and Executives Talk Direct Booking, Airbnb and Cuba
What Happens When Travel Meets Politics and Global Unrest
Understanding the Business of Modern Budget Travel
What Keeps Travel CMOs up at Night
The Invention of Online Travel, and How it Changed The Future Of Travel Forever
Why New York's High Line Became the Attraction Smart Cities Want
The Relevance of Travel Media in an Age of Media Abundance
Busting The Myths Of Bad Travel Advice
What Do The World’s Wealthiest Travelers Want?
When Everything Is An Adventure, What Happens to Adventure Travel?
Do Tourism Slogans Matter In Modern Marketing?
Are You Ready for the Next Wave of Chinese Travelers?
How Business Travel Is Trying to Become More Traveler-Friendly
Creating a Better City With Bike Shares And Smart Payments
Creating a Smarter City for Tourists and Locals, Part 1
Where Family Travel Is Headed in 2016
U.S. Workers and Their No-Vacation Nation
Selling Travel in Times of Crisis
Reinventing Travel Brands Through Modern Content Marketing
State of Travel Startups and Venture Capital in 2016
The Past And Future of Local Discovery
The Changing Trends in Health and Wellness Travel
Discussing the Megatrends Affecting Travel in 2016
The Changing Landscape of Travel Video
How Modern Luggage Got Smarter and Better Looking
How In-Room Tech Is Changing Everything About Hotel Guest Experience
The Rise of Lifestyle Hotels And The Culture Driving Them
How Bikes Are Changing The Way We Experience Cities
The Renegade Tours Disrupting City Visits For Tourists & Locals
Travel PR, The Invisible Engine Fueling Your Travel Inspiration
How Culinary Obsessions Are Changing the Way We Travel
The Appeal of Mass Tourism in the Age of Authentic Travel