Articles tagged “forecast”

Business Travel

Business Travel Budgets Face ‘New Normal’ With Prices to Climb Through 2025

It turns out that 2019 is no longer a good year to compare prices to. That should be a relief to anyone trying to explain why their travel budget looks so different now.

Business Travel Budgets Face ‘New Normal’ With Prices to Climb Through 2025

Business Travel

Business Travel Bounces Back: Spending Forecast to Hit Record

Business travel is roaring back, with global spending projected to surpass pre-pandemic levels in dollar volume this year. Face-to-face wins.

Business Travel Bounces Back: Spending Forecast to Hit Record

Short-Term Rentals

Short-Term Rentals in 2024: Small Cities, Rural Areas May Soar

After a volatile 2023, next year may see demand and supply back in balance.

Short-Term Rentals in 2024: Small Cities, Rural Areas May Soar

Tourism

Hong Kong Gains as Skift Travel Health Index Dips – Latest Update

Global travel declined from June to July, similar to the downward trend we saw this time last year. Hong Kong was the only country with an uptick in Skift's Travel Health Index.

Hong Kong Gains as Skift Travel Health Index Dips – Latest Update

Hotels

Global Accommodation Revenue in 2022 is 95 Percent of 2019

Americas' share of global accommodation revenue witnessed an increase during the pandemic given its very large domestic travel market. The dynamics are expected to change when travel restrictions in China wane, and its large domestic travel market flourishes again.

Global Accommodation Revenue in 2022 is 95 Percent of 2019

News Blog

3 Questions That Need Answering at This Year’s Global Business Travel Association Convention

This is the main event. Of course the Global Business Travel Association has held previous conferences in San Diego before at the city's waterfront convention center — but never after such a drawn-out downturn. The association did manage to squeeze its annual convention in last year, in Chicago, but mostly minus the European contingent who…

Tourism

Bold and Outrageous Predictions for Travel in 2022

What if? That's always a question we want our reporters and editors to be asking. In this case, we pushed them to take it even further by conjuring up some silly predictions for the new year. What we are really doing here is preparing you for another year of the unexpected. Get ready, Skift readers.

Bold and Outrageous Predictions for Travel in 2022

Online Travel

Airlines Tweak Their Pricing Strategies to Adopt New Ways to Boost Revenue

Airlines need to shift from forecasting models that rely primarily on historical data to ones that analyze real-time demand. That's how Amazon and other e-commerce companies handle pricing. No wonder travel tech players PROS, Amadeus, Sabre, and Flyr spy an opportunity.

Airlines Tweak Their Pricing Strategies to Adopt New Ways to Boost Revenue

Airlines

What 2021 Has In Store for the Travel Industry: New Skift Research

Glad this year is finally over? Us too! In its annual outlook, Skift Research looks forward to the big themes and challenges that are in store for the travel industry as it begins the long uphill climb to recovery next year.

What 2021 Has In Store for the Travel Industry: New Skift Research

Skift Originals

Bold and Outrageous Predictions for the Travel Industry in 2020

One of our goals is to always surprise our readers. So we asked our editors to push the envelope on making predictions for the New Year. They did not disappoint, from Amazon buying Expedia to JetBlue going away. What we are really trying to do here is prepare our readers for more of the unexpected in 2020 — and we'll be there to cover it.

Bold and Outrageous Predictions for the Travel Industry in 2020