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We don’t believe that talent is a topic that should be confined to meetings with HR or recruiters. We believe that talent is a board-level conversation and deserves to be treated as such. Hiring, training, and retaining top talent should be a core focus of every travel leader, everywhere. ​

Despite strong demand and hiring momentum, travel is stuck in a cycle of churn — with pay gaps, skills shortages, and weak career pathways making talent the sector’s biggest growth challenge.

If online travel agencies want to go to where people are booking travel, they are going to have to make the B2B game an integral part of their businesses. Otherwise, they'll be handing those potential customers to competitors.

The loss of Sabre’s standalone sustainability team raises questions about how it will manage climate commitments going forward.

MSC Cruises’ newest ship brings its latest sustainability technologies to the U.S. market. Multi-fuel design, shore power, and advanced water treatment illustrate progress toward net-zero marine operations by 2050.

American Express Travel's first app prioritizes convenience over innovation.

Recent openings in Hong Kong, Qingdao, and Osaka have seen Hilton surpass 160 trading hotels across its luxury and lifestyle categories in Asia Pacific. (Minus one that got torched in Kathmandu and needs repairs.) Plus, more hotel deal and development news.

Skift Global Forum 2025 brings together the most powerful room in travel. This week’s event will be our biggest yet and comes at a pivotal moment for travel leaders seeking to stay ahead of consumers, AI, and the macro shifts impacting the industry.

From tourists to weddings, Sri Lanka says it knows the Indian playbook and it’s now betting the mix will fuel a boom.

Spirit Airlines went from being a profit all-star in the 2010s to a poster child for dysfunction in the 2020s. Filing for bankruptcy again, having just exited court protection in March, the ULCC is deeply distressed and losing alarming sums of money. In this week's feature story we discuss where it all went wrong, and identify possible survival strategies for the ailing carrier.

By doubling down on lifestyle hotels and conversions, Hilton looks to give owners quicker returns and travelers more local flavor.

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