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Travel Trends

Skift Originals

Trend alert: Shopping tourism to drive growth as east invades west’s shopping malls

The key to shopping tourism is making spending as easy as possible for incoming tourists by breaking down cost and cultural barriers and creating an entire experience centered around stores.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 12 years ago

Trend alert: Shopping tourism to drive growth as east invades west’s shopping malls

Tourism

Brands roll out the red carpet to earn loyalty of Chinese tourists

The brand that’s the first to earn Chinese loyalty on the road is on its way to long-term success as the high spending demographic is growing and new enough to still pick favorites.

Lola Pedro, The Daily Telegraph | 12 years ago

Brands roll out the red carpet to earn loyalty of Chinese tourists
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Hotels

Pop-up hotels: they exist and they’re a big hit

Pop-up hotels offer a quick ROI with the ability to change location should instability sour a destination and the opportunity to tailor hotel themes to match special events.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

Most of the $5 million spent on hotel improvements this year went to lobby renovations

Spending is up again as rates and occupancy levels are the highest they’ve been in years, but the focus on lobby design means hotels are most concerned with their first impressions and brand identity.

Skift | 12 years ago

Most of the $5 million spent on hotel improvements this year went to lobby renovations

Airlines

Air traffic grows in Middle East and Latin America despite global stagnation

Both global and domestic air travel growth remained weak this August with exceptions for Middle Eastern carriers in the international market, and domestic market growth in both China and Brazil.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 12 years ago

Skift Originals

Staycations dying off as pre-recession travel habits return

Staycations was a terrible term for local travel. And local travel as a trend, the engine of local development, isn't going away, it is just morphing in various ways.

Rafat Ali, Skift | 12 years ago

Tourism

New trend sees music festivals moving from land to sea and sky

Coachella on a cruise and DJs dancing on a Virgin flight is just the beginning of a trend where promoters team up traditional travel companies to offer loyal festival-goers a new spin on their favorite events.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

Hotels cater to a new generation of guests who want better book options

Book exchanges and libraries have been a staple in youth hostels for years, but upscale hotels have caught onto the idea and are now offering pre-loaded e-readers, libraries, and book clubs for guests.

Skift | 12 years ago

SkiftX

What Uber’s ridership data can reveal about a city’s work versus play habits

Uber’s data breakdown provides an interesting comparison for American cities, but it’s difficult to truly extrapolate the data since the majority of any cities’ transportation users don’t rely on the car service.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

Hotels piggyback on success of Fifty Shades of Grey with package deals

Every pop culture hit gets its own tourism tie-ins. It's just that this one is more titillating than New York's "Spider Man Week."

Skift | 12 years ago