Inside G Adventures' Case for a $700 Million Year skift.com/2026/10/05/inside-… via @Skift
After almost 15 years in travel, I’ve become very good at taking miraculous things for granted. So I’m trying a little experiment in noticing them again.
Wondrous Things, Episode 1: the hotel key card.
Decades of talking about personalization and finally we're here. @skift's relaunched subscriber brief adapts daily to your profile & what you read, using genAI + "old school" ML. Huge credit to our small AND mighty team for delivering on that promise.
My contrarian take on Starlink and airline loyalty.... Because why not? 😅
“I've years of miles, credit card, status, my company flies them, and they own my home airport. But the Wi-Fi on the other airline is really good…” Yeah, that’ll do it. Or not.
skift.com/2026/10/01/airline…
Every tech demo video now looks like it was filmed after hours in an Apple Store.
Perfect mood lighting. Beautiful young people of vaguely indeterminate ethnicity. Breathily talking into microphones. Zero latency in the known universe, Order food. Book travel. Make music.
Airline Wi-Fi Has a Lie-Flat Seat Problem >> Travel history suggests the lead won't last nearly as long as the enthusiasm around it... skift.com/2026/10/01/airline… via @Skift
How L Catterton Became One of Travel’s Most Interesting Investors skift.com/2026/09/28/how-l-c… via @Skift
Rafat Ali, Media Operator & Dad retweeted
Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, just took the stage at Skift Global Forum.
As founder of Travalyst, he's spent years pushing the travel industry to make sustainable choices easier for travelers, not just talk about them. Today he's joining us to discuss what transforming travel's future actually requires, and who needs to move first.
Up next: Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky with Rafat Ali on rebuilding as an AI-native company.
Watch live: hubs.li/Q04y9Rzr0
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry, at @skift Global Forum 2026, live…on travel’s responsibility to the world and a more resilient future. Cc @Travalyst
What Uber and Airbnb Reveal About Expanding Beyond the Core skift.com/2026/09/20/what-ub… via @Skift
The Billion-Dollar Travel Company You’ve Probably Never Heard Of skift.com/2026/09/18/the-bil… via @Skift
Starting Tue: about 1,500 people from across global travel, 5 Skift events, 3 days, all under one giant roof in NYC. You will never regret last-minute NYC in Sept, if you’re still deciding! 👉🏼👉🏼 live.skift.com/skift-global-…
🤖 Made with AI
Mark my words: This isn't the way. The past, present, and future of journalism is "create and distribute on your own." Lot slower. Yep, as everything worth building is.
Newton and @kevinroose have licensed their show to NPR. @dee_bosa has licensed hers to Yahoo Finance. I’ve licensed mine to NBC News. This is the future of journalism: own your work, build independently, distribute and partner with others.
Abercrombie & Kent’s Multibillion-Dollar Bet on Crystal Cruises >> Spent weeks inside financial filings from about half a dozen jurisdictions to come up with this skift.com/2026/09/10/inside-… via @Skift
6 after I wrote that the Claude Effect was coming for travel, I think the bigger story is clearer: personal AI agents built for everything else are becoming travel agents...and may become the new front door to travel. 👉🏼👉🏼 skift.com/2026/09/09/why-the…
What Happens to a Travel Company Owned by Private Equity for Too Long? skift.com/2026/09/01/what-ha… via @Skift
"Embrace ignorance of dreary idiocy. It is the kind of ignorance that makes you smarter." open.substack.com/pub/howthi…
