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Skift Ideas: The Weekly Round-Up

A weekly round-up of the stories featured on our Skift Ideas Blog, highlighting the exciting new creative projects, campaigns, designs, and future-making ideas from across the travel industry. In this week’s round-up, Las Vegas encourages excessive celebration ahead of Super Bowl LVIII, Foster + Partners reveal their model village for Saudi Arabia’s Expo 2025 exhibition,…

Skift Ideas: The Weekly Round-Up

A weekly round-up of the stories featured on our Skift Ideas Blog, highlighting the exciting new creative projects, campaigns, designs, and future-making ideas from across the travel industry. In this week’s round-up, Ras Al Khaimah aims to inspire visitors to relax with a new campaign starring the ‘most relaxed cat in the world’, Indigo Hotels…

Skift Ideas: The Weekly Round-Up

A weekly round-up of the stories featured on our Skift Ideas Blog, highlighting the exciting new creative projects, campaigns, designs, and future-making ideas from across the travel industry. In this week’s round-up, Emirates announced a limited edition luggage collection made from upcylced aircraft interiors, Four Seasons Hotel Abu Dhabi launched a sustainable art project, and…

Skift Ideas: The Weekly Round-Up

A weekly round-up of the stories featured on the Skift Ideas Blog, highlighting the exciting new creative projects, campaigns, designs, and future-making ideas from across the travel industry. In this week’s round-up, unlikely ‘Best Friends’ Robert De Niro and Asa Butterfield star in Uber One’s latest campaign, Alaska Airlines unveils ‘Mickey’s Toontown Express’, and the…

Skift Ideas Podcast: Designing a Sustainable Legacy, with Bill Bensley

Join us as for episode six of the Skift Ideas Podcast, where Colin Nagy is joined by designer Bill Bensley, Founder of Bensley, to discuss the remarkable journey that has shaped his unique perspective on the world of design. Listen here. You can catch up on previous episodes, listen and subscribe to the podcast on all of…

Skift Ideas: The Weekly Round-Up

A weekly round-up of the stories featured on our Skift Ideas Blog, highlighting the exciting new creative projects, campaigns, designs, and future-making ideas from across the travel industry. In this week’s round-up Colin Nagy dives into the bold new loyalty program from Shashi, British Airways launches a new campaign in celebration of Diwali, and Visit…

Skift Ideas Podcast: The Power of Opportunity in Hospitality, with Harsha L’acqua

Join us as for episode five of the Skift Ideas Podcast, where Colin Nagy is joined by Harsha L’Acqua, Founder & CEO of Saira Hospitality, to discuss the past and future of hospitality, and the undeniable importance of unlocking opportunities within communities. Listen here. You can catch up on previous episodes, listen and subscribe to the…

Meet the 2023 Winner: Kiwi.com “Hacks” YouTube

CREATIVE THINKERSCategory: Content Kiwi.com rebranded, faced with trying to stand out amongst a ‘sea of sameness’ in the travel industry, the company looked like just another OTA playing catch-up to the bigger known brands and needed to show off its differences which are thanks to its technology (its algorithm) finding unique itineraries not found on…

Meet the 2023 Winners: Navan Connect

PROBLEM SOLVERSCategory: Travel Technology After years of conversations with thousands of customers at every level of leadership, one universal truth was revealed: Companies want to give their employees Navan’s magical ‘No expense reports’ experience. But at the same time, many customers enjoy the benefits they get from their existing institutional corporate card and banking relationships.…

Meet the 2023 Winners: Knowland’s Meeting Recovery Forecast

PROBLEM SOLVERSCategory: Data Provider In late 2021, Knowland launched the Meeting Recovery Forecast, the hospitality industry’s first meetings activity forecast, and has continued the forecast into 2023 as an indicator of industry rebound, measured by the recapture of 2019 event volumes. The Meetings Recovery Forecast (MRF) and the Top 25 U.S. Meetings Recovery Forecast (MRF25)…