Skift hires Nair to cover the Middle East
Travel industry news site Skift has hired Deepthi Nair to cover the Middle East. She has been a business journalist at The National in the United Arab Emirates since June 2020. Nair also worked as a senior editor and business reporter for the Khaleej Times and as a copy editor and features writer for the Gulf News. […]
How Skift’s Lee covers travel technology
Meredith Klein of Meredith and the Media interviewed Adriana Lee, travel technology and artificial intelligence reporter at Skift, about her job. Here is an excerpt: As Skift’s travel technology and AI reporter, you cover technology, platforms, and artificial intelligence for the travel industry’s leading news and research site. What’s driving your coverage? The pace of tech […]
How Skift has become the Bloomberg of the travel industry
Rafat Ali, founder of travel industry site Skift, spoke with Dylan Byers of Puck’s “The Grill Room” podcast to chart the rise of his business, which he’s dubbed “the Bloomberg of travel.” Ali, who previously started PaidContent.org, broke down how Skift, which was founded 13 years ago, has evolved to generate upward of $25 million […]
Skift hires USA Today’s Schulz to cover global tourism
Travel industry site Skift has hired Bailey Schulz as a global tourism reporter. She was a reporter on the USA Today Money desk for the past three years and has been at the publication since May 2021. Schulz previously was a business reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal covering gaming and tourism for two years and economic development, utilities, […]
Skift hires Lee to cover travel tech and artificial intelligence
Travel industry site Skift has hired Adriana Lee to cover travel technology and artificial intelligence. Previously, she covered tech and its impact on fashion and beauty at Women’s Wear Daily, and what everyone from the consumer to the developer needs to know at multiple tech sites, including ReadWrite and Techno Buffalo ES. Lee was also managing editor […]
Travel industry site Skift makes two acquisitions
Travel industry news site Skift has acquired membership organization Women Leading Travel & Hospitality and podcast studio Hospitality.fm for an undisclosed amount. Women Leading Travel & Hospitality will continue to be run by Hannah DeMaio. Hospitality.fm was founded by Wil Slickers, who will lead Skift’s multimedia strategy. “We’ve always informally cultivated community through our events […]
Skift seeks a global tourism and destination management reporter
The tourism business is no longer just about destination marketing – it is public policy, economic development, and crisis management rolled into one. Cities around the world are trying innovative strategies to fight overtourism, with new taxes on visitors and tough restrictions on travel companies. National tourism boards are working to boost visitor numbers while […]
Skift hires Smith as airlines editor
Transportation news site Skift has hired Gordon Smith as its airlines editor. He previously was group editor and editor at large at Commercial Aviation and also worked at Airliner World. Smith has also been a freelancer with his work published in British Airways Club Magazine, Business Traveller, Leeham News, The i newspaper, Inflight, The Mail […]
Skift hires Graham as a reporter
Travel industry site Skift has hired Darin Graham as a reporter. He is based in London and will report climate issues in the travel and tourism sector. Graham previously spent 11 years at BBC News. He has also freelanced for the Guardian and the Independent. He holds a master’s degree from City University of London.
Skift seeks a hotel reporter in the UK
Skift (verb) – origin: Nordic languages – meaning: Shift; transformation. As the daily homepage for the world’s largest industry, we are the leading news source for travel executives. We’ve proven ourselves as the information and intelligence brand at the center of it all, monitoring the ever-evolving transformation into the future of travel. Every day, our […]
