Photo Caption: Editor-in-Chief Sarah Kopit and Head of Research Seth Borko are the hosts of the Skift Travel Podcast. Kopit: Welcome back to the Skift Travel Podcast. I’m Skift’s Editor-in-Chief Sarah ...
Medical tourism is nothing new. People have been seeking more affordable, sometimes higher-quality care for as long as humans could cross borders. In today’s world that usually means travel to foreign ...
Skift's research shows that there are real developments taking place and that it is still early enough for savvy destinations and businesses to make their mark with innovative approaches to green ...
The so-called travel trend of dark tourism has mystified academics and sun-seeking holidaymakers alike for years, as some travellers continue to be compelled to visit places with dark pasts instead of ...
Digital tourism, sometimes referred to as ‘Digital travel,’ is a term that encompasses the digital technologies or digital tools that travellers can use to organise their trips better. It can help ...
Practicing health and wellness in our daily lives isn’t enough for many of us — we seek well-being when we travel, too. Enter: wellness tourism, a concept that the U.S.-based nonprofit organization ...
If you've ever wanted to visit — or actually visited — locations where disasters or tragedies occurred, you're not alone. This style of travel even has its own name: dark tourism. While dark tourism ...
A typical Making the Road trip to South Africa includes a visit to Soweto, a township outside of Johannesburg that was the site of anti-apartheid organizing and violence for years. Jörg ...
Puerto Rico sets the scene in a brand new released WTTC study entitled Enhancing Resilience to drive sustainability in a destination. Defining and linking resilience and sustainability Is resilience a ...
Few things hurt like poor sleep, so it's worth ensuring that your sleep travels take you only to the most restful and rejuvenating locations. Joshua Cox-Steib is a sociologist and freelance writer. He ...
When locals in the charming Austrian lakeside village of Hallstatt staged a blockade of the main access tunnel, brandishing placards asking visitors to ‘think of the children’, it highlighted what can ...