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What the End of the $600-a-Week U.S. Unemployment Check Will Mean for Travel’s Displaced Masses

Countless unemployed workers in the travel industry have been relying on the extra weekly $600 from the government. Now that the payments are effectively over, many travel workers will face even greater hardship to just get by.

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How We Retooled Skift Global Forum for a Changed Travel World

This September, Skift Global Forum 2020 will present the frank, transparent ideas the industry needs as it faces its greatest crisis. As an online global conference, Skift editors will lead in-depth conversations with leaders as they work to rebuild the industry.

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Disney Parks’ Lost Summer May Become a Lost Year

The magic kingdom has lost some of its magic in 2020. But Disney fans are devoted, and the theme parks will bounce back.

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IHG's Race to Avoid Defaulting on More Than 100 Hotels: What's the Fallout?

IHG could become the first major victim of a coronavirus-related financial drag on hotels in North America, but its default may be a strategic play on a financial structure unusual for such a global brand.

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Unused Airline Tickets Are Driving Corporate Travel Agencies Crazy Right Now

Many travel managers and even agencies were caught off guard by the pandemic, underestimating how long it could last. Cue the last minute dash to work out how to leverage all those unused tickets.

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How India’s SpiceJet Is Using Tech to Innovate During the Pandemic

SpiceJet has championed reforms of airport processes that have already changed how all air travelers in India fly on all airlines. In a move reported here first, the budget carrier will begin to sell some of the tech it has developed to other airlines.

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Wyndham Destinations Looks to Put Millennials Into Urban Timeshares

Wyndham Destinations' ongoing urban push, including a new resort slated for Atlanta, is out to prove this travel sector isn't like your grandparents' old timeshare in the Bahamas.

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Don't Miss Mondays Live With Skift Airline Weekly

Join Brett "The Cranky Flier" Snyder and Airline Weekly Editor Madhu Unnikrishnan for a look back on the second quarter and what those grim financial results may augur for the fall. Join us for a livestream at 12 p.m. EDT, on Monday, August 3.

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This Stationary Life …

We have always assumed constant movement is better. I am questioning that now, in an extended lockdown world …

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Imagining Travel in the Year Ahead: Skift’s 8th Anniversary Edition

We may have asked our reporters and editors to do the impossible task for this year's Skift anniversary. Tell us what travel will look like when we celebrate our 9th year in 2021. What you will read, of course, is the most accurate snapshot yet of where we could be next year.

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Has the Pandemic Killed the Freebie Trip for Travel Influencers?

The comped influencer trip has long been a divisive idea in the travel industry, but in the context of the pandemic, some are asking if it should exist at all.

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