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Today’s edition of Skift’s daily podcast looks at Dubai’s high-stakes visual marketing, an airline merger in Southern Africa, and Selina’s delayed IPO.
Rashaad Jorden | 2 months ago
Travel Agents
Travel agents, sometimes called advisors, have seen many changes through the years, but the pandemic altered their profession in unimaginable ways. And that upheaval's not dying down anytime soon, with booking travel becoming more complicated and advisors seeing their roles as even more necessary.
Rashaad Jorden | 4 months ago
Airline Weekly
Comair, South Africa's second-largest airline, ceased operations earlier this month and is being liquidated. Its failure leaves a vacuum in the country's airline market, Africa's largest, that other airlines will struggle to fill.
5 months ago
Airlines
It was going to be a tall order for Comair to survive the double whammy of restrictions enacted after the first wave of Covid and the emergence of Omicron. The airline's inability to obtain funding made its decision inevitable.
Promit Mukherjee, Reuters | 5 months ago
Does Ryanair believe the only acceptable South Africans to fly on its planes are those relative few who speak Afrikaans?
Promit Mukherjee, Reuters | 6 months ago
Tourism
The damage caused by the floods represents an enormous setback for South African beach resorts that still haven't fully rebounded from Covid. And as scientists predict storms will worsen along the Indian Ocean in coming decades, those destinations will continue to face weather-related hurdles in their recovery.
Siyabonga Sishi, Reuters | 7 months ago
China, Peru, Argentina and South Africa didn't join the latest wave of sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine. How will the rest of the world now view these countries? From a travel and tourism perspective, expect a severe backlash.
Raissa Kasolowsky and Grant McCool, Reuters | 8 months ago
Tourism campaigns out of the African continent are getting creative and breaking stereotypes in a way never before seen. We're here for it.
Lebawit Lily Girma | 8 months ago
This unfortunate pause comes just as South Africa reopens fully to greater regional and international travel.
Wendell Roelf, Reuters | 8 months ago
Business Travel
Good morning from Skift. It's Tuesday, March 8, in New York City. Here's what you need to know about the business of travel today.
Rashaad Jorden | 9 months ago