How Apple’s New Privacy Effort Will Impact Travel Marketing

Privacy efforts will keep chipping away at old school digital advertising practices. Travel marketers need to persuade more consumers to consent to share their data directly. They should consider new ideas, like creating media networks and data co-ops, to help. -Sean O'Neill

10 cool UK city hotels for under £100 a night

City hotel deals are plentiful this autumn, with boutique pads from London to Edinburgh offering stylish rooms at competitive rates Bold and bright Nhow in Shoreditch, east London, doesn’t shy away from a photo opp with multiple murals, neon script signs, Beetlejuice-esque furniture and a Big Ben rocket statue taking off in reception. The family-friendly hotel’s Frills Without Bills package (doubles from £99 B&B) includes free room upgrades where available, breakfast, late check out and free cancellation up to 48 hours before arrival (until 10 October). Continue reading...

A CEO’s Love Letter to Travel

I miss travel the way I miss an old friend — the absence is there even without pausing to focus on it. -Arne Sorenson

Trivago CEO and Kayak Co-Founder Possess Skewed Views on the Best Way to Innovate

When it comes to brainstorming, there's no substitute for a Skift reporter ambling over to a Skift Research analyst's desk, and shooting the breeze about Oyo's model, or looking over a shoulder to view on screen how Expedia's marketing spend is trending. That dynamic is really tough to replicate on Zoom. -Dennis Schaal

See flying car successfully tested in Japan

A Japanese company has announced the successful test of a manned flying car after conducting a public demonstration on August 25.

Share your summer holiday highlight for the chance to win a £200 holiday voucher

Whether home or away, tell us about the standout moment from your travels in this strangest of summers It’s been a summer like no other. Going on holiday after months of lockdown felt both special and strange. Millions opted to stay in the UK, snapping up rural camping pitches and cottages. Some were lucky enough to dodge the quarantine roulette and make it abroad. We would love to hear about your post-lockdown trip. Tell us about the best bits – or the worst! – giving as much detail as possible about where you were and what you did. If you have taken a great photograph of the experience, please feel free to send it in – though it is your tip that will be judged for the competition. Keep your tip to about 100 words. Continue reading...

Hot to trot: pack pony-trekking in the mountains of Wales

A new tourism initiative aims to protect threatened Welsh mountain ponies by giving them new purpose – offering trekkers a wild experience From the moment we began ascending the hillside I could tell my walking companion, Suze, was nervous. Beneath her long ginger fringe her eyes were wide, on high alert. After years of solo hiking, I was feeling a little apprehensive, too. Would we get on? Would she refuse to walk the distance? Would she be happy carrying all our kit? Suze, I should mention, is a pony. But not just any pony. She’s one of a semi-feral herd that has roamed the mountainous regions of Wales since as far back as 1600BC. Said to be relatives of the prehistoric Celtic breed, Welsh mountain ponies were traditionally used to transport goods to market, plough fields and work as pit ponies in the mines, not for riding. Their once widespread use is the reason thousands of miles of bridleways were cleaved across the countryside, creating a network of rights of way that exist to this day. Continue reading...