Category: Travel Industry

Every projection --- IMF, World Bank, Industry Analysts, WSJ, Bloomberg  --- I read is not just worse next year, but significantly worse.

I am cutting (global) travel industry growth targets by 15% for June/July/August summer travel. GDP growth reduction, skyrocketing inflation, consumer price increases, central bank rate increases and additional contributing factors (staff shortages, low morale..).

Mideast OTA’s simply don’t, don’t to the same level of success or been too slow in executing the right strategy.

Good news! It's (a) already back depending on

(yes you read that right). This post is intended (a) to spur markets you can cater to or research further, and (b) demonstrate travel is rebounding around the world. Turkey inbound travel had the best EVER year for inbound travel. Pakistan is growing and almost at pre-Covid levels given the players I’ve spoken with. Seychelles has capacity constraints with all the inbound travelers from South Asia and MENA. In most markets, domestic travel is growing and the first to rebound. This is the case in India, the United States, S Africa and China. All have large and growing intra-country traffic. ... Read more

ravel apps need to take a page out of the social media app handbook and publish lite versions. I feel strongly about this, and this applies to non-travel apps as well.

Travelers from nearby countries are grossly underserved and represent a lucrative untapped group of travelers.