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Skift Take Sessions is a weekly podcast built from the most important conversations shaping the global travel industry. Each episode features candid, journalist-led interviews with CEOs and senior leaders across airlines, hotels, travel platforms, and experiences. Recorded live at Skift events, these conversations go beyond headlines to explore how decisions are made, how companies compete, and how the industry is evolving. Hosted by Wil Slickers, Skift Take Sessions adds the context that matters — why each conversation is relevant now and what we learned. You’ll hear directly from leaders at companies like Hilton, Expedia Group, Booking Holdings, Airbnb, JetBlue, and more. If you want a clearer view into where travel is headed next, Skift Take Sessions delivers insight from the people shaping it. New episodes every week. Available wherever you get your podcasts and at Skift.com.
Skift hosts Skift Take Sessions, a business show with 13 episodes published.
At Skift’s Data + AI Summit, Wil Slickers sits down with Rob Drotar, Industry Principal at Thoughtworks, to unpack one of the next major shifts facing travel: the rise of AI agents as a new customer interface. The conver
Intrepid Travel is proving that you can build a mission-driven travel company and still be more profitable than ever. In this Skift Take Sessions episode, Wil Slickers tees up a Skift Global Forum conversation moderated
Destination marketing is changing fast, and this session makes it obvious why. In this Skift Take Sessions episode, Wil Slickers sits down with Skift tourism reporter Bailey Schulz to unpack the biggest takeaways from Sk
AI is becoming the new front door to travel, and consumer behavior is moving faster than most companies can keep up. In this Skift Take Sessions episode, Wil Slickers sits down with Skift Head of Research Seth Borko to b
OYO is now Prism, and the strategy is bigger than a name change. In this Skift Take Sessions episode, Wil Slickers sits down with Skift hospitality reporter Sean O’Neill to break down what Prism CEO Ritesh Agarwal is rea
In this Skift Take Sessions episode, Wil Slickers sits down with Skift hospitality reporter Sean O’Neill for a quick, high-signal setup on what mattered most from IHG CEO Elie Maalouf’s Skift Global Forum appearance. Wil
Alaska Airlines is in one of the most important transition moments in its modern history, and it is happening under real operational pressure. In this Skift Take Sessions episode, Wil Slickers opens with a quick setup co
This episode starts with a quick setup conversation between Wil Slickers and Skift’s airlines editor Gordon Smith, teeing up why this JetBlue session hits differently: it opens with a real-time operational disruption and
If AI becomes the front door to travel, who wins and who pays? Wil Slickers sits down with Dennis Schaal for a sharp, no-fluff breakdown of the biggest takeaways from Skift Global Forum, including the question everyone i
In this Skift Take Sessions episode, Wil Slickers opens with a quick conversation with Skift’s airlines editor Gordon Smith to break down the real story behind Breeze Airways, and why most people misunderstand what the a
In this Skift Take Sessions episode, Wil Slickers opens with a quick conversation with Dennis Schaal to break down what mattered most from Skift Global Forum, before we roll the full on-stage session featuring Airbnb CEO
Southwest Airlines is rewriting its identity, and the story is bigger than “assigned seating” and “bags fly free.” To kick off the first episode of Skift Take Sessions, Wil Slickers sits down with Skift airlines reporter
Skift Take Sessions is a new weekly podcast for anyone who wants to understand how the global travel industry really works. In this trailer, host Wil Slickers introduces the show and explains what listeners can expect ea
James Thornton
CEO of Intrepid Travel · Intrepid Travel
1 appearance on this show
Bret Taylor
Chief Executive Officer · Sierra AI
1 appearance on this show
Jason Berry
Chief Operating Officer of Alaska Airlines, EVP of Cargo at Alaska Air Group · Nolan Transportation Group
1 appearance on this show
David Neeleman
founder and CEO of Breeze Airways · JetBlue
1 appearance on this show
Brian Chesky
co-founder and CEO of Airbnb · Airbnb
1 appearance on this show
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