Daytrip’s Bi-Weekly Reading Recommendations
Every day, we see all sorts of new articles from the travel industry. Many of them interesting. Every two weeks, the number of new articles amounts to exactly one gazillion. So to save you from having to read it all (and to make it easier for you), we do it for you. And we cherry-pick the ones that caught our eye and share them with you. These are the articles from the last two weeks.
Cruises and sustainability
Hurtigruten Cruise Line takes concrete and immediate steps to be sustainable. The two most crucial areas are overcrowding and overtourism.
https://www.cntraveler.com/story/innovators-anne-marit-bjornflaten-hurtigruten
Hotels vs. OTAs
Hotels are stepping up their game to be able to compete with OTA’s. Focusing more on the next generation of travelers, the millennials. They are becoming aware that nowadays experience comes first.
Uber for public transportation
Ground Transportation attracts our attention a we consider this announcement as an interesting step. Uber become part of public transportation in India. Combination of metro and Uber should be a sustainable way of door2door service. Do you like this idea?
https://inc42.com/buzz/uber-launches-public-transport-services-in-india-starting-with-delhi-metro/
Sharks and whales gone, climate crisis to blame?
Climate change is affecting tourism and challenging destinations and countries like South Africa on a long term perspective.
https://skift.com/2019/10/19/cape-towns-conundrum-sharks-gone-and-now-the-whales-too/
Business travel report
Skift and TripActions came with a deep-dive into the state of business travel. For example, did you know that over 58 % of business travellers have combined a work trip with a leisure trip in the past 12 months?
https://skift.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Skift-x-TripActions-FINAL.pdf
PS: No one has time to read everything and we are, after all, only human. So if you think we missed something or that another article should have a place in the top 5, let us know! We’ll be grateful.
