Explore Innovation and Creativity in Travel With the Skift Ideas Podcast

Despite the wide-ranging impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on various sectors, the travel industry emerged as one of the hardest hit. 

However, travel is back, with the Skift Travel Health Index indicating that travel performance has surpassed April 2019 levels. 

Concurrently, the industry is experiencing a surge of innovation and creativity, driven by numerous organizations utilizing the experiences of the pandemic to evaluate, recalibrate, and adopt fresh outlooks towards travel.

As we continue on our mission to celebrate these groundbreaking creative projects and build the industry's go-to resource for the campaigns, designs, and ideas taking the industry to the next level, we are excited to launch the next chapter: the Skift Ideas Podcast. 

Through the podcast – which will be hosted by industry thought leaders Rafat Ali and Colin Nagy – we will immerse listeners in discussions regarding the latest innovations within the industry, focusing on the key topics of design, marketing, sustainability, experience and so much more. 

In each episode, Rafat and Colin will be joined by travel visionaries, creatives, and pioneers who are steering the travel and hospitality industries into the future, inciting frank, inspiring and thought provoking conversations into current innovation and what exciting breakthroughs are set to come. 

This first episode looks at today's state of creativity and innovation within the travel industry, and what ideas are already transforming the way we look at travel.

Rafat Ali: Hey folks, welcome to the Skift Ideas podcast, the first edition of our series that we're starting here. I'm really excited for this bi weekly discussion on innovation, design, experience, creativity in the travel industry, and I'm delighted to do it with my co-host, Colin Nagy, who's been a longtime columnist at Skift, writing about the experiences in the travel industry in different aspects.

We will talk to thinkers, craftspeople and operators in the travel industry and around the edges as well, which I think is very important. And this bi weekly discussion, the first one which we're going to talk about, the state of creativity in travel is just me and Colin, and in the subsequent editions we will have guests along with it as well.

So let's jump in.

Why are we starting this podcast? The Skift Ideas