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State of Travel 2025
State of Travel 2025

Skift

time7 days ago

  • Business
  • Skift

State of Travel 2025

The future of travel is unfolding now; you just need the right data and insights to see it. The State of Travel report is your essential guide to understanding the trends shaping our industry and staying ahead of the modern traveler as a company, association, or destination. Report Overview Welcome to Skift Research's State of Travel 2025 report There is an apocryphal ancient curse: 'May you live in interesting times'. We in the travel industry are certainly living through an interesting time for tourism in 2025. After a smooth take-off at the start of the year, the travel industry quickly hit turbulence as concerns about trade, tariffs, and policy weighed on the global economy. Make no mistake, the state of travel in 2025 remains strong. Our industry continues to grow. Travel has shown impressive resilience in a world tested by macroeconomic uncertainty and evolving consumer expectations. Then there is the pace of technology. Machine learning, once the gold standard for artificial intelligence is now table stakes. Travel technologists have gotten their footing with generative AI tools and are scaling LLMs even as we start to look forward to an agentic future. Changes in how businesses and consumers use AI could upend the long-established competitive landscape. Interesting times, indeed. Amid all these shifts, the consumer remains the north star. Travel is the most aspirational purchase in the world. The transition to an experiential economy continues and thousands of new travelers are emerging every day. But many questions remain. What is the next great travel experience? Where will the next wave of travelers come from? How will short-term rentals, airlines, and hotels adapt to shifting consumer priorities? How will sustainability pressures and the rapid adoption of technology reshape business models? Our State of Travel 2025 report is designed to be your reference handbook for navigating this evolving landscape. From proprietary consumer research and sector deep-dives to executive perspectives and market forecasts, we've assembled over 300 charts and insights covering nearly every corner of the industry. We hope this report helps you take these interesting times and turn them into a blessing, rather than a curse. Enjoy the report. This report is sponsored by Allianz Partners & Epsilon If you are not a Skift Research subscriber, please visit this page instead

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