The Skift Travel Podcast
Hosted by Sarah Kopit and Seth Borko · Skift
4.4from 61 ratings
- 337
- Episodes
- 153
- Transcribed
- 61
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
- 2M
- YouTube views
About The Skift Travel Podcast
Get the latest from the most-trusted travel industry news source. Skift sits down with creatives, executives, and entrepreneurs from across travel to discuss their insights and perspectives on the hows and whys of travelers’ habits, industry patterns, and the seismic changes happening across the industry. Listen for exclusive conversations with travel leaders and Skift's own in-house editors and analysts. Read the latest news every day at skift.com/news.
- Publisher
- Skift
- Category
- leisure · news · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 4 Jun 2015
- Latest episode
- 9 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
153 of 337 episodes have a transcript.
9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Andrew Zimmern on Why Travel Needs Trust in the AI Era
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Growth Under Pressure: The Decisions Hotel Brands Are Making Now
26 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
AI Is Here. Now Travel Has to Figure Out Who to Trust.
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Andrew Zimmern on Why Travel Needs Trust in the AI Era
Published 9 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] For the purpose of this conversation, this isn't a word I'm coined, but the salt tankification, the lineification, the overtourism of it all of these super popular destinations where everyone wants to go online to do the viral whatever tour or the viral whatever destination. What do you make of that? I think you can't yuck on somebody's yum. And I think... that what people are often forgetting, I see a lot of people having this conversation in social media. I see people having this conversation on stages at conferences. I see people having this conversation in all kinds of places. And I think what they're forgetting is is that the vast majority of the people who go to Paris and walk to the west side of it, past Envalide, to where there's that rise and you can get that great picture, are people for whom a trip to Paris might be the trip of a lifetime. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on The Skift Travel Podcast
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- Andrew Zimmern
- Heather Balsley
- Peter Manoogian
- Alex Trusca
- Gilad Berenstein
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 2,228,330
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.2 / 5
- 39 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.6 / 5
- 22 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 92 / 100
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- Quality
- 90
- Social presence
- 97
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 92
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Who hosts The Skift Travel Podcast?
Sarah Kopit and Seth Borko host the show. Published by Skift.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does The Skift Travel Podcast take guests?
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