Skift Global Forum 2025: Everything You Need to Know in 3 Minutes

Skift Global Forum 2025 puts you in the room with the executives, innovators, and disruptors who are redefining airlines, hotels, and destinations. Are you in or watching from the sidelines?

From September 16–18, New York City’s Glasshouse transforms into the epicenter of travel innovation for the industry’s top executives. 

Skift Global Forum 2025, now in its 12th year, brings together senior leaders, strategists, and innovators from 60+ countries to tackle the challenges and opportunities shaping the future of travel.

Why Attend

This year’s theme, Travel 2030: People, Platforms, and New Paths Forward, asks the big questions shaping the future of travel:

• Can airlines innovate fast enough under constant pressure?
• How will hotels reinvent their business models for the next decade?
• Can destinations grow tourism without overwhelming local communities?
• Will AI-powered personalization actually earn traveler loyalty?
• How will food, sports, and culture influence where and why people travel?
• Can regenerative travel scale while keeping its authenticity?

Sessions are single-stage, conversation-driven, and curated by Skift’s editorial team to ensure relevance, depth, and actionable takeaways.

Networking That Works

Join executives from 800+ companies with over 70% at director-level or above.

• Pre-schedule meetings via our event app
• Participate in Executive Roundtables for candid, small-group strategy discussions (limited seats remain)
• Confirmed attendees include leaders from Amazon, Google, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Marriott International, Mastercard, and many more.

Industry Titans Take the Stage

Gain insights from CEOs and founders shaping global travel:

• Glenn Fogel, Booking Holdings — Travel’s Strength Amidst Great Change
• Jason Liberty, Royal Caribbean Group — Redefining the Future of Vacations
• Ariane Gorin, Expedia Group — Staying Ahead in the AI Era
• Elie Maalouf, IHG Hotels & Resorts — Leading Through Change: Tech, Talent, and Global Growth
• Ritesh Agarwal, OYO — India’s Global Impact
• Barry Biffle, Frontier Airlines — The Future of Domestic Travel
• Andrew Zimmern, TV Personality and Chef — Rethinking the Intersection of Food and Travel

…plus many more visionaries across hospitality, aviation, technology, and finance.

The Skift Difference

Skift Global Forum is the catalyst for industry innovation. Attendees leave with:

• Real strategies to navigate disruption
• Unscripted conversations with global leaders
• Fresh insights into emerging trends and technologies
• Connections that turn ideas into action

Takeaways from Skift Global Forum 2024

In 2024, leaders walked away with:

• Frameworks for balancing renewal and responsibility — how to grow travel while facing climate change, geopolitical shifts, and evolving traveler expectations.
• Community-first models — Zita Cobb of Fogo Island Inn showed how projects can serve residents as much as visitors, reshaping how destinations define success.
• Food as a cultural bridge — Stephen Satterfield urged the industry to use culinary storytelling to deepen traveler connections.
• Tech in action — from AI-powered food waste reduction in hotels to Dubai Airports’ vision of frictionless security, practical examples showed innovation’s real payoff.
• Urgent calls for access and equity — with 400-day U.S. visa waits spotlighting travel’s geopolitical roadblocks, and DEI experts pressing for representation that shapes real outcomes.

That’s the kind of insight Skift Global Forum delivers — inspiration paired with concrete next steps.

Secure Your Spot

Tickets are almost gone. Explore the agenda, review the speaker lineup, and join the leaders, strategists, and innovators shaping the next decade of travel.

Skift Global Forum 2025 is where the future of travel becomes strategy. Don’t miss your chance to be part of it.