Dennis Schaal

Dennis Schaal is Skift's Founding Editor and Executive Editor. Dennis has been a reporter focusing on online travel and short-term rentals for more than two decades at Skift, Tnooz, USA Today, and Travel Weekly. He is well-known for tough one-on-one interviews on stage at Skift events, including with the CEOs and top execs of Expedia, Uber, Booking Holdings, Priceline, Kayak, Hopper, and more.

Latest Stories

Airlines

Why the New JetBlue Is an East Coast Leisure Airline

Airlines can have identity crises. As it tries to get back to profitability, JetBlue thinks it knows who it is.

Dennis Schaal | 2 days ago

Online Travel

Expedia-Uber Deal? No Way, Says Barry Diller

Even if Uber-Expedia was the right deal — and that was dubious — it was the wrong time.

Dennis Schaal | 6 days ago

Online Travel

Booking Holdings to Lay Off Employees, Shift Spending Priorities

Was Booking Holdings getting too fat? With operating costs outpacing revenue growth, something had to give. We might not know the exact chess moves for awhile.

Dennis Schaal | 6 days ago

Short-Term Rentals

Airbnb CEO: Co-Host Initiative Is an ‘Alternative’ to Property Management Companies

Turf wars between individual and professional hosts on Airbnb have been long-standing. Chesky isn't making friends with professional hosts when touting Airbnb's co-hosting network as a way to replace them.

Dennis Schaal | 1 week ago

Online Travel

Tripadvisor’s Deal: No Outside Suitors, Talks Ongoing With Controlling Shareholder

Tripadvisor has well-documented struggles of its own, but its relationship with Greg Maffei's Liberty Tripadvisor has weighed down Tripadvisor for years.

Dennis Schaal | 1 week ago

Experiences

Tripadvisor Is Still Considering ‘Strategic Alternatives’

Tripadvisor officials are doing their jobs in that they are trying to grow the company in the event no strategic transaction takes place. But eventually there has to be one.

Dennis Schaal | 1 week ago

Online Travel

Trivago Demands Higher Compensation From Smaller Advertisers

It's been a tough run for Trivago in the Google Hotels era. No one ever said the metasearch business would be easy.

Dennis Schaal | 1 week ago

Online Travel

Booking and Expedia: A Post-Pandemic Hiring Spree Versus Modest Growth

Booking's revenue has blown past pandemic levels, and it added back nearly 4,000 employees. Expedia trimmed its workforce anew in 2024 following completion of a tech migration.

Dennis Schaal | 1 week ago

Online Travel

Expedia Extends Its Loyalty Program to Microsoft Bing Travel Users

Expedia was spun out of Microsoft before the turn of the century, and the two Seattle-based companies have always been tight. They just got a bit tighter.

Dennis Schaal | 2 weeks ago

Online Travel

Hello Google, ChatGPT Just Became a Travel Search Engine

And so it begins.

Dennis Schaal | 2 weeks ago