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Online Travel Faces Lots of Unfinished Business in 2022

Online Travel Faces Lots of Unfinished Business in 2022

Online travel has a ton of loose ends, questions to be answered, and fortunes to be won or blown, and these issues didn’t get resolved, of course, just because the Gregorian calendar spent its annual allotment of days on December 31.

Here are some of the open questions for online travel in 2022:

Who Will Be Tripadvisor’s Next CEO?

The search for a CEO at Tripadvisor to replace outgoing boss Steve Kaufer is still under way, and chief financial officer Ernst Teunissen, who’s been at that post for six years, would have to be considered a leading candidate on anyone’s list of prospects. The CFO position is a well-worn route to the top inside online travel companies and beyond. As capable as Teunissen might be — he certainly knows the breadth of the business — his appointment would be a disappointment for diversity advocates.

If not now, at one of the most progressive major travel companies, then when?

Read the full article on Skift.