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Six ways to improve travel program compliance
By Terri Buscemi - Amex GBT
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July 6, 2020
Concerns about travelers’ well-being and cost control have renewed travel managers’ focus on improving policy compliance and program guidelines. Let’s explore actions to optimise budgets while...
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North American airlines lagging in implementation of advanced health protocols
By Mitra Sorrells
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June 22, 2020
An analysis by VIDEC has found North American carriers trail others in implementing COVID-19 traveler health protocols.
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With trade shows cancelled, travel tech startup takes its show on the road - literally
By Mitra Sorrells
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June 16, 2020
With all industry trade shows cancelled, the founder of travel tech startup Entrada Insights is embarking on a cross-country road trip to meet potential clients.
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Journera nabs $11.6 million to move its tech platform into growth stage
By Mitra Sorrells
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June 10, 2020
Journera has raised $11.6 million in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz and B Capital.
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Startups join forces to create digital services platform for rental accommodation and hotels
By Linda Fox
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June 3, 2020
SmartDigitalPlug was created by six startups to help small hotels and rental properties to digitize their services and address some of the current safety and hygiene challenges.
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Road trips pick up in U.S. as coronavirus restrictions ease
By Mitra Sorrells
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May 6, 2020
Arrivalist is tracking road trip data across the United States and found travel increased substantially the first weekend of May.
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InPhocus, episode 6 - Being smart is all we have at the moment
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April 16, 2020
Forecasting with smart data, a future role for hotels and intermediaries, loyalty programs and what lies next for Airbnb - hefty subjects during any time period but especially so during the coronavirus...
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More than 530,000 travel and tourism industry workers laid off or furloughed
By Mitra Sorrells
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April 15, 2020
A new online tool is tracking layoffs, furloughs and pay cuts across the global travel and tourism industry.
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Tracking declines in online travel web traffic as restrictions hit across the globe
By Linda Fox
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April 6, 2020
SimilarWeb has marked a "pivot point" in website traffic to online travel companies when consumer and business behavior changed and traffic declined sharply.
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Corporate travel on the front line of global incidents
By Linda Fox
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March 18, 2020
The corporate travel industry has to deal with an increasing volume of incidents related to weather, terrorism - and now health - that impact travel.
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Looking beyond the coronavirus chicane to accelerate growth for travel
By Apurva Chamaria - RateGain.
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March 16, 2020
This is not the first time in this century that the travel and tourism industry is at the center of a crisis and has to deal with losses and have to adapt and survive.
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Will the coronavirus outbreak force hotels to adapt to new technologies quicker?
By Gregor Amon - Hotel Data Cloud
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March 13, 2020
When it comes to hotels, you can bet that hotel owners and managers are reeling, trying to come up with a plan to address coronavirus, but more importantly, to have strategies to recoup their losses...
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Golden shots and wild cards - how IAG brings startups through Hangar 51
By Linda Fox
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February 26, 2020
In the coming weeks, British Airways parent company IAG will enter the fifth year of its Hangar 51 accelerator program.
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Stand out with creative to win with today’s travel consumers
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February 18, 2020
As machine learning becomes increasingly sophisticated at finding relevant travelers throughout the journey, it’s now more important than ever for advertisers to invest in creative that captures...
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What are the building blocks of direct sales for hotels?
By Pablo Delgado - Mirai
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February 11, 2020
Every single hotel, without any exception, whether large or small, independent or part of a hotel chain, with a good or bad reputation, in the centre or in the suburbs, has significant potential to...
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