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Opinion / Online

What happens to rate parity when Airbnb is an online travel agency?

By Gino Engels - OTA Insight | June 11, 2019

As lines blur between platform and provider, there are some real questions around rate parity and price competitiveness in this brave new world. Read More

News / Distribution

Amadeus hits back at IATA over claims of "anticompetitive conduct"

By Linda Fox | June 10, 2019

Amadeus says IATA has created the current situation of adoption of the NDC standard “difficult and costly for the whole industry.” Read More

News / Online

VIDEO: Booking.com on its buy or partner strategy for experiences

By Kevin May | June 10, 2019

Booking.com's semi-official entry into the tours and activities sector was notable for many things - not least why did it take so long. Read More

voyager hq travel disruption summit aviation roundtable

Opinion / Technology

Aviation innovation: Insider perspectives on where the industry goes next

By Voyager HQ | June 10, 2019

Voyager HQ asked individual table moderators from this year’s summit to share some of the most compelling conversations and useful tidbits from their tables and from the day as a whole. Read More

News / Online

Travel payments, part 2: Balancing friction and risk in fighting fraud

By Mitra Sorrells | June 10, 2019

For part two in our series on travel payments, we explore issues related to fraud and how machine learning can help to solve them. Read More

News / Technology

Marketing might be the answer for corporate travel booking tool adoption

By Linda Fox | June 7, 2019

Challenges remain for corporate booking tools, which are having to evolve fast to keep up. Read More

Interview / Technology

In The Big Chair - Jason Morehouse of Checkfront

By Kevin May | June 7, 2019

Since launching in June, 2010, Checkfront has grown from a humble operation in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, to a business that processes over $1 billion in bookings annually, made by tour and... Read More

Nordic Choice on Google Amazon using blockchain

News / Technology

Will Google and Amazon embrace a blockchain travel marketplace?

By Mitra Sorrells | June 7, 2019

Nordic Choice Hotels’ director of future business, Christian Lundén, says blockchain has the potential to disrupt travel distribution by stimulating activity from both startups and large tech players... Read More

News / Technology

Alipay partners with Splyt to bring ride-hailing to Chinese tourists

By Jill Menze | June 5, 2019

The integration will allow Chinese tourists to hail taxis from local transportation providers through Alipay, eliminating the need to download a new app while traveling overseas. Read More

News / Distribution

OYO talks up hospitality chain growth as it expands distribution strategy

By Kevin May | June 4, 2019

OYO Rooms now has distribution deals in place with every major online travel agency around the world. Read More

Opinion / Distribution

Rethinking hotel distribution with attribute-based selling

By Simone Puorto - Simone Puorto Consulting | June 4, 2019

How the development of systems to offer room attributes might impact distribution. Read More

News / Distribution

How Airbnb threatens to disrupt traditional hotel pricing strategies

By Jill Menze | June 4, 2019

A study pitted flexible-capacity Airbnb against the fixed-capacity lodging industry to uncover how the sharing economy has changed hospitality. Read More