Distribution

Opinion / Distribution

Investigation: Hotels and online agencies battle on three fronts (Part One)

By Robert Cole - RockCheetah | January 5, 2018

Don’t be fooled, despite the occasionally cordial "partnering" rhetoric between the major hotel brands and OTAs, this is an existential battle. Read More

News / Technology

Looming GDPR deadline tops list of challenges for travel tech buyers

By Mitra Sorrells | January 5, 2018

With less than five months until the massive new privacy regulation known as GDPR goes into effect, travel technology buyers say compliance with the complicated rules is their biggest challenge of 2018. Read More

News / Online

How travel giants are retaining confidence of investors

By Mitra Sorrells | January 4, 2018

The Priceline Group and Expedia Inc. are tipped for another strong year ahead, according to two independent financial analysts. Read More

News / Online

Booking.com and Hotels.com gain from TripAdvisor switch

By Kevin May | January 3, 2018

TripAdvisor's scaling back of Instant Booking in 2017 has seen two major hotel intermediaries benefit. Read More

Opinion / Distribution

PhocusWire Forecast 2018: Hotel issues to sharpen

By Dori Stein - Fornova | December 28, 2017

2018 will be another busy year in the distribution space, as hotels and online travel agencies continue to dance and spar. Read More

News / Online

Didi raises another multi-billion dollar round

By Kevin May | December 27, 2017

There are very few companies that would raise $5.5 billion, and then just over six months later bring in another $4 billion. Read More

News / Online

Booking.com adds packages, rail and cruises

By Kevin May | December 22, 2017

Booking.com has quietly started testing partnerships for other travel products, including package trips via a deal with Lastminute.com. Read More

News / Technology

QOTW: Something to do with those Gatekeepers

By PhocusWire | December 22, 2017

Quote from Kieron Branagan, CEO at OpenJaw Technologies. Read More

Opinion / Online

PhocusWire Forecast 2018: Our view on Online

By PhocusWire | December 21, 2017

The state of online travel as we leave 2017 and enter 2018 couldn’t be more fascinating and yet still fairly difficult to gauge. Read More

Opinion / Technology

PhocusWire Forecast 2018: Our view on Technology

By PhocusWire | December 20, 2017

The problem with technology as a term in the travel industry is that it’s now so ubiquitous that it becomes difficult to single out what developments are the most important for 2018. Read More

Opinion / Technology

PhocusWire Forecast 2018: Seven challenges for airlines

By Kieron Branagan - OpenJaw Technologies | December 20, 2017

There are a common themes, indeed, common challenges that we at OpenJaw find when we meeting with our clients around the world. Read More

Opinion / Distribution

PhocusWire Forecast 2018: Our view on Distribution

By PhocusWire | December 19, 2017

Airline distribution was always a complex - but fairly unexciting - discipline until a few years ago. Read More

News / Technology

OTA Insight brings in $20M round for hospitality tech

By Kevin May | December 18, 2017

Hospitality data intelligence provider OTA Insight has secured a major funding round - $20 million - in a bid to grow the company faster on a global basis. Read More

Notated News / Distribution

CWT, Amadeus, Sabre and other news briefs today...

By PhocusWire | December 18, 2017

In our latest wrap-up of news in brief: CWT distribution hire... Malaysia Airlines and Amadeus... Sabre and Alaska Airlines renew deal... Star Alliance connects to Plug & Play... Travelport PCI... Read More