Top Travel Tech Weekly News

Interview / Online

Sounding Off: OTA version 2.0 is likely to come from outside the travel industry

By PhocusWire | July 17, 2020

The brands that are able to position themselves in this as-yet undetermined role will most likely be all things to all people - selling more than just a form of accommodation and a flight. Read More

News / Online

VIDEO: New Reality With... Peter Kern of Expedia Group

By PhocusWire | July 17, 2020

The next guest on the New Reality With... series is Peter Kern, CEO and vice chairman at Expedia Group, one of the world's largest online travel companies. Read More

News / Technology

InPhocus, episode 18 - Innovators are primed and ready

By PhocusWire | July 17, 2020

The reset that everyone is going through gives startups (already born or just ideas) and new technology an opportunity to make their case. Read More

News / Online

My Method... Building consensus with data in uncertain times for destinations

By John Urdi - Mammoth Lakes Tourism | July 16, 2020

By relying on data in decision-making, some destinations are able to quickly pivot based on the needs of communities and build consensus around those strategic changes. Read More

Interview / Online

How I Got Here, episode 33 - Caitlin Zaino von During of Porter & Sail

By PhocusWire | July 16, 2020

The company launched in 2014 with a vision to provide hotels with a service that could act as a concierge for guests on their devices. But that had to change, she tells Mozio's David Litwak and Kevin... Read More

News / Online

Beyond “vanity metrics”: Why travel marketers need to diversify influencer campaigns

By Jill Menze | July 16, 2020

Diversity in travel influencer marketing has been a problem since the beginning. Here's how brands can fix it. Read More

News / Online

Airbnb claims 1 million nights booked in one day for first time since March 3

By Mitra Sorrells | July 15, 2020

Airbnb says users booked more than one million nights' worth of future stays on July 8, the first time that has happened since the outbreak triggered lockdowns in dozens of countries worldwide. Read More

News / Online

How investors are taking the long view on opportunities in short-term rentals

By Linda Fox | July 15, 2020

Private accommodation has been hard hit by the pandemic, leading some in the investment community to ask whether the size of the opportunity will be as great when the travel industry recovers. Read More

News / Startups

Beekeeper adds $10M to its Series B to fuel growth and product development

By Linda Fox | July 15, 2020

The extra investment brings the total for the round to $60 million, following the original injection and a $5 million top-up in February. Read More

News / Online

Visits to travel sites decline again after reports of more infections

By Linda Fox | July 14, 2020

While all segments had seen month-on-month improvement in website visits and bookings in April and May, travel trends dipped again in June and into July. Read More

News / Technology

New app automates hotel hygiene assessment and marketing

By Mitra Sorrells | July 14, 2020

Hotel technology company GIATA is offering its clients an app-based hygiene assessment based on global standards. Read More

Opinion / Online

"Hope everyone is safe": How 2020 is fostering a culture of safety

By Michael Becker - Geosure | July 13, 2020

Three key elements are necessary to bring every individual their inalienable right of safety, including while traveling. These can not only be described, but quantified. Read More

Interview / Technology

Sounding Off: Collaboration has to be more than a political buzzword

By PhocusWire | July 10, 2020

"Playing politics" with the recovery is not something that is likely to ensure that it runs smoothly, let alone collaboratively. Read More

News / Technology

InPhocus, episode 17 - Destinations, it's over to you now

By PhocusWire | July 10, 2020

With the Destination X series now paused as the industry attempts to get back on its feet (AKA "recovery mode"), we wanted to reflect with its producer Doug Lansky on how the series had been received... Read More