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What happens to travel startup funding during an economic downturn?

By Steven Lerner | March 19, 2020

During an economic downturn, startups should go back to basics and focus on positive unit economics. Read More

News / Online

Corporate travel on the front line of global incidents

By Linda Fox | 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. Read More

News / Online

Q&A: Trip.com Group's Jane Sun on weathering the coronavirus storm in China

By Yeoh Siew Hoon - WebInTravel | March 18, 2020

The travel giant's boss talks about the measures taken to get the company through the storm – pay cuts, cancellations guarantees, remote work and providing the right information to customers – and what... Read More

News / Online

Travelers satisfied with airlines during coronavirus, frustrated with insurance providers

By Steven Lerner | March 18, 2020

As travelers are forced to rethink trips due to the COVID-19 coronavirus, airlines are being praised while trip insurance remains a source of frustration. Read More

News / Distribution

Aviation body says coronavirus could bankrupt most airlines in three months

By Linda Fox | March 16, 2020

The membership organization is calling for urgent “coordinated” government and industry action in light of the impact of coronavirus on the travel industry. Read More

News / Distribution

"Nothing will be the same": How Italian hoteliers are coping with coronavirus fallout

By Mitra Sorrells | March 16, 2020

Giancarlo Carniani - Phocuswright analyst, hotelier and president of the hotel association in Florence, Italy - explains why hoteliers are "furious" at Booking.com and why the hospitality industry will... Read More

News / Online

InPhocus, episode 1 - Coronavirus came from nowhere and turned 2020 on its head

By PhocusWire | March 13, 2020

Fronting the show for its debut are PhocusWire's Kevin May and Charuta Fadnis, Phocuswright's head of research. They're joined by their boss and Phocuswright's managing director, Pete Comeau. Read More

Interview / Online

Sounding Off: All that talk about being brilliant communicators should be real

March 13, 2020

Now that marketing is all over the place for a few months, communications has to be the channel that travel brands focus their efforts on. Read More

News / Online

Phocuswright Europe 2020 is still on – just with a new date

By PhocusWire | March 13, 2020

In light of the health threat from COVID-19 and resulting travel restrictions, Phocuswright Europe will now take place on August 4-6, 2020. Read More

News / Online

Digital marketing in the age of coronavirus - what travel brands need to know

By Mitra Sorrells | March 12, 2020

The rapidly changing impacts of the COVID-19 coronavirus require digital travel marketers to evaluate and update their strategies. Read More

News / Technology

Cloudbeds brings in $82M to “triple down” on hospitality tech

By Steven Lerner | March 11, 2020

Cloudbeds plans to further invest in its hospitality management technology platform after landing an additional $82 million in funding. Read More

News / Online

Online booking rates for activities halve and cancellations jump by a fifth due to coronavirus

By Kevin May | March 11, 2020

The gloomy business outcome of the spread of the virus to more than 100 countries around the world, including some of Europe's big tourist hotspots such as Italy, which is now on lockdown, has ignited... Read More

News / Online

Laid-off Expedia Group workers have a message for the current regime

By Steven Lerner | March 11, 2020

A pair of recently downsized Expedia Group employees are shedding some light recent company layoffs and the events that led up to them. Read More

News / Online

My Method... How Visit Santa Barbara changed the DMO influencer game

By Alex Goodwin - Sparkloft Media | March 10, 2020

For Visit Santa Barbara, Sparkloft Media was able to secure strong influencer partners and social representation - without the time-consuming, costly efforts of proactively searching for appropriate... Read More

News / Online

How Singapore Tourism Board is working on a post-coronavirus strategy

By Yeoh Siew Hoon - WebInTravel | March 9, 2020

Some areas of the world are already looking to the future as they seek to rebuild their tourist economies after the outbreak of coronavirus. Read More

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