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Travelers have big frustrations with in-destination services online

By Linda Fox | February 20, 2019

The Destination X study from Amadeus spoke to 1,000 travelers about their frustrations with services and products, as well as how to access them. Read More

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Egencia adds hotel chat, package booking features to business travel platform

By Jill Menze | February 20, 2019

Egencia is rolling out platform updates to benefit both business travelers and travel managers. Read More

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Lonely Planet buys ArrivalGuides, plots industry partnership model

By Linda Fox | February 19, 2019

Age-old guidebook-turned-digital travel content brand Lonely Planet buys ArrivalGuides as it looks to forge B2B partnerships. Read More

News / Startups

China, part 3: The state of the travel startup ecosystem

By Mitra Sorrells | February 19, 2019

William Bao Bean of SOSV, Lio Chen of Plug & Play and Margaret Feng of Ctrip's Oasis Lab talk to us about China's startup ecosystem. Read More

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Home-sharing is ready to write its second chapter

By Christina Jelski - Travel Weekly | February 18, 2019

Startups are mounting fresh challenges to both traditional hotels, whose forays into the home-rental space have met with mixed results, and to a maturing Airbnb, which is showing signs of evolving its... Read More

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Four notable trends and stories impacting the airline sector right now

By Phocuswright Research | February 18, 2019

A look at the four most notable trends and stories that are impacting the U.S. airline segment in 2019. Read More

Interview / Online

Sounding Off: Digitalization can help remove mafia tag from tours and activities

By PhocusWire | February 15, 2019

Removing manual process (such as cash) and historic (perhaps unfair) relationships between supplier and the concierge as intermediary should ultimately benefit the consumer. Read More

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Hilton maintains focus on direct relationships as growth outstrips agency channel

By Linda Fox | February 14, 2019

Hilton boosted its loyalty program by 14 million members in 2018 and continues to focus on direct relationships. Read More

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Phocuswright Europe 2019 - sessions revealed, speaker lineup growing

By PhocusWire | February 14, 2019

A stellar lineup of speakers and debates, revolving around the theme of Empires On Edge, will take place over the course of two days in the Dutch city. Read More

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Shiji continues buying spree with acquisition of visual distribution platform Ice Portal

By Jill Menze | February 14, 2019

To help its hotel clients curate and distribute visual content, Shiji Group has acquired Ice Portal. Read More

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Sabre bullish for the year ahead, rounds out 2018 with revenue close to $4BN

By Linda Fox | February 12, 2019

Sabre says it's confident of growth in revenue for 2019 as it announces 2018 full-year figures. Read More

News / Technology

A practical guide for affordable virtual reality productions in travel

By Jamie Biesiada - Travel Weekly | February 12, 2019

VR has one big downside: Creating professional-level content is expensive - some might say prohibitively expensive. Read More

News / Online

Travel websites losing billions as shoppers abandon purchases

By Linda Fox | February 11, 2019

An eye-watering estimate of $2.4 billion was lost in online revenue on websites during the fourth quarter of 2018. Read More

News / Online

China, part 2: A conversation with Ctrip founder James Liang

By Mitra Sorrells | February 11, 2019

For part two of our China theme month, we talk to Ctrip co-founder and chairman James Liang about the company's growth and future plans. Read More

Interview / Online

Sounding Off: China is treading a path of ideas for others to follow

By PhocusWire | February 8, 2019

Hardware and software providers may have been inspired in part by some of their counterparts in the West but China is arguably at the bleeding edge of pulling it all together for the sake of the user. Read More

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