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Interview / Online

Q&A: Tujia CBO Jennifer Li on Chinese homestays, overseas growth, Airbnb

By Jill Menze | February 26, 2019

The former CEO of Ctrip’s homestay business explains Tujia’s growth strategy, its relationship with Ctrip and SiteMinder and the home-share opportunities in China and beyond. Read More

News / Distribution

Customer details stolen from Amadeus distributor in India

By Linda Fox | February 25, 2019

Customer information was stolen from Resbird Technologies, an independent distributor for Amadeus in India, in January 2019 by a local employee. Read More

News / Distribution

China, part 4: The digital distribution model

By Mitra Sorrells | February 25, 2019

For the final piece in our China theme month, we explore the diverse digital distribution landscape. Read More

News / Distribution

Travelport posts final full-year results ahead of sale to private equity

By Kevin May | February 22, 2019

Travelport passed the $2.5 billion annual revenue mark for the first time in its history during 2018. But it will soon head back to the land of private equity ownership. Read More

Interview / Online

Sounding Off: Being able to shift ad budgets will please all in travel (except Google)

By PhocusWire | February 22, 2019

Travel brands will consider the rise of effective social media advertising as a welcome break from the stranglehold they often feel from the search engine giant. Read More

News / Online

What's on the minds of 600+ travel marketers? Personalization - and Facebook

By Jill Menze | February 21, 2019

Sojern's massive survey of more of travel marketers identifies key challenges and priorities for advertisers in 2019. Read More

News / Technology

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

News / Online

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

News / Online

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

News / Distribution

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

News / Online

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

Distribution

Dynamic pricing for airlines - its role in digital retail thinking

By Alan Dunne - Datalex | February 17, 2019

Dynamic pricing is often thought of as the ability to offer a product at different price points - it is really a set of evolving pricing strategies that enables the price to be dynamically determined in... 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