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What's the point? Finding new opportunities to earn loyalty in travel

By Marisa Garcia | January 13, 2025

A panel on loyalty in travel at The Phocuswright Conference featured executives from AirAsia Move, Capital One and Hilton who discussed what drives loyalty and the importance of understanding customer... Read More

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Tripadvisor partners with Perplexity to improve trip planning

By Linda Fox | January 9, 2025

The partnership sees the integration of Tripadvisor’s reviews, AI generated summaries and more than 300,000 experiences from Viator with Perplexity’s chatbot-style search capabilities. Read More

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As travel digital ID concepts mature, experts discuss the challenges

By Mark Frary | January 9, 2025

The importance of collaboration, standardization and combining AI with SSID was discussed during a panel at The Phocuswright Conference. Read More

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Delta provides glimpse at future with digital assistant

By Morgan Hines | January 8, 2025

Delta Air Lines is rolling out capabilities of its new Delta Concierge, which will provide "contextual insights" for travelers and link with partners including Joby and Uber to enable a multimodal,... Read More

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Travel veterans discuss mega deal potential, AI fatigue and technical deficit

By Linda Fox | January 7, 2025

Predicting travel's future isn't easy with so many external factors impacting the industry, but executives including SilverRail Technologies' Aaron Gowell, Phocuswright's Lorraine Sileo and T2Impact's... Read More

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Why AI agents will supercharge, not bypass, OTAs

By Mario Gavira | January 6, 2025

Mario Gavira discusses how established online travel intermediaries could thrive in the era of agentic AI as they leverage the tech foundations and financial models they have spent years developing. Read More

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Opportunity rising in tours, activities as interest in experiences continues

By Morgan Hines | January 3, 2025

The desire to make ensure the experiences a traveler wants are available to book continues to be a priority. Read More

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Travel industry leaders' predictions for 2025

By Morgan Hines | January 2, 2025

Executives from Travelport, Klook, Cloudbeds, Spotnana, Mews and more share their predictions for the year ahead, including their takes on artificial intelligence, search, funding and more. Read More

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STR management company Casago acquires much larger — but struggling — Vacasa

By Mitra Sorrells | December 30, 2024

Since going public in December 2021, Vacasa has struggled with a drop in inventory and revenue, executive departures and multiple rounds of layoffs. Read More

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Corporate travel executives discuss AI hype and efficiency gains

By Linda Fox | December 30, 2024

Amex GBT's vice president of AI strategy and the founder of business travel AI startup Otto discuss the rapid pace of development with AI and where the real potential lies. Read More

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The move from legacy models to delightful experiences

By Marisa Garcia | December 24, 2024

Executives from Despegar, Meili and Wego discuss the complexity in travel and the hope for AI to solve some of the challenges at The Phocuswright Conference 2024. Read More

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Despegar acquired by Naspers-owned Prosus for $1.7B

By Linda Fox | December 23, 2024

The Dutch company invests in technology companies across multiple verticals and said, with this transaction, it will serve more than 100-million customers in Latin America across travel, e-commerce and... Read More

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Tripadvisor to merge with Liberty Tripadvisor in $435M deal

By Mitra Sorrells | December 19, 2024

The companies announced the merger Thursday morning and the deal is expected to close in the second quarter of 2025. Read More

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Travel's movers, shakers and newsmakers in 2024

By PhocusWire | December 18, 2024

These are the trends and topics in travel that have made headlines in 2024 and that we expect to hear more about in 2025. Read More

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Hostaway raises $365M for AI, product development and expansion

By Linda Fox | December 17, 2024

The property management technology company has landed the funding from General Atlantic and previous investor PSG at a valuation of $925 million. Read More

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