Top Travel Tech Weekly News

Interview / Online

Sounding Off: Uber’s super app push comes at the right time

By PhocusWire | April 8, 2022

Uber is making efforts to capture the door-to-door travel experience – and it might succeed. Read More

News / Online

Smooth online booking key to attracting repeat airline customers

By Jill Menze | April 7, 2022

Travelers are also keen to buy additional airline services from carriers that provide a positive digital booking experience. Read More

News / Online

Groups360 attracts $35M, plots group travel platform expansion

By Linda Fox | April 7, 2022

The investment was led by Zigg Capital and included Blackstone Innovations Investments and Fir Tree Partners. Read More

News / Online

The state of online travel agencies

By Jill Menze | April 7, 2022

A Phocuswright report breaks down the online travel market from 2021 to 2025. Read More

News / Online

Uber goes full super app, adds planes, trains and hotels

By Jill Menze | April 6, 2022

The move is part of a pilot program in the U.K. designed to capture the end-to-end travel journey. Read More

Interview / Online

In The Big Chair - Vivi Cahyadi Himmel of AltoVita

By Jill Menze | April 6, 2022

Vivi Cahyadi Himmel co-founded AltoVita, a platform that powers the corporate accommodations sector with enterprise software layered with a human-centric approach. Read More

News / Online

Everyone hates bots, but the travel industry needs them

By Dr. Eduardo Rocha - GlobalDots | April 5, 2022

A security expert’s take on how travel and bots can peacefully coexist. Read More

Interview / Online

In The Big Chair - Larry Cuculic of Best Western

By Mitra Sorrells | April 4, 2022

Larry Cuculic became president and CEO of BWH Hotel Group in December, after having spent 12 years as the company’s senior vice president and general counsel. Read More

Opinion / Technology

How airlines can improve the post-COVID payment experience

By Kristian Gjerding - CellPoint Digital | April 1, 2022

Airline payment managers can avoid a repeat of the lockdown refund chaos and ensure customers enjoy a turbulence-free payments journey. Read More

News / Online

HomeToGo spends €40M to buy E-Domizil, plots further purchases

By Linda Fox | March 31, 2022

Germany-based e-domizil is said to have more than 370,000 homes across its brands. Read More

News / Technology

Psychology, emotion hold key to extraordinary travel experiences

By Mitra Sorrells | March 31, 2022

Ogilvy vice chairman Rory Sutherland and Immersion founder and neuroeconomist Paul Zak explain how travel brands can tap into human emotions and motivations. Read More

News / Startups

Little change in diversity for director roles of private companies

By Linda Fox | March 30, 2022

Women hold 14% of board seats of the most heavily funded private companies, compared to 11% in 2020. Read More

News / Online

Online travel giants ramped up marketing spend in 2021

By Kevin May | March 30, 2022

The amounts being splashed out on various forms of advertising activity are not at the same levels of 2019, understandably, but the tried and trusted methods are back in vogue. Read More