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Interview / Startups
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2023: Chooose
By PhocusWire | November 15, 2022
Chooose is the all-in-one platform to bring climate action into every customer experience. Read More
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2023: Fairlyne
Interview / Startups
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2023: Fairlyne
By PhocusWire | November 15, 2022
As a white label SaaS, Fairlyne allows companies to offer a re-commerce experience to their visitors and customers on their own direct channel.   Read More
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Interview / Startups
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2023: Flycoin
By PhocusWire | November 15, 2022
Flycoin’s technology infrastructure provides companies in the consumer loyalty space with a turnkey solution to incentivize users in a more customer-centric way. Read More
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Interview / Startups
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2023: GauVendi
By PhocusWire | November 15, 2022
GauVendi is a sales and revenue system for hospitality that breaks away from static room type inventory management and introduces dynamic and feature-based inventory management. Read More
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Interview / Startups
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2023: Grapevine
By PhocusWire | November 15, 2022
Grapevine identifies missed retailing opportunities from booking data, then sends personalized “right time, right channel” recommendations that deliver value to travelers and revenue for travel... Read More
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Interview / Startups
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2023: Hotelverse
By PhocusWire | November 15, 2022
Hotelverse seeks to disintermediate hotel sales by providing a value proposition that cannot be replicated by the intermediary channel. Read More
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2023: NeoKe
Interview / Startups
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2023: NeoKe
By PhocusWire | November 15, 2022
NeoKe is a digital identity infrastructure empowering friction-free travel around the world. Read More
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2023: Selfbook
Interview / Startups
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2023: Selfbook
By PhocusWire | November 15, 2022
Selfbook increases conversions and boosts revenue by providing a seamless checkout experience and accepting digital wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay. Read More
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Interview / Startups
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2023: StatusMatch
By PhocusWire | November 15, 2022
StatusMatch is a service that enables major airline and hotel brands to acquire new high-value customers through a structured, co-branded platform. Read More
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Interview / Startups
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2023: Swayed
By PhocusWire | November 15, 2022
By using guests’ device location, behavioral and transactional data, Swayed builds real-time intelligence on how people are spending time and money during their stay and then sends contextual and... Read More
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Interview / Startups
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2023: Zytlyn
By PhocusWire | November 15, 2022
Zytlyn allows companies to control the future with predictive insights, to improve decision making, while redefining commercial planning and operations across the travel industries.   Read More
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News / Technology
Amadeus looks to payments opportunity, unveils Outpayce subsidiary
By Linda Fox | November 14, 2022
Amadeus is establishing a separate payments business called Outpayce for its B2B payments as well its merchant services. Read More
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News / Online
Uber adds Viator content, expands Uber Travel to 10K cities
By Mitra Sorrells | November 14, 2022
The Uber app now enables booking of a curated collection of Viator experiences in 14 cities around the United States, with the bookings fully managed by Viator.  Read More
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Where are they now? Revisiting the Hot 25 Startups for 2022
By Kathryn Walson | November 11, 2022
In preparation for Tuesday's publication of PhocusWire's Hot 25 Travel Startup for 2023, we checked in with the companies that made the cut one year ago. Read More
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News / Online
Earnings roundup: Amex GBT, Sonder, Vacasa
By Mitra Sorrells | November 11, 2022
As publicly traded travel companies continue to report their third quarter 2022 earnings, we round up the latest reports. Read More
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