Interviews

Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2024: Travlr ID
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Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2024: Travlr ID
By PhocusWire | November 14, 2023
Travlr ID is the world’s first decentralized travel identity and profile network built using blockchain and self-sovereign identity.... Read More
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2024: Turneo
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Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2024: Turneo
By PhocusWire | November 14, 2023
Turneo is an e-commerce platform for hotels and other travel brands that want to offer experiences to their guests. ... Read More
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2024: Unravel
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Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2024: Unravel
By PhocusWire | November 14, 2023
Unravel is a shoppable video feed of the world's most instagrammable experiences - an “embedded travel” platform that combines the serendipitous discovery of TikTok with the utility of Expedia. ... Read More
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2024: Venus Aerospace
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Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2024: Venus Aerospace
By PhocusWire | November 14, 2023
Venus Aerospace is a hypersonics company on track to fly reusable hypersonic flight platforms by 2024.... Read More
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2024: Weeva
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Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2024: Weeva
By PhocusWire | November 14, 2023
Weeva is a pioneering software-as-a-service platform designed to democratize access to cutting-edge sustainability management tools for the travel/tourism industry.... Read More
Where next for Etraveli with Booking.com deal off the table?
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Where next for Etraveli with Booking.com deal off the table?
By Linda Fox | November 8, 2023
Following a veto by European regulators of the Booking.com-Etraveli acquisition, Etraveli CEO Mathias Hedlund talks about what’s next for the company, growth opportunities and its focus on flights.... Read More
STARTUP STAGE: FinMont seeks to help airline and OTA revenues take off
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STARTUP STAGE: FinMont seeks to help airline and OTA revenues take off
By Mitra Sorrells | October 27, 2023
FinMont helps travel merchants optimize their payment strategy by reducing the overall payment cost and increasing the acceptance rate globally.... Read More
STARTUP STAGE: Crewfare aims to make booking event and group travel easy
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STARTUP STAGE: Crewfare aims to make booking event and group travel easy
By Mitra Sorrells | October 11, 2023
Crewfare is a customizable group travel booking platform offering events, festivals, sports and brands with the ability to capitalize on travel while providing attendees with a streamlined and simpler booking solution.  ... Read More
AI Insights: Generative AI to enhance vacation rental software Lodgify
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AI Insights: Generative AI to enhance vacation rental software Lodgify
By PhocusWire | October 9, 2023
Lodgify's co-founder and CEO Dennis Klett answers our questions about how the company is working with generative AI.... Read More
CEO Spotlight - Brett Keller of Priceline
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CEO Spotlight - Brett Keller of Priceline
By Linda Fox | September 27, 2023
PhocusWire talks to Priceline CEO Brett Keller about the company's partnership with Google, the hype around generative artificial intelligence and treading its own path versus other Booking Holdings brands.... Read More
AI Insights: Generative AI to enhance the guest booking and stay experience
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AI Insights: Generative AI to enhance the guest booking and stay experience
By PhocusWire | September 19, 2023
The Ascott's Tan Bee Leng answers our questions about the areas the hotel and serviced apartment company is applying generative artificial intelligence technology to.... Read More
CEO Spotlight - Johannes Thomas of Trivago
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CEO Spotlight - Johannes Thomas of Trivago
By Linda Fox | September 14, 2023
PhocusWire talks to Trivago CEO Johannes Thomas about coming back to the metasearch platform, his first 100 days in the role and priorities going forward.... Read More
Steve Hafner on why Kayak is going deeper into business travel
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Steve Hafner on why Kayak is going deeper into business travel
By Mitra Sorrells | September 12, 2023
Kayak has more than 30,000 companies using it's free corporate travel tool for small- and medium-sized businesses and is now going after larger enterprises with a new product developed for PwC.... Read More
STARTUP STAGE: Tango targets “mass affluent” travelers with AI-based booking platform
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STARTUP STAGE: Tango targets “mass affluent” travelers with AI-based booking platform
By Mitra Sorrells | September 11, 2023
Tango combines artificial intelligence, machine learning and human curation to provide design, booking and servicing of hyper-personalized trips. ... Read More
AI Insights: Generative AI across airline operations
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AI Insights: Generative AI across airline operations
By PhocusWire | September 7, 2023
Lufthansa Digital Hangar's Christian Spannbauer answers our questions about the areas the airline group is applying generative artificial intelligence technology to.... Read More