Mr & Mrs Smith and Much Better Adventures discuss why they decided to go down the crowdfunding route.... Read More

Ctrip, the Chinese-based NASDAQ-listed OTA and the world’s second largest travel company, has officially launched a rail app for the UK market, TrainPal. Amy Wei, group general manager of internati... Read More

Hospitality tech provider Infor has snapped up Canada-based Vivonet - pushing its portfolio of tools for hotels into food and beverage.... Read More

Make It Social has gone back to basics and revamped its social check-out technology... Read More

Chinese residents born after 1990 are fueling a surge in international travel, with a preference for local experiences, independent accommodations and long-haul destination.  ... Read More

A new study by online travel agency eDreams ODIGEO looks into the emotional drivers that motivate European’s to travel. Based on findings of an IPSOS survey of over 3,600 people across seven Europe... Read More

Edreams Odigeo is employing eye-tracking as well as biometric scanning technology to help it improve the customer experience.... Read More

Ever wondered how far search giant Google wants to take consumers in its quest to dominate the accommodation sector? More evidence is emerging...... Read More

India’s tech-enabled hotel group OYO has announced plans to enter the UK market, its first move outside South Asia, starting with four properties in London. OYO is the largest hospitality chain in... Read More

About five years ago, Marc Andreessen, creator of Netscape and a serial investor in platforms such as Pinterest, Foursquare and Business Insider, declared the future of offline retail to be dead.... Read More

This is a roundup of announcements related to people moves and business expansions in travel in September 2018 19 September 2018 OnTheBeach Group bets on new CTO The UK-listed beach holiday... Read More

Shiji Group, a provider of technology for the hotel, retail and entertainment industries, has acquired StayNTouch.... Read More

TripAdvisor has announced plans to relaunch as a "travel feed", a personalized social media mash-up that delivers to members familiar Twitter-esque, Facebook-like pages. For TripAdvisor, it is creatin... Read More

The founder of Orbitz, CEO of Swiss, senior executive at American Airlines and Sabre - Katz has seen and done it all, and now he joins us for an executive roundtable on corporate travel at The Phocuswright Conference 2018.... Read More

A new online travel agency focused on the cruise industry has a unique goal – to help travelers find and book one-way itineraries, in effect using cruise ships as the means of travel one from destination to the next.   ... Read More