Google has enhanced its flight and hotel search capabilities ahead of the U.S. holiday travel season, while concurrently announcing that it has started offering exclusive hotel discounts to paying users of Google One cloud storage.... Read More

Fareportal has become the first consumer booking channel to integrate Routehappy’s Universal Product Attributes into its flight seat maps.  ... Read More

Etihad Airways has announced a partnership with payments technology startup Modo on "a unique loyalty redemption solution" for the airline industry. Dallas-based Modo specializes in creating intero... Read More

This is a viewpoint by James Pazhavila, travel analytical lead at Microsoft. After peaking in 2015 and then tapering off through 2017, data indicates that the number of inbound travelers to the US... Read More

Smart and never short of an opinion or two (or ten), Kayak's leader since the outset features in an executive interview at The Phocuswright Conference 2018.... Read More

For the final piece in our month-long series on startups, we gathered learnings from three companies that have been purchased in recent years.... Read More

Travello, an Australian-based social networking app for travellers, has closed an A$5 million ($3.7 million) funding round, earmarking the cash for product, engineering, customer care and marketing.... Read More

Sponsored by EyeForTravel A day in the life of somebody dealing with hotel distribution involves fighting lot of fires. “I think distribution teams are becoming more like guardians for rate an... Read More

Toyota and Uber will work together to develop self-driving cars, and the agreement comes with a $500 million investment in Uber by the Japanese automaker.... Read More

This is a viewpoint by Ritchie Brett, strategist at experience design studio 383. The way we’ve come to use the term ‘disruption’ in recent years has in many ways become a distraction. The fact is,... Read More

The real estate on Google's search engine results pages has changed dramatically over the course of the last decade.  ... Read More

High-end rental network platform Sonder has raised a Series C round of investment to the tune of $85 million.... Read More

There is some irony to the fact that, when it comes to arranging their leisure tours and activities, travelers often have little choice but to reserve and book offline.... Read More

PopulStay is a booking and property management platform for vacation rentals that uses blockchain to create a direct connection between hosts and guests and to lower transaction costs.  ... Read More

Quote from Terry Jones, chairman of WayBlazer, in an article on PhocusWire this week.... Read More