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welcome app startup stage
Interview / Technology
STARTUP STAGE: Welcome uses AI to make trip planning more spontaneous and personalized
By Jill Menze | June 12, 2019
Welcome uses artificial intelligence to help travelers plan in real time based on their preferences, tips from friends and location data.... Read More
WEBINAR REPLAY! The hotel guest of the future
News / Technology
WEBINAR REPLAY! The hotel guest of the future
By PhocusWire | June 11, 2019
To further understand the drivers of change in hospitality, Amadeus, Cornell University and InterContinental Hotels Group conducted an exclusive study, revealed here in this webinar.... Read More
TripActions United NDC integration
News / Distribution
TripActions launches NDC platform in partnership with United Airlines
By Mitra Sorrells | June 11, 2019
The business travel platform is launching an end-to-end flight shopping and booking experience integrated with IATA’s NDC industry standard.... Read More
travelsky-atpco
News / Distribution
TravelSky adds Routehappy passenger content via latest deal with ATPCO
By Linda Fox | June 11, 2019
The deal covers the Routehappy content as well as other ATPCO retailing solutions including the Next Generation Storefront standards that are currently being developed.... Read More
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News / Distribution
VIDEO: Teenage years still to come for NDC, patience required
By Linda Fox | June 11, 2019
New Distribution Capability (NDC) has broadly been accepted as a positive step in bringing value, and eventually greater efficiency, to the airline distribution chain. But, it’s not an overnight process.... Read More
Alipay European e-wallet partnership
News / Technology
Alipay partners with European e-wallets to promote QR-code payments
By Mitra Sorrells | June 11, 2019
Alipay and six European digital wallet companies are partnering to create a QR-code payment option that works across all platforms.... Read More
Booking Holdings funds part of $180M round into South Korean hotel site Yanolja
News / Online
Booking Holdings funds part of $180M round into South Korean hotel site Yanolja
By Kevin May | June 11, 2019
The South Korea-based hotel booking website has now secured a total of $242 million in funding after landing the latest Series D round.... Read More
What happens to rate parity when Airbnb is an online travel agency?
Opinion / Online
What happens to rate parity when Airbnb is an online travel agency?
By Gino Engels - OTA Insight | June 11, 2019
As lines blur between platform and provider, there are some real questions around rate parity and price competitiveness in this brave new world.... Read More
IATA-GDS-NDC
News / Distribution
Amadeus hits back at IATA over claims of "anticompetitive conduct"
By Linda Fox | June 10, 2019
Amadeus says IATA has created the current situation of adoption of the NDC standard “difficult and costly for the whole industry.” ... Read More
VIDEO: Booking.com on its buy or partner strategy for experiences
News / Online
VIDEO: Booking.com on its buy or partner strategy for experiences
By Kevin May | June 10, 2019
Booking.com's semi-official entry into the tours and activities sector was notable for many things - not least why did it take so long.... Read More
voyager hq travel disruption summit aviation roundtable
Opinion / Technology
Aviation innovation: Insider perspectives on where the industry goes next
By Voyager HQ | June 10, 2019
Voyager HQ asked individual table moderators from this year’s summit to share some of the most compelling conversations and useful tidbits from their tables and from the day as a whole.... Read More
Payments month part 2 fraud
News / Online
Travel payments, part 2: Balancing friction and risk in fighting fraud
By Mitra Sorrells | June 10, 2019
For part two in our series on travel payments, we explore issues related to fraud and how machine learning can help to solve them.... Read More
Sounding Off: It's all about making consumers' lives easier
Interview / Online
Sounding Off: It's all about making consumers' lives easier
By PhocusWire | June 7, 2019
It's not quite "one app to rule them all" but ultra-simplicity is perhaps where the travel app marketplace could be heading.... Read More
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News / Technology
Marketing might be the answer for corporate travel booking tool adoption
By Linda Fox | June 7, 2019
Challenges remain for corporate booking tools, which are having to evolve fast to keep up.... Read More
Collaboration, not competition, can make the travel industry a digital leader
Opinion / Technology
Collaboration, not competition, can make the travel industry a digital leader
By Rom Hendler - InnoVel | June 7, 2019
Travel, intangible and evolving, is a perfect example of a product particularly vulnerable to marketing myopia. So we should fix it, as an industry together.... Read More
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