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Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2025: NomadHer
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Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2025: NomadHer
By PhocusWire | November 11, 2024
NomadHer is the community app for solo female travelers, encouraging safe travel.... Read More
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2025: Obvlo
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Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2025: Obvlo
By PhocusWire | November 11, 2024
Obvlo is an AI solution for producing and maintaining personalized local content for any destination on earth.... Read More
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2025: PassiveBolt
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Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2025: PassiveBolt
By PhocusWire | November 11, 2024
PassiveBolt is revolutionizing the hospitality industry with KeyShare, a universal, decentralized identity platform.... Read More
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2025: TourOptima
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Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2025: TourOptima
By PhocusWire | November 11, 2024
TourOptima provides a communication platform for tour operators that reaches guests wherever they are.... Read More
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2025: Tripesa
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Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2025: Tripesa
By PhocusWire | November 11, 2024
Tripesa is building shopify for tourism to help small businesses.... Read More
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2025: Tripstax
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Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2025: Tripstax
By PhocusWire | November 11, 2024
TripStax is a fully connected modular stack of proprietary business travel applications, powered by a central data processing architecture that consumes, enriches and manages all business traveler booking, profile and invoice data.... Read More
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2025: Trustd.ai
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Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2025: Trustd.ai
By PhocusWire | November 11, 2024
Trustd.ai has developed a customizable AI platform designed to tackle the trust and safety challenges within the Short Term Rental (STR) sector. ... Read More
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2025: Turpal
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Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2025: Turpal
By PhocusWire | November 11, 2024
Turpal is a Dubai-based startup enabling travel companies to offer tours, activities and attractions, with access to thousands of experiences in more than 100 countries.... Read More
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2025: Zatlas
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Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2025: Zatlas
By PhocusWire | November 11, 2024
Zatlas is a Vertical SaaS platform for hotels, trusted by the largest hotel chains across the Americas. ... Read More
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2025: ZentrumHub
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Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2025: ZentrumHub
By PhocusWire | November 11, 2024
ZentrumHub is a travel technology platform that helps OTAs connect with suppliers globally through a universal API connection.... Read More
Presenting the Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2025
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Presenting the Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2025
By PhocusWire | November 11, 2024
PhocusWire presents the Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2025 - our annual list of new companies in travel, tourism and hospitality we believe will make a mark on the industry in the coming months and years.... Read More
PhocusWire's weekly travel tech news briefs: Sabre, Amex GBT, BlaBlaCar and more
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PhocusWire's weekly travel tech news briefs: Sabre, Amex GBT, BlaBlaCar and more
By PhocusWire | November 8, 2024
Keep up with all the latest people, product and partner news from around the global travel industry in PhocusWire's weekly roundup.... Read More
Airbnb’s Icons, group travel features have contributed to 1.7 million new profiles since May
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Airbnb’s Icons, group travel features have contributed to 1.7 million new profiles since May
By Morgan Hines | November 7, 2024
Airbnb saw $3.7 billion in revenue in Q3 this year, a 10% increase compared to Q3 2023, while adjusted EBITDA was up 7% year-over-year to $2 billion.... Read More
Expedia Group B2B revenue jumps 18% in Q3, far outpacing B2C
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Expedia Group B2B revenue jumps 18% in Q3, far outpacing B2C
By Mitra Sorrells | November 7, 2024
Total revenue in the quarter was up 3% year over year to $4.1 billion, but along with strength in the B2B business the company noted an acceleration in B2C bookings and a return to growth for Vrbo.... Read More
When travelers want digital vs. human interaction
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When travelers want digital vs. human interaction
By PhocusWright Research | November 7, 2024
  According to Phocuswright’s latest travel research report, travelers are not ready to give up the human touch when traveling, especially when it comes to customer service.... Read More
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