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Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2024: Kindred
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Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2024: Kindred
By PhocusWire | November 14, 2023
By sharing their places with those they trust, Kindred members unlock a lifestyle richer with travel and human connection, staying in vetted, comfortable homes for a fraction of the cost of a rental.... Read More
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2024: Legends
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Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2024: Legends
By PhocusWire | November 14, 2023
Legends powers a new era of personalization in travel by transforming phone and photo data into preference profiles to help providers improve revenue, loyalty and experience. ... Read More
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2024: SquadTrip
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Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2024: SquadTrip
By PhocusWire | November 14, 2023
SquadTrip’s B2B software-as-a-service helps travel agents save time managing group with an all-in-one marketing, booking and payment platform.... Read More
Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2024: The Host Co.
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Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2024: The Host Co.
By PhocusWire | November 14, 2023
The Host Co. transforms short-term rentals into full service hospitality by adding instant concierge amenities: from spa and chef to in-rental shopping and beyond. ... Read More
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
Presenting the Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2024
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Presenting the Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2024
By PhocusWire | November 14, 2023
The Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2024, sponsored by Allianz Partners US, includes eight companies founded in 2020, with another five founded in 2021 and four in 2022.   ... Read More
Expedia Group, Booking on coming together with “one voice” to support short-term rentals
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Expedia Group, Booking on coming together with “one voice” to support short-term rentals
By Mitra Sorrells | November 13, 2023
Expedia Group's Tim Rosolio and Booking.com's Ben Harrell spoke about working together to address regulatory challenges, the benefits that Google provides to the sector and strategies to drive more bookings.... Read More
Diversity in leadership session helps start The Phocuswright Conference
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Diversity in leadership session helps start The Phocuswright Conference
By Derek Catron | November 13, 2023
Research has consistently shown that the relationship between diversity on executive teams and the likelihood of financial outperformance has strengthened over time.  ... Read More
Will these 5 U.S. consumer trends continue into 2024?
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Will these 5 U.S. consumer trends continue into 2024?
By Phocuswright Research | November 13, 2023
Phocuswright’s U.S. Consumer Travel Report 2023 provides a snapshot of American travelers’ recent behavior and travel sentiment in the post-pandemic environment.  ... Read More
Earnings roundup: Vacasa, HomeToGo, Amex GBT and Despegar
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Earnings roundup: Vacasa, HomeToGo, Amex GBT and Despegar
By Linda Fox | November 10, 2023
A roundup of the third quarter 2023 earnings for travel companies, including Amex GBT, Despegar and HomeToGo.... Read More
More than one-third of leisure travelers have used GenAI tools, report says
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More than one-third of leisure travelers have used GenAI tools, report says
By Morgan Hines | November 10, 2023
More than half of leisure travelers who have used generative artificial intelligence planning tools booked most or all of the recommendations provided by the chatbot.... Read More
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