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

This is a viewpoint by Ara Parikh, product marketing manager for OmniVert. More and more, travel marketers today are using 360° VR Video, whether on Facebook, Snap, YouTube, or other distribution m... Read More

TripAdvisor is betting big on social media with the launch of “the new TripAdvisor” - a revamp of the platform that allows users to connect with fellow travelers as well as brands, publishers and influencers to share content and receive personalized recommendations.... Read More

US-based expense management firm Certify has bought Spain’s Captio, its first acquisition outside North America, as part of its ambitious “multi-brand” expansion plans. Terms of the deal have not b... Read More

Certify acquires Spain-based Captio, its second expansion through M&A in the space of three months during 2018.... Read More

A string of investors have handed HYP3R a $17 million war chest by way of a Series A investment in the company.... Read More

JetBlue Technology Ventures (JTV)  is likely to receive around 2,500 startup pitches this year, everyone of which will be looked at and get a response. Bonny Simi, president, acknowledged a big upt... Read More

eDreams Odigeo talks up success of artificial intelligence to create a more personalized experience for travellers.... Read More

 2018 may be remembered as a tipping point for the digitization of the tours and activities sector within the global travel industry. ... Read More