With last week’s rapid-fire announcements, Airbnb has joined the ranks of ‘companies that freak the industry out,’ such as Google. Just observe reactions to Google’s latest move in travel: Google is c... Read More

Hotel Bonanza is a new online travel agency trying to disrupt the hold large companies such as Booking.com and Expedia have on the market, by charging hotels a lower commission and offering consumers discounted rates.  ... Read More

Lugging luggage around an unfamiliar city is one of travel's less enjoyable moments. Especially with a nighttime flight, bags can quickly dampen the spirit of one last day in a place. And when the day... Read More

Those whose first introduction to artificial intelligence was the disembodied voice and menacing red cyclops eye of HAL in the Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey, w... Read More

Researchers at Chinese search giant Baidu have created an artificial intelligence they claim can learn to accurately mimic your voice — based on less than a minute’s worth of listening to it.... Read More

Hoteliers may fear the continued automation and digitisation of the sector but are accepting that they should embrace elements of it rather than resisting change in its entirety.... Read More

Let me start by saying that dynamic pricing isn’t something new. In fact its origins go way, way back to the midst of time, when pricing was simply influenced by supply and demand.... Read More

This is a viewpoint from David Turnbull, founder and chief commercial officer for SnapShot. Mark Twain’s famous “If I had more time” quotation could be updated and applied to the current generation... Read More

With more than 963 million active users each month, WeChat is the leading social media app in China.  ... Read More

Google has released Hangouts Chat – a collaboration tool widely called Google’s competitor to Slack – and Kayak is one of several companies that have built bots that are integrated with the Chat platform.   ... Read More

Glenn Fogel, chief executive of Booking Holdings, formerly Priceline Group, hailed a good year for the company as it posted healthy fourth quarter results for 2017 with gross travel bookings up 19% ye... Read More

This is a viewpoint from Matt Walker, chief storyteller at LikeWhere Netflix knows something about you. Something that you don’t know about yourself, or at least you will not admit: You are poor at... Read More

The spending habits of Chinese tourists abroad is the subject of an Outbound Chinese Tourism and Consumption Trends survey by Alipay. Chinese Tourists’ mobile habits set expectations for mobile payme... Read More

There's one huge problem on the horizon for blockchain: Europe's privacy push in the shape of its General Data Protection Law.... Read More

Booking Holdings – the new name for what was Priceline Group – showed significant growth across all sectors in 2017, with most key metrics up around 20%.... Read More