These are some of the people PhocusWire has identified as playing key roles in the past year — and figure to be among those to watch in the year to come.  ... Read More

HomeToGo announces it has acquired a majority stake in KMW Reisen GmbH and Super Urlaub GmbH in an effort to bolster its marketplace with themed travel package options.... Read More

In a wide-ranging conversation at The Phocuswright Conference, leaders from Microsoft, Priceline and Amadeus discussed opportunities generative AI presents to the travel industry and how it's changing the industry already.... Read More

Smartpricing uses its proprietary algorithm to process data on market, price as well as hotel historic data to help hoteliers increase turnover.... Read More

Aurélie Krau of #MissionNomad and Evan Konwiser of AmEx GBT joined Vanessa Karel of Greether to discuss the program in the PhocusWire studio.  ... Read More

ChatGPT, the Hot 25 Travel Startups and news about major players like Expedia Group and Airbnb dominated the rankings.  ... Read More

As a platform, Encore director of commercial strategy Jake Jonassohn compared its travel platform, Zii, to an "octopus" with everything built as microservices, such as the booking tool or duty-of-care platform.... Read More

As a combined entity, the group will serve as a full-service manager of “premium urban short lets” in Paris and London.... Read More

Weeva, one of PhocusWire's Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2024, is a holistic business sustainability management company.... Read More

With just over a year as CFO of Expedia Group under her belt, Julie Whalen took to the stage at The Phocuswright Conference 2023 to discuss the company's technology developments, the impact of generative AI and the travel outlook.... Read More

Ewout Steenbergen will join the company in March as executive vice president and chief financial officer. He was most recently at S&P Global.... Read More

The survey commissioned by Amadeus included representatives from travel companies from nine markets and seven segments of the industry.  ... Read More

This year's popular op-eds were heavy on AI and also covered TikTok and Instagram influencers and the loyalty strategies of Expedia, Booking, Hopper and Airbnb.... Read More

HomeToGo has laid out how it plans to integrate further AI initiatives in 2024 as well as make more investments.... Read More

The company is not saying how many people have been laid off but said the cuts affect 20% of its staff "across various departments and levels."... Read More