TripAdvisor is the latest travel brand to partner with Foursquare, the company that began as a social check-in app for consumers but in recent years has evolved to focus on providing location intelligence data to businesses.  ... Read More

TravelBird, an online deals service that was one of the longer-term survivors of the early flash sales era, has shut, blaming a lack of funding.... Read More

Reaching employees is difficult. On average, employees receive close to 300 messages per day, plus the time spent on social media.... Read More

Founded in December 2017, there are two parts to the startup: BedLinker, a B2B marketplace for travel agents, and BedAllocator, a distribution management system for leisure hotels. The company wants to make managing hotel bookings more efficient for everyone.... Read More

There's been a huge amount of attention on tours and activities during 2018 - perhaps more than any other sector in the industry.... Read More

As co-founder and CEO of Peek, Ruzwana Bashir has steered the tours and activities company through a number of funding rounds in recent years as well as the acquisition of rival Zozi in early 2017. At The Phocuswright Conference 2018, she will join an executive roundtable on tours and activities.... Read More

Quote from Christian Saller, general partner of Holtzbrinck Ventures, in an article on PhocusWire this week.... Read More

A great chief technology officer can be a critical driver behind a technology company’s success.... Read More

Travelport reports third quarter 2018 results with strong gains for payment service eNett.... Read More

Emirates is claiming a world first with the launch a “biometric path” for travelers at Dubai International Airport. It is one of a number of projects pushing the technology during 2018.... Read More

It’s been exactly one year since Ctrip purchased Trip.com - a strategic move by the Chinese online travel powerhouse to bring its services into local Asia Pacific markets. And the past 365 days have so far paid off, according to Ctrip's Victor Tseng.... Read More

Insufficient support from vendors tops the list of concerns expressed by hoteliers about their property management systems in a new study, The Future of Hotel Management Systems.    ... Read More

Tools to help professional vacation rental managers save time and control who can book their properties are part of a new suite of products launched this week by Booking.com.  ... Read More

We now admit to starting our theme month in October pondering how much discussion there was to be had around metasearch in travel.... Read More

Metasearch has tried to become a part in the rental ecosystem - with some big investment rounds going into startups and, unfortunately, some fairly high-profile casualties along the way.... Read More