According to a new study from ALICE and YouGov, travelers increasingly want recommendations and in-room amenities curated to their liking.... Read More

MMGY Global CEO Clayton Reid sees a looming slowdown that will impact travel. The first part of his analysis explains why this has come about.... Read More

Thoughts from travel tech investors at an event in Ireland on what's hot and what they're looking for from startups.... Read More

Key findings from a major study carried out by D-Edge, the Accor-owned hotel technology group that includes the AvailPro and FastBooking platforms.... Read More

Founded in December 2017, Wanderift allows users to buy a subscription of either $369 per month for three one-way flights or $459 per month for four one-way flights. Subscriptions are month-to-month.  ... Read More

OYO will offer activities such as comedy shows, wine tastings and live music at some of its OYO Townhouse properties in India.... Read More

Three organizations are behind the move to back Uber's Advanced Technologies Group: car manufacturing giant Toyota, SoftBank Vision Fund and the Denso Corporation.... Read More

In a series of interviews with executives participating at the event in Amsterdam in May, PhocusWire finds out what makes them tick... Next up: Touring Bird (Area 120 - Google) co-founder and CEO Lax Poojary.... Read More

At WiT Middle East, Checkout.com’s Remo Giovanni Abbondandolo looked at the purchasing behaviors of travelers in the Middle East, where the opportunities lie and what some of the core challenges facing the industry are, as online payments begin to overtake traditional methods.... Read More

For the third part in our series on the Middle East, we analyze the distribution landscape and the role of homegrown online travel agencies.... Read More

The fledgling community in the Middle East must acknowledge how other startup "scenes" have evolved and learn from the errors that have hindered new businesses.... Read More

Once consumers have booked a trip, the likelihood of receiving a really bad transactional email at some point between booking and departure is far too high. ... Read More

Increasingly, GDSs and agencies are encouraging advisors to switch to graphical user interfaces.... Read More

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security expects to use facial-recognition technology on 97% of departing passengers within that time frame.... Read More

In a series of interviews with executives participating at the event in Amsterdam in May, PhocusWire finds out what makes them tick... Next up: ABTA CEO Mark Tanzer.... Read More