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VIDEO: How the cruise industry can get back to sailing
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January 4, 2021
The Healthy Sail Panel brings together many voices from across the cruise industry to ensure a safe return to sailing....
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PhocusWire editorial team's favorite interviews of 2020
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December 31, 2020
As we look forward to better times ahead in 2021, we invite you to feast on our favorite interviews of the last 12 months....
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InPhocus, episode 32 - Ending the year with the best of 2020
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December 31, 2020
To mark our 32nd and last episode of the year, we've trawled through the archives and selected three of our favorite interviews on the podcast....
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HumanForest crowdfunds £1.3M for e-bike push
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December 30, 2020
HumanForest is launching its e-bike service in London in Spring 2021, with additional cities around Europe to follow....
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VIDEO: Why the digital travel sector fails for diversity and inclusion
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December 30, 2020
Martinique Lewis, a diversity in travel consultant, says travel companies need to look across everything they touch internally and externally and grade themselves on their diversity. ...
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VIDEO: How travel execs confronted the crisis - and their staffs
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December 29, 2020
At the Phocuswright Conference, travel leaders discuss how confronting the threat – and often inevitability – of staffing reductions has been the most difficult part of the pandemic....
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VIDEO: Peter Kern on how COVID gave Expedia Group “courage”
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December 29, 2020
Speaking at his first Phocuswright Conference since assuming leadership of Expedia Group, Peter Kern discussed the company's multi-brand strategy, Google and more....
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VIDEO: How we went to the brink and back in 2020
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December 28, 2020
How do you change customer perceptions and jumpstart business after a downfall? Some of the most battered, but resilient, travel businesses worked hard during 2020 to keep it together....
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VIDEOS: PhocusWire's most popular interviews 2020
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December 24, 2020
We present a list of the most popular videos that we've produced at PhocusWire and those we've been involved with during Phocuswright's virtual conferences during 2020....
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VIDEO: Certares’ Greg O’Hara on why 2020 saw record investment in travel
By Mitra Sorrells
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December 24, 2020
O'Hara shares his thoughts on the best travel sectors for investment now and why he believes business travel startups need to pivot....
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Hopin acquires Topi to drive hybrid events
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December 23, 2020
Topi's co-founders are joining Hopin to head up the development of hybrid and mobile products....
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Navisteps raises $1M to develop its corporate travel technology
By Linda Fox
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December 23, 2020
Singapore-based Navisteps will use its $1M in funding for market expansion in Asia....
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VIDEO: Travel veterans Peluso and Jones on opportunities to emerge from COVID stronger
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December 23, 2020
Travelocity founder Terry Jones and former Travelocity CEO Michelle Peluso reunited for a discussion with Phocuswright senior analyst Lorraine Sileo....
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Tech challenges (and coronavirus) were the focus for rental managers in 2020
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December 22, 2020
Short-term rental managers wouldn't wave away the pandemic with a magic wand, according to a Hostfully report....
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The most popular articles on PhocusWire in 2020
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December 22, 2020
A year to forget - but a year in which the editorial team produced some of its best work since PhocusWire launched in November 2017....
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