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Etihad Airways has announced a partnership with payments technology startup Modo on "a unique loyalty redemption solution" for the airline industry. Dallas-based Modo specializes in creating intero... Read More

This is a viewpoint by James Pazhavila, travel analytical lead at Microsoft. After peaking in 2015 and then tapering off through 2017, data indicates that the number of inbound travelers to the US... Read More

For the final piece in our month-long series on startups, we gathered learnings from three companies that have been purchased in recent years.... Read More

Travello, an Australian-based social networking app for travellers, has closed an A$5 million ($3.7 million) funding round, earmarking the cash for product, engineering, customer care and marketing.... Read More

Sponsored by EyeForTravel A day in the life of somebody dealing with hotel distribution involves fighting lot of fires. “I think distribution teams are becoming more like guardians for rate an... Read More

Toyota and Uber will work together to develop self-driving cars, and the agreement comes with a $500 million investment in Uber by the Japanese automaker.... Read More

This is a viewpoint by Ritchie Brett, strategist at experience design studio 383. The way we’ve come to use the term ‘disruption’ in recent years has in many ways become a distraction. The fact is,... Read More

High-end rental network platform Sonder has raised a Series C round of investment to the tune of $85 million.... Read More

Quote from Terry Jones, chairman of WayBlazer, in an article on PhocusWire this week.... Read More

The Puerto Rico Tourism Company is partnering with hotel operations platform ALICE and Roca Marketing to bolster tourism on the island by enhancing communications between hotels and tourists.... Read More

Big investment is heading in the direction of Evolve Vacation Rental Network following a $80 million injection this week.... Read More

Operating a call center is often a costly - but necessary - endeavor for many travel companies. For one, to customers, the call center represents the face of suppliers and informs their first impressions.... Read More

easyJet has selected the advanced network simulation solution Amadeus SkySYM by Optym to optimize flight schedules and improve its on-time performance. SkySYM is one of the five solutions offered a... Read More

A new IATA Aviation Human Resources Report published this week reveals that customer service jobs in aviation will be in high demand over the coming years but that airlines are finding it hard to attr... Read More

Homelike, an online marketplace for long-term business apartment rentals across Europe, has raised $14 million and brought a new investor - Spark Capital – on board. Existing Homelike investors Che... Read More