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This is a viewpoint from David Turnbull, founder and chief commercial officer for SnapShot. Mark Twain’s famous “If I had more time” quotation could be updated and applied to the current generation... Read More

With more than 963 million active users each month, WeChat is the leading social media app in China.  ... Read More

Google has released Hangouts Chat – a collaboration tool widely called Google’s competitor to Slack – and Kayak is one of several companies that have built bots that are integrated with the Chat platform.   ... Read More

Glenn Fogel, chief executive of Booking Holdings, formerly Priceline Group, hailed a good year for the company as it posted healthy fourth quarter results for 2017 with gross travel bookings up 19% ye... Read More

This is a viewpoint from Matt Walker, chief storyteller at LikeWhere Netflix knows something about you. Something that you don’t know about yourself, or at least you will not admit: You are poor at... Read More

The spending habits of Chinese tourists abroad is the subject of an Outbound Chinese Tourism and Consumption Trends survey by Alipay. Chinese Tourists’ mobile habits set expectations for mobile payme... Read More

Booking Holdings – the new name for what was Priceline Group – showed significant growth across all sectors in 2017, with most key metrics up around 20%.... Read More

Amadeus took in almost €5 billion in revenue during 2017 after an 8.5% increase on the previous 12 months for the travel technology provider.... Read More

German tours and activities startup BookingKit has secured a Series B funding round understood to tally at around $4 million.... Read More

Hospitality is the heartbeat of travel and tourism, with technology dictating the rhythms. The relationship between hospitality and tech is constantly shifting in response to not only industry deve... Read More

This is a roundup of announcements related to people moves and business expansions in travel in February 2018. Wednesday 28 February 2018 GoEuro boosts engineering The company has appointed... Read More

This is a viewpoint from Eric Bamberger, SVP, Hospitality, IgnitioneOne. In September, Guggenheim Securities posited that Priceline may be backing away from the hotel metasearch channel and instead... Read More

It is not that long ago, even last week, that inflight wifi was viewed as a perk. But it’s growing importance to customers has led to the forging of new relationships to build an infrastructure that g... Read More

Travel brands have been using chatbots for some time, on their websites and through Facebook Messenger, to engage customers with a conversational interface.  ... Read More

International Airlines Group's shift to a New Distribution Capability-led connection to intermediaries pretty much ended any lasting resistance from tech providers last year.... Read More