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Snow is optional: What moves winter sports travelers when the forecast fails
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October 22, 2026
Five winter sports traveler segments point to different strategies for driving mountain bookings despite uncertain snow conditions.
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Ancillaries in the vacation rentals sector: 'The new frontier'?
By Abby Crotty
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May 19, 2025
Guests are looking for more from their vacations—what will it take for the STR sector to fully embrace alternative revenue streams?
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PhocusWire's weekly travel tech news briefs: airBaltic, Hostaway, Smartvel, TravelPerk and more...
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April 4, 2025
Keep up with all the latest people, partner and product news from around the global travel industry.
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Roch Ventures joins TravelPerk and Flixbus founders in WeSki funding
By Linda Fox
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March 6, 2023
The size of the investment has not been disclosed, but at launch Roch Ventures said it was targeting roughly 15 companies with its €100 million fund.
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Le Collectionist scores €60M for luxury rentals expansion
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December 2, 2022
Highland Europe led the investment in the Paris, France-based business with a number of business angels and private investors also involved.
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How AI can help the talent crisis in attractions and resorts
By Don White - Satisfi Labs
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June 28, 2022
Adopting the right level of AI technology can free staff to focus on the most crucial - and lucrative - customer interactions.
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LIVE BLOG: Coronavirus and the travel industry - impact and recovery
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February 21, 2022
PhocusWire%252527s live blog is charting the impact of COVID-19 on the travel industry and the sector%252527s efforts to recover.
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Tackling unconscious bias in travel marketing
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September 13, 2021
We know it helps everyone to see themselves in an advertisement to better imagine a meaningful and momentous vacation. Yet, far‐too‐often, there’s something missing.
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Sounding Off: Travelers may have other goals than doing the right thing
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April 9, 2021
The best hope that anyone can have right now is that people will actually come through on the industry's desire to capitalize on pent-up demand AND do so in a way that at least illustrates signs of a...
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VIDEO: How COVID-19 accelerated digital transformation in travel
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January 12, 2021
Rachel Barger, senior vice president of global enterprise sales at Cisco Systems, speaks about technology trends emerging from the periods of lockdown and what they mean for the travel industry.
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VIDEO: Understanding the connected trip and what it means for travel brands
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January 11, 2021
We speak to Ingenico's head of travel, Eric Liebman, about the definitions, use cases and how payments is a vital thread running through all parts of the process.
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VIDEO: How travel companies can move toward “future-proofing”
By Mitra Sorrells
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January 6, 2021
Andrea Kates, managing director of consultancy Futureproofing: Next, explains the "pyramid of possibilities" at The Phocuswright Conference 2020.
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Nezasa lands $6M to expand connected trip technology
By Kevin May
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December 3, 2020
The latest injection brings the total raised by the Switzerland-based company to $13 million.
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Thriving in an experience economy
By Erik Tengen - Oaky
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November 26, 2020
We look at how emotion affects memory, what types of experiences are most effective in inciting emotion, and the role of hotels in the system of experiences we know as tourism – a vital part of the...
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Phocuswright Conference 2020 Preview: Vaccines, government changes should inspire higher recovery goals
By Kevin May
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November 10, 2020
If the chaos of 2020 is swiftly put behind us, then the devastating aspects of what has happened this year (huge job losses, brands closed, etc.) will be in vain.
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