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Where does social media and sustainability collide?
By Marissa Trew - WiT
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January 10, 2020
At the VidCon Asia Summit, Jeremy Jauncey, CEO and founder of Beautiful Destinations, spoke about the pressure tourism organizations are under to embrace digital, the role of social media content...
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Predictions for the next decade of travel
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December 17, 2019
WEX senior vice president Jim Pratt predicts rapid innovation will reshape the travel industry in the coming decade.
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VIDEO: SnapTravel - Summit pitch Phocuswright Conference 2019
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December 16, 2019
A consumer brand that has driven $100 million+ in hotel sales over messaging (SMS, Messenger, WhatsApp).
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STARTUP STAGE: NextPlan wants to make custom vacation planning easy
By Steven Lerner
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December 10, 2019
NextPlan is a platform that providers travelers with a personalized and customizable vacation itinerary.
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VIDEO: Personalization, the importance of data and privacy in travel
By Linda Fox
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December 6, 2019
Developments in, as well as the challenges of, personalization in travel were up for discussion during an executive roundtable at the Phocuswright Conference 2019.
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VIDEO: Questo - Summit pitch Phocuswright Conference 2019
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December 6, 2019
Gamified walking tours can be played any time by solving clues in order to discover cities and stories.
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VIDEO: Gamitee - Summit pitch Phocuswright Conference 2019
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December 5, 2019
This social solution for travel sites converts 5x better than the site baseline, translating to an increase of 10% in overall online sales.
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Hot 25 Startups 2020: SnapTravel
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November 18, 2019
SnapTravel has developed an AI-powered chatbot that sources through thousands of hotels to find the best deals based on price, location, quality and overall value.
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Sounding Off: Reality checks for brand loyalty
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November 8, 2019
Apple has got to be one of the best examples of the modern brand loyalty concept, but what came first: product or brand?
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Sounding Off: Let's face it - Instagram isn't real
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November 1, 2019
Travel companies also need to think about how responsibly they are behaving and the message they are sending to their traveling customers.
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Curious where social media is going? The travel industry leads the way
By Martin Stoll - Sparkloft Media.
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October 30, 2019
Travel and tourism has been leading content sharing well before the conception of today’s popular platforms; a consistent trend for years.
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Sounding Off: Reviews should be about quality, not quantity
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October 18, 2019
The narrative around reviews has completely changed. It's no longer about volume but relevancy - something that is much harder to do.
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VIDEO: 15below on taking traveler communications to the next level
By Linda Fox
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October 9, 2019
At the World Aviation Festival 2019, PhocusWire spoke wiht 15below on the challenges of airline communications, especially during disruption.
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What billions of GDS data signals tell us about traveler booking behavior
By Robert Brown - Travelport
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October 7, 2019
The report investigates the six dominant traveler personas that make up global travel bookings – solo travelers, families, business travelers, couples, weekenders, and groups.
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VIDEO: AirBaltic on NDC, Blockchain and other emerging tech
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October 4, 2019
PhocusWire talked to airBaltic boss Martin Gauss about emerging tech, NDC and wider distribution challenges at the World Aviation Festival 2019.
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