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Opinion / Technology

By Nick Magliocchetti - Waves | December 5, 2017

With mainstay industries like taxis and hotels being disrupted, it’s time for improvements to the aviation industry. Read More

News / Startups

It sucks to launch a travel startup (but you still should)

By Jenny Silber - VoyagerHQ | December 4, 2017

Starting a company in the travel industry is hard. 96% of travel companies fail in the first 5 years (as opposed to the 88% cross-industry standard). Read More

From Our Partners / Distribution

Hoteliers must pressure OTAs in competition for direct bookings

By Patrick Bosworth - Duetto | December 4, 2017

At The Phocuswright Conference last month, I heard plenty of chatter from hoteliers about the major online travel agencies reporting rough quarterly results and the subsequent drops in share prices. Read More

News / Startups

Startups and model shifts - every PundIT Show so far

By Kevin May | December 1, 2017

We hosted eight of the initial run of PhocusWire PundIT Shows over the course of almost three days at The Phocuswright Conference. Read More

Opinion / Online

Three ways to tackle attractions with online personalization

By Alex Bainbridge - DestinationCTO | November 30, 2017

The last month has been rather busy in the world of tours and activities, with three significant announcements. Read More

Opinion / Distribution

Booking.com Genius on metasearch - genius move, perhaps not for hotels

By Pablo Delgado - Mirai | November 28, 2017

With barely any opposition from hotels, Booking.com is taking big steps to continue growing and capturing sales for your hotel which are currently coming in through other channels, including your own... Read More

News / Startups

VIDEO: PhocusWire PundIT Show - Episode 7

By Kevin May | November 23, 2017

The penultimate outing of the special PundIT Shows at The Phocuswright Conference is a terrific episode. Read More

News / Startups

VIDEO: PhocusWire PundIT Show - Episode 6

By Kevin May | November 20, 2017

Redeam was the talk of the show - at least the first half of it - at The Phocuswright Conference 2017. Read More

News / Technology

VIDEO: Media on what excites them about travel tech

By Kevin May | November 17, 2017

Journalists spend hours thinking and talking (and often tweeting) about the industry that they cover... obviously. Read More

News / Startups

VIDEO: PhocusWire PundIT Show - Episode 5

By Kevin May | November 16, 2017

Fresh from selling Trip.com to Ctrip, Travis Katz joins the PundIT Show with two other luminaries to discuss various matters of state. Read More

Opinion / Online

Time for travel search engines to up their game

By Gilad Berenstein - Utrip | November 15, 2017

With the advent of search engines like Google and Yahoo! almost two decades ago, accessing information became incredibly easy. Read More

News / Startups

VIDEO: PhocusWire PundIT Show - Episode 4

By Kevin May | November 14, 2017

After a day of pitches from startups, PhocusWire's PundIT Show returns to take the temperature of three delegates at The Phocuswright Conference. Read More

News / Technology

VIDEO: English, Gerstner and Hafner - Next Big Thing

By Kevin May | November 14, 2017

A petri dish of testosterone? Three of the leading lights of online travel of the past decade or so gaze into their crystal balls? Read More

News / Technology

From the WIT desk: The next billion users

By Siew Hoon Yeoh | November 8, 2017

During the WIT conference last month, one clear message hit home – how tech and travel brands in the West were now looking toward Asia for inspiration and ideas, not just growth and profits. Read More

Interview / Distribution

In The Big Chair - Mike Ford of SiteMinder

By Kevin May | November 5, 2017

The man who helped get SiteMinder off the ground in 2006 has plenty to say about the direct-booking debate, intermediaries becoming tech vendors and his style as a boss. Read More

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