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Interview / Startups

STARTUP STAGE: TripAdmit wants to help activities suppliers sell online

By Linda Fox | June 15, 2020

The Ireland-based company gives tour and activity providers the technology to sell via their websites as well as distribution partners such as hotels and airlines. Read More

News / Startups

Tickitto lands $700,000 from Seedcamp to build out event tickets service

By Kevin May | June 15, 2020

The core part of the business is an API that allows partners to access inventory, pricing and availability through a single pipe from the supplier. Read More

Interview / Technology

Sounding Off: State-backed or multi-brand travel projects rarely work

By PhocusWire | June 12, 2020

There are countless ways to offer support from the state but creating, operating and maintaining a brand new service that seeks to challenge the status quo may not be the best use of a government's... Read More

News / Technology

InPhocus, episode 13 - Open for business, figuring out change

By PhocusWire | June 11, 2020

Luuc Elzinga, president of Netherlands-based Tiqets, joins us on the latest episode of InPhocus to talk about the issues that many suppliers are facing as they recover from the COVID-19 outbreak. Read More

Opinion / Online

Destination marketing is not just about the recovery - it's now a long game

By Bruce Lahood - ICF Next | June 10, 2020

The traveler of the future will be more cautious and more mindful of the adventure they are about to embark upon. But this has huge implications for marketing a destination. Read More

News / Online

Booking.com gets product from TUI's Musement to bolster activities strategy

By Kevin May | June 8, 2020

The agreement with Musement-owner TUI is the first third-party agreement by Booking.com to secure inventory and also a signal of the tour operating giant's intentions to expand its B2B operations in... Read More

Opinion / Online

Rebuilding demand requires every part of the travel industry to play a role

By Tom O'Toole - Kellogg School of Management | June 5, 2020

The travel industry as a whole and individual companies are now turning attention to the marketing initiatives that will be most effective. How can they all collaborate and innovate here? Read More

News / Distribution

Trivago, Booking.com, KLM and others unite to create COVID-19 information service

By Kevin May | June 4, 2020

A group of major travel brands have created a service to provide a single data source with current global news as it relates to the coronavirus outbreak and recovery. Read More

News / Technology

Destination X - The toolkit needed for a new form of tourism

By PhocusWire | June 2, 2020

Let's put Hyperloop, self-driving cars and drone-like helicopters aside for a moment and inspect other technologies that can help destination managers. Read More

News / Startups

Tripfuser lands £2.4M in funding, seeks further expansion

By Linda Fox | May 29, 2020

Funding for the Australia-based company was led by the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria. Acting CEO Matt McCann takes up the role permanently. Read More

Opinion / Online

Possible futures for a post-pandemic travel industry, part 4

By Mario Gavira | May 29, 2020

Post-crisis tourism will have certain similarities to society 200 years before: a two-tier world where only the upper classes were able to travel internationally to experience new places firsthand. Many... Read More

News / Online

Traveling festival fans hopeful of swift return but only if free web cancelations available

By Kevin May | May 28, 2020

A survey of 110,000 festival-goers from countries such as the U.K., France and Germany found that over eight out of ten (82%) would feel confident attending an event within one to six months of... Read More

News / Technology

Destination X - The new normal in tourism

By PhocusWire | May 27, 2020

Have we learned anything, or do we race back to the same mistakes that many destinations and attractions were making prior to the outbreak? Read More

News / Distribution

Tours and activities brands plot recovery with at-home experiences, crowd-control measures

By Jill Menze | May 27, 2020

In response to the coronavirus crisis, Klook is launching virtual experiences as part of a multi-stage recovery plan, while competitor GetYourGuide is building crowd-control technology. Read More

Opinion / Online

Possible futures for a post-pandemic travel industry, part 3

By Mario Gavira | May 26, 2020

This scenario sketches a fundamentally different outcome to the previous scenarios: the virus proves to be more resilient than expected and the discovery and mass production of an effective vaccine only... Read More

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