Tours & Activities

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From Our Partners / Technology

VIDEO: LIVN on bringing a GDS approach to tours and activities

By PhocusWire | October 11, 2018

LIVN has a pertinent perspective on how the tours and activities is likely to develop on the next few years. Read More

From Our Partners / Technology

VIDEO: iSeatz on its ancillary management system

By PhocusWire | October 10, 2018

iSeatz, the travel commerce and merchandizing technology company, recently debuted its Ancillary Management System to the industry. Read More

News / Technology

VIDEO: Autoura on an autonomous vehicle-led revolution in travel

By Kevin May | October 10, 2018

The automotive industry is (finally) fully behind the idea of autonomous vehicles entering the market. Read More

Interview / Startups

STARTUP STAGE: KeyoCoin helps independent travel companies through universal rewards program

By Linda Fox | October 10, 2018

KeyoCoin is a blockchain-based travel rewards cryptocurrecy and platform that aims to get independent travel businesses in front of consumers, as well as provide them with a rewards program. Read More

News / Technology

Shaken, not stirred, by a travel sector now following a familiar pattern

By Stephen Joyce - Rezgo | October 9, 2018

The path that I was dutifully walking ended up not being the path that the rest of the industry was taking. Read More

News / Online

TripAdvisor signals importance of tours and activities with TV ad launch

By Mitra Sorrells | October 9, 2018

TripAdvisor is trying a new strategy to encourage travelers to book tours and activities on its platform. Read More

Interview / Online

In the green room at Phocuswright with... David Holyoke

By PhocusWire | October 8, 2018

As global head of Airbnb for Work, David Holyoke oversees the strategic direction and operation of the company's business travel vertical. Read More

News / Online

VIDEO: Context Travel on standing out with branded tours

By Kevin May | October 8, 2018

Well-backed online travel agencies often get a lot of the headlines - but brands such as Context Travel have been operating quietly and steadily in the background for years. Read More

News / Online

Maintaining the power and influence of online travel agencies

By PhocusWire | October 4, 2018

One of the central tenets of the Power Paradox in travel is how some of the biggest brands ever assembled in the industry "have aggregated the content, established the trust and amassed the war chests... Read More

News / Technology

Trekksoft expands into ski operator tech with Waldhart acquisition

By Kevin May | October 3, 2018

Trekksoft has made its second acquisition of 2018 with the buy out of Austrian tech provider for ski and other activity providers, Waldhart Software. Read More

News / Technology

VIDEO: FareHarbor on being acquired by Booking.com

By Kevin May | October 3, 2018

In what has been a transformative year for tours and activities, perhaps one development stood out more than any other. Read More

From Our Partners / Online

Travellers know what they want: all we have to do is listen to them

By Jon Collins - Travel Forward | October 1, 2018

When we talk about travelling customers as entities rather than people, we lose touch with one fundamental element. Read More

News / Online

VIDEO: Two opposing views on Google's entry into tours and activities

By Kevin May | September 28, 2018

Google has always been involved in tours and activities - suppliers and online travel agencies would spend their digital marketing dollar with the search, as other brands do elsewhere in the industry. Read More