Travel Booking

News / Distribution

TripActions launches NDC platform in partnership with United Airlines

By Mitra Sorrells | June 11, 2019

The business travel platform is launching an end-to-end flight shopping and booking experience integrated with IATA’s NDC industry standard. Read More

Opinion / Online

What happens to rate parity when Airbnb is an online travel agency?

By Gino Engels - OTA Insight | June 11, 2019

As lines blur between platform and provider, there are some real questions around rate parity and price competitiveness in this brave new world. Read More

voyager hq travel disruption summit aviation roundtable

Opinion / Technology

Aviation innovation: Insider perspectives on where the industry goes next

By Voyager HQ | June 10, 2019

Voyager HQ asked individual table moderators from this year’s summit to share some of the most compelling conversations and useful tidbits from their tables and from the day as a whole. Read More

News / Online

Travel payments, part 2: Balancing friction and risk in fighting fraud

By Mitra Sorrells | June 10, 2019

For part two in our series on travel payments, we explore issues related to fraud and how machine learning can help to solve them. Read More

Interview / Online

Sounding Off: It's all about making consumers' lives easier

By PhocusWire | June 7, 2019

It's not quite "one app to rule them all" but ultra-simplicity is perhaps where the travel app marketplace could be heading. Read More

News / Technology

Marketing might be the answer for corporate travel booking tool adoption

By Linda Fox | June 7, 2019

Challenges remain for corporate booking tools, which are having to evolve fast to keep up. Read More

Nordic Choice on Google Amazon using blockchain

News / Technology

Will Google and Amazon embrace a blockchain travel marketplace?

By Mitra Sorrells | June 7, 2019

Nordic Choice Hotels’ director of future business, Christian Lundén, says blockchain has the potential to disrupt travel distribution by stimulating activity from both startups and large tech players... Read More

News / Distribution

EasyGuide launches tours and activities shop, uses handy easyJet branding

By Linda Fox | June 6, 2019

The airline’s founder, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, has invested a minority stake in easyGuide, which launched its website this week. Read More

News / Startups

VIDEO: How investors decipher the fast-paced online travel landscape in Asia

By Linda Fox | June 5, 2019

The “Through the Lens of Investors” session at the Phocuswright Europe 2019 Conference threw a spotlight on many of the recent big deals as well as some of the areas investors are drawn to currently. Read More

News / Technology

Alipay partners with Splyt to bring ride-hailing to Chinese tourists

By Jill Menze | June 5, 2019

The integration will allow Chinese tourists to hail taxis from local transportation providers through Alipay, eliminating the need to download a new app while traveling overseas. Read More