Travel Booking

News / Startups

Timescenery and Baarb push AI-driven results to fix travel search

By Mitra Sorrells | January 10, 2018

Timescenery, a travel planning site that combines data from suppliers with crowdsourced experiences from travelers, has launched a partnership with Baarb, an artificial intelligence company that... Read More

News / Online

TripAdvisor business units overhauled, two execs depart

By Jill Menze | January 10, 2018

TripAdvisor is undergoing operational changes, a representative from the user review giant has confirmed. Read More

Opinion / Online

Digital impatience: Hotels need to adapt to win the "Need for Speed" generation

By Felix Undeutsch - MICE, Expedia Inc. | January 5, 2018

Companies like Amazon have made it clear: Everything is accessible to everyone at any time from anywhere. Hotels need to follow suit. Read More

News / Technology

Looming GDPR deadline tops list of challenges for travel tech buyers

By Mitra Sorrells | January 5, 2018

With less than five months until the massive new privacy regulation known as GDPR goes into effect, travel technology buyers say compliance with the complicated rules is their biggest challenge of 2018. Read More

News / Online

QOTW: Something about Airbnb's legal dilemmas

By PhocusWire | January 5, 2018

Quote from Apartment Investment & Management Co. (Aimco)... Read More

News / Online

How travel giants are retaining confidence of investors

By Mitra Sorrells | January 4, 2018

The Priceline Group and Expedia Inc. are tipped for another strong year ahead, according to two independent financial analysts. Read More

News / Online

Lawsuit against Airbnb dismissed, but battle isn’t over

By Jill Menze | January 3, 2018

Although Airbnb is celebrating a victory over landlord company Apartment Investment & Management Co. in a lawsuit attempting to stop tenants from sharing spaces, the fight is still active. Read More

Notated News / Technology

GetYourGuide, Air Serbia and more news briefs today...

By PhocusWire | January 3, 2018

In our latest wrap-up of news in brief: ARC partners with GetYourGuide... Verteil Technologies' direct connect India booking... Fujita Kanko's multilingual chatbot... Air Serbia's merchandising... Read More

News / Online

eLong and Tongcheng merge, under Ctrip stewardship

By Kevin May | December 29, 2017

Ctrip is overseeing the merging of two Chinese online travel brands - one of which it bought from Expedia Inc two years ago. Read More

News / Online

Booking.com adds packages, rail and cruises

By Kevin May | December 22, 2017

Booking.com has quietly started testing partnerships for other travel products, including package trips via a deal with Lastminute.com. Read More

Opinion / Online

PhocusWire Forecast 2018: Our view on Online

By PhocusWire | December 21, 2017

The state of online travel as we leave 2017 and enter 2018 couldn’t be more fascinating and yet still fairly difficult to gauge. Read More

News / Online

Niido - Airbnb-powered apartment complex - gets $200M investment

By Jill Menze | December 18, 2017

It might be possible for Airbnb and landlords to play nice after all, at least evidenced by Brookfield Property Partners’ plan to invest as much as $200 million in the Niido Powered by Airbnb... Read More

News / Technology

Q&A Lottery - Expedia Media Solutions, TourRadar, Rezgo, Crafted Comms

By Kevin May | December 15, 2017

Regular viewers of the PundIT Show will know about our QandA Lottery - a quick game that we sometimes play at the end of episodes. Read More

News / Online

Google tweaks flights and hotels, introduces attractions and car rental

By Jill Menze | December 15, 2017

Google has delivered several more knocks to its travel booking competitors with the launch of new features in its Flights, Trips and hotels search functions. Read More