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Report—The short-term rental guest: 2025 trends, insights and research

By Cathy Walsh | April 15, 2025

This report is based on findings from a study of the short-term rental market in the United States conducted by Phocuswright in partnership with Expedia Group and other travel leaders. Read More

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NextTrip acquires luxury OTA Five Star Alliance

By Abby Crotty | April 14, 2025

The latest acquisition is anticipated to help NextTrip expand its reach in the luxury travel sector. Read More

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BizAway acquires Aervio, boosts travel management tech offering

By Linda Fox | April 14, 2025

Aervio said its business travel optimization platform uses natural language processing to fulfill requests and can reduce search, booking and billing time by 90%. Read More

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How travel businesses choose the right AI model

By Mark Frary | April 14, 2025

The world of AI is expanding rapidly, creating both solutions and concerns for travel companies. Read More

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Why attribute-based selling is gaining momentum

By Matthew Parsons | April 14, 2025

Hotels are using attribute-based selling more often, allowing guests to pick and choose specific characteristics based on their own preferences. Read More

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PhocusWire's weekly travel tech news briefs: SITA, IATA, Fora Travel, Directo and more...

By PhocusWire | April 11, 2025

Keep up with all the latest people, partner and product news from around the global travel industry. Read More

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Kayak launches new AI tool for travel search

By Abby Crotty | April 10, 2025

Kayak described the new platform as its tech team's "playground for innovation" and said what works best on Kayak.ai will then become part of Kayak.com for everyone to use. Read More

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Sustainability-focused travel management platform Goodwings raises nearly $3M

By Morgan Hines | April 10, 2025

The raise will allow the Denmark-based company to create its Sustainability Suite 3.0, which will include new tools for businesses to limit their carbon footprint. Read More

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The path to growing alternative revenue for short-term rentals

By Phocuswright Research | April 10, 2025

For companies that serve short-term rentals, it is critical to understand what type of technological and ancillary tools operators are turning to. Read More

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MSC, Vision-Box partner to streamline cruise experience with biometrics

By Morgan Hines | April 9, 2025

Amadeus, which acquired Vision-Box in 2024, said the partnership marks a “major step” toward digitizing the cruise journey and could become a model for the industry to implement biometric... Read More

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Duetto acquires hotel benchmarking platform HotStats

By Abby Crotty | April 9, 2025

The partnership is intended to provide hoteliers with a clear picture of profits, allowing them to make informed decisions that improve efficiency and guest experience, according to the companies. Read More

News / Startups

Diamo lands $4M to help smaller hotels with revenue management

By Linda Fox | April 9, 2025

The funding for Diamo, which was spun out of hotel management company Life House last year, will go towards product development and global expansion. Read More