Travel Booking

News / Online

Former Expedia Group CFO Eric Hart returns to lead strategy, business development

By Morgan Hines | May 19, 2025

Hart left Expedia Group in 2022 after 13 years in various roles, including as chief financial officer and chief strategy officer. Read More

News / Distribution

Experiences can increase hotel RevPAR by 55%

By Abby Crotty | May 19, 2025

Turneo, an e-commerce platform for hotels, evaluated publicly available data from 136,000 hotels worldwide. Read More

Interview / Startups

Startup Stage: VanityPass aims to redesign loyalty rewards for younger travelers

By Morgan Hines | May 19, 2025

VanityPass is working to revolutionize the travel perks that often come as part of a credit card loyalty program. Read More

News / Distribution

Ancillaries in the vacation rentals sector: 'The new frontier'?

By Abby Crotty | May 19, 2025

Guests are looking for more from their vacations—what will it take for the STR sector to fully embrace alternative revenue streams? Read More

News / Online

Prosus completes acquisition of Despegar

By Linda Fox | May 16, 2025

Terms of the deal include a subsidiary of Prosus merging with Despegar with the Latin America-based OTA become a private company and delisting from the New York Stock Exchange. Read More

News / Startups

Meet the 19 finalists of the 2025 Global Startup Pitch

By PhocusWire | May 16, 2025

Winners for each region will be chosen at Phocuswright Europe and then travel to WiT Singapore to pitch their companies to the audience there. Read More

News / Technology

PhocusWire's weekly travel tech news briefs: TourRadar, Spotnana, Mews and more...

By PhocusWire | May 16, 2025

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

Opinion / Technology

Real time availability, pricing in AI will change hospitality distribution: Are you ready?

By Pablo Delgado - Mirai | May 16, 2025

ARI, or availability, rates, inventory, could radically change the hotel booking process with real-time pricing. Read More

News / Startups

Tern raises $13M, launches new features

By Abby Crotty | May 15, 2025

The company also launched a series of new features for travel advisors. Read More

Event / Technology

Harnessing the power of AI: What it means for tourism and hospitality

May 15, 2025

Join Miles Partnership, PhocusWire and Phocuswright to hear some of the latest and most compelling applications of AI in the travel and tourism industry. On Demand

News / Technology

HBX Group acquires Civitfun to help hotels digitalize operations

By Linda Fox | May 15, 2025

The companies plan to develop technology such as contactless check-in and check-out to enhance the guest experience, optimize operations and open up new revenue streams for hotels. Read More

News / Online

Rapid Fire with Veronica Diquattro of Omio

By Morgan Hines | May 15, 2025

As we count down to Phocuswright Europe, PhocusWire is shining the spotlight on a selection of conference speakers in a series of Q&As. Read More

News / Technology

Expedia Group leans into B2B arm, adding new APIs, advertising capabilities

By Morgan Hines | May 14, 2025

The B2B expansion and new AI tools come on the heels of Expedia Group's Q1 earnings last week, which fell within company guidance. Read More

News / Online

MakeMyTrip reports record gross bookings and revenue for 2025

By Linda Fox | May 14, 2025

The Gurugram, India-based OTA reported double-digit increases in air, hotel and packages, as well as bus ticketing revenue in fiscal Q4 of 2025. Read More