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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

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QOTW: Something to do with those Gatekeepers

By PhocusWire | December 22, 2017

Quote from Kieron Branagan, CEO at OpenJaw Technologies. Read More

Notated News / Technology

Augmented reality specs - the race is on

By Laurent Hrybyk - Wired | December 13, 2017

Though the Next Big Thing won’t appear for a while, we know pretty much what it will look like. Read More

Opinion / Online

Mixing media is the smart shift for travel in 2018

By Jim Price - PebblePost | December 13, 2017

There was a shift felt across the travel industry when Booking.com announced in November that they would be more than doubling their investment in television advertising. Read More

News / Startups

Booking.com expands startup plan for sustainable tourism

By Bernadette Giacomazzo | December 8, 2017

Booking.com is to extend its Booking Booster Program into a second year, aimed at funding startups that are engaged in sustainable tourism. Read More

From Our Partners / Online

Expedia Media Solutions on the Asia-Pacific traveler

By PhocusWire | November 29, 2017

The digital behaviour of travelers in China, Japan and Australia was the subject of a recent study by Expedia Media Solutions. Read More

News / Online

Travelers will embrace personalization and AI for a better travel experience

By Bernadette Giacomazzo | November 13, 2017

Google claims that the "friction in travel" makes it ideal for new technology and artificial intelligence-led services to come in and make improvements. Read More

News / Online

Google Flights now pushes flexible destination search, aiming at trip inspiration

By Sean O'Neil | March 7, 2016

In February, Google Flights updated the default interface for visitors to its various main windows (google.com/flights, google.co.uk/flights, etc.) for select countries worldwide. Travelers can say Read More

News / Online

Booking.com thinks its Destination Finder will inspire your next trip

By Sean O'Neil | March 2, 2016

Six years ago, travel brands started trying to turn search upside down by removing the need to have a destination in mind prior to shopping. Kayak launched its Explore feature, which let you see w Read More

News / Technology

Epiclist finds new life through outdoor clothing brand

By Linda Fox | November 9, 2015

About a year ago travel inspiration app Epiclist called time after three years of development citing lack of funds and being unable to build a sustainable business model. It seems all is not lost h Read More

News / Technology

Virtual reality, B2B data visualization, and interactive itineraries emerge at THack Seattle

By Nick Vivion | April 21, 2015

Seattle was the latest stop on the THack global travel hackathon train — and, despite the town's reputation for a consistent light drizzle, the weekend was picture perfect Puget Sound. As the sun s Read More

News / Technology

Startup pitch: Hitlist is first step to new way to distribute travel

By Linda Fox | February 24, 2015

You could say that Hitlist was conceived out of curiosity over how travel distribution works as well as delve further into why more discretionary income doesn't go to travel. Founder and chief exec Read More

News / Technology

Epiclist calls time after about 1000 days of app life

By Linda Fox | December 23, 2014

Travel inspiration app Epiclist says it plans to close down its service and remove it from the servers on January 10, 2015. The startup, built up over the past three years and claiming a spot as on Read More

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Startup pitch: IBM's Watson powers new travel advice tool WayBlazer

By Sean O'Neil | October 7, 2014

It’s only been a few years since IBM's Watson technology beat Jeopardy! champions on US national TV. Now Big Blue's supercomputer is taking on an even tougher challenge: coming up with trip-plannin Read More

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Startup pitch: Travel inspiration site Villy sets forth with Harvard and MIT pedigree

By Sean O'Neil | September 16, 2014

Another day, another travel-inspiration startup debuts. But today's new site -- Villy -- stands out from other travel-planning tools by being located at the Harvard Innovation Lab in Boston. Villy Read More

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