Travel Inspiration

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What’s driving decision-making for U.S. and Canadian travelers

By Mitra Sorrells | January 24, 2018

Another point for Google when it comes to travel planning, with travelers across North America citing search engines as their top source of inspiration, according to a new survey from Expedia Media... Read More

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TUI Group, Utrip unleash AI-driven travel planning platform

By Jill Menze | January 23, 2018

TUI Group has tapped digital travel discovery platform Utrip to help personalize the traveler planning experience through artificial intelligence. Read More

News / Online

How content truly is king for a travel search site

By Mitra Sorrells | January 23, 2018

Travel.jp, Japan’s largest travel search site, is drawing eyebrow-raising numbers to its articles and reviews that would make most media companies envious. 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 / Technology

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

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