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Chinese in One App To Rule Them All strategy

By Bernadette Giacomazzo | November 21, 2017

Fresh from a massive $4 billion funding round in October, Meituan-Dianping is using the concept of an all encompassing lifestyle app to take on the world. Read More

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Hitlist on travel trends, mobile apps, Google

By Bernadette Giacomazzo | November 20, 2017

Gillian Morris, founder and CEO of Hitlist, talks about travel trends, Google's metasearch reign and mobile apps. Read More

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Airbnb acquires Accomable to aid travelers with disabilities

By Bernadette Giacomazzo | November 16, 2017

Adding to its portfolio, Airbnb announced today that it has acquired Accomable, a platform designed to help travelers with disabilities find accessible hotels, vacation rentals and apartments. Read More

News / Startups

VIDEO: PhocusWire PundIT Show - Episode 5

By Kevin May | November 16, 2017

Fresh from selling Trip.com to Ctrip, Travis Katz joins the PundIT Show with two other luminaries to discuss various matters of state. Read More

News / Technology

The rise of the robots: How AI is being used for content creation on travel sites

By Bernadette Giacomazzo | November 15, 2017

To save money, and increase output, SDL recommends robots – but are they effective? Read More

News / Online

New Expedia report explores rise of “bleisure” travelers

By Bernadette Giacomazzo | November 15, 2017

A new study suggests that bleisure trips are on the rise—and hotels can capitalize on the trend. Read More

Opinion / Online

Time for travel search engines to up their game

By Gilad Berenstein - Utrip | November 15, 2017

With the advent of search engines like Google and Yahoo! almost two decades ago, accessing information became incredibly easy. 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 / Technology

How established travel companies are breaking new ground

By Bernadette Giacomazzo | November 9, 2017

Established companies put forth new innovations – but who at The Phocuswright Conference's Launch series had the best of the best? Read More

News / Startups

VIDEO: How startups can make a mark (but rarely do)

By Kevin May | November 8, 2017

It's a tough world out there for travel startups - with failure rates far higher than the number of success stories. Read More

News / Technology

Sygic takes majority share of Tripomatic, rebrands its travel app

By Sean O'Neil | April 27, 2016

Sygic, a maker of mobile navigation apps, took a 51% equity stake in Tripomatic, a Czech Republic-based startup that helps travelers create and book custom itineraries for an undisclosed sum. Sygic Read More

News / Distribution

Part Two of Two: How a trip planning startup can succeed

By Viewpoints | February 9, 2016

"Customer acquisition costs" is the phrase trip planning naysayers like to use when explaining why they think the sector is a startup graveyard. NB: This is the second instalment of a two-part view Read More

News / Technology

Hipmunk expands feature set to include trip planning tools

By Nick Vivion | June 30, 2015

Hipmunk has long been a bastion of simplicity — one interface that grids out the various flight options for a specific flight search. Now, the brand is looking for new ways to invigorate its approa Read More

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Lonely Planet links up latest guidebook with companion app in multimedia play

By Nick Vivion | April 30, 2015

There hasn't been much news out of Lonely Planet since being acquired in 2013. Recently, however, the brand has begun to once again come alive. After switching strategies to make Skyscanner its def Read More

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Travefy, a group travel planner and TMC tool, lands $1.8M in funding

April 27, 2015

Travefy, a website that helps groups plan trips, has raised $1.8 million in equity investment in its Series A round of funding. The money is in addition to the startup's $320,000 seed round in autu Read More

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