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Appliance of data science: Hopper declares Tuesday as Travel Deal day

By Bernadette Giacomazzo | November 28, 2017

Hopper crunches data - lots of it. So much of it that it has determined when, precisely, is the best day and time to "buy and fly". Read More

News / Online

Airbnb takes aim at Marriott and other hotel chains

By Bernadette Giacomazzo | November 23, 2017

Airbnb is on the warpath - with a number of hotel chains receiving letters from the company this week. Read More

News / Online

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

News / Online

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

News / Online

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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