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Phocuswright introduces Battleground event
Travel Weekly- July 21, 2017
Phocuswright has created a stand-alone Battleground event. Debuting Sept. 12 at the Plug and Play Tech Center, the world's largest startup accelerator, 16 finalists will compete for a chance to take the stage at the annual Phocuswright Conference in ...

Travel Weekly

Ghosts and bikes rule Amsterdam
Travel Weekly- July 19, 2017
I stayed there because it was the hotel of choice for the Phocuswright team. It's a very old hotel -- actually, ancient, because to us in Asia, any hotel over 30 years old is beyond old. The structure was built in 1912 as the head office of six ...

Hospitality Net

StayNTouch Releases Eye-Opening Infographic: Keeping Up With Hotel Guest Expectations
Hospitality Net- July 19, 2017
In fact, two thirds of consumers (68%) say it is somewhat or very important that companies they interact with are seen as a technology leader (Salesforce Mobile Behavior Report 2015) and according to Phocuswright, 64% t of U.S. hotel guests said it is ...

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BeMyGuest closes Series A, launches its own lab
Tnooz- July 19, 2017
The Lab project is intended to help suppliers and distributors access its tools and services, ranging from straightforward AP integrations to e-ticketing and revenue management. According to Phocuswright data referenced in the announcement, tours and ...

The lowest hotel rate tough to find, but OTAs a good bet
Travel Weekly- July 18, 2017
Still, hotels overall are losing ground to the OTAs, Phocuswright reports. Phocuswright estimated earlier this year that OTAs will have increased their share of online U.S. hotel bookings to 52% in 2020, up from 47% in 2013. Piper Jaffray's Olson wrote ...

Government Technology

Miami-Dade Has Been an Airbnb Battleground. So Why Are Home Sharing Companies Moving In?
Government Technology- July 18, 2017
Diversification in home sharing is a sure sign of the industry's explosive growth, said Douglas Quinby, senior vice president of research at Phocuswright, a travel industry research firm. In 2010, fewer than one in 10 Americans had stayed at a private ...

Nasdaq

Priceline (PCLN) Gets EU Approval for Momondo Group Takeover
Nasdaq- July 18, 2017
According to PhoCusWright, online travel booking in Europe is growing faster than in the U.S.. Since Priceline is strongly positioned here, it will be able to benefit from increasing penetration rates through Momondo. Over the years, Kayak has failed ...

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Miami Herald

Miami-Dade is an Airbnb battleground. So why are home-sharing companies coming here?
Miami Herald- July 17, 2017
... experience similar to hotels, and still others work only in the shrinking space of legal short-term renting. Diversification in home sharing is a sure sign of the industry's explosive growth, said Douglas Quinby, senior vice president of research ...

Forbes

For Sale: One Indian National Airline With $8 Billion In Debt
Forbes- July 13, 2017
There is lots of competition, and airlines are often forced to compete on price to an extent that strains their profitability,” notes analyst Maggie Rauch, Director, Research at Phocuswright. “But it is a growth market, and probably the biggest ...

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iSeatz Ancillary Survey: Consumers Admit that Supplemental Offers Aren't Annoying When Booking a Trip
PRUnderground (press release)- July 12, 2017
Phocuswright's white paper Hotel Ancillaries: An Unexplored Opportunity, written by Peter O'Connor, Senior Market Analyst of Phocuswright Inc., finds that, “[d]espite the challenges, hotels clearly see the potential of being able to better serve their ...

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New York Times

Meet Your New Data-Driven Travel Agent
New York Times- July 12, 2017
... a search and seeing a list of 150 hotels, you enter in your profile what you're looking for and a chatbot serves up a curated list of three to four in a messaging interface,” said Douglas Quinby, a senior vice president at the travel research firm ...

Travel Trade Daily

Phocuswright: APAC Leads Mobile Booking
Travel Trade Daily- July 07, 2017
According to Phocuswright, the Asia Pacific (APAC) region leads the way in terms of mobile bookings, which are projected to grow from 24 percent of the online travel market in 2015 to 37 percent this year. The combined mobile gross bookings of China ...

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Travel Market Report

Direct Communications Enable The 24/7 Travel Agent
Travel Market Report- July 03, 2017
“Travelers, especially younger ones, are comfortable using chat services and other digital communications in their personal lives, and it is crossing over into their travel lives,” said Michael Coletta, manager of research and innovation at ...

2017 Phocus Forward, The Year Ahead in Digital Travel
Tnooz- June 29, 2017
Expedia Affiliate Network (EAN) and Phocuswright have published research on the changes you can expect to see in the coming months in the travel industry – 2017 Phocus Forward, The Year Ahead in Digital Travel. Maggie Rauch from Phocuswright and ...

AdAge.com

Online Travel Agencies Go on $ummer $pending $pree
AdAge.com- June 28, 2017
Of consumers ages 18 to 34, 52% book via online travel agency sites like Booking.com or comparison sites like Kayak or Trivago, 18% book directly with hotel sites and just 14% call hotels, according to Phocuswright. Roughly 39% of older consumers use ...

Hospitality Net

Nearly 2000 Travel Industry Leaders Expected at The Phocuswright Conference 2017
Hospitality Net- June 27, 2017
For nearly 25 years, companies at the forefront of digital innovation in travel have relied upon Phocuswright to shape the discussion, encourage healthy debate and introduce the latest innovations. This market intelligence will again drive an ...

Trish Buyer is Inntopia SVP Finance and Systems Operations
GlobeNewswire (press release)- June 26, 2017
Prior to Inntopia, Trish lived in Sherman, Connecticut and worked for nine years at Phocuswright, the leading authority in travel research and events, as well as a wholly owned subsidiary of Northstar Travel Group, LLC. Late last year, she was ...

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Hospitality Net

Phocuswright Announces the European Travel Innovator Awards
Hospitality Net- May 18, 2017
Travel industry research authority, Phocuswright, has announced the award winners of the latest startup Battleground, held during Phocuswright Europe currently underway in Amsterdam. Twelve innovators took the stage to demonstrate groundbreaking ...

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Hospitality Net

Get Inside the Mind of Southeast Asian Travelers - Phocuswright
Hospitality Net- April 27, 2017
"Indonesian and Malaysian travelers also demonstrated some notable differences," said Phocuswright's research analyst, Asia Pacific, Chetan Kapoor. "Indonesian travelers were much more likely than those in other markets to travel for the purpose of ...

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Hospitality Net

Fourth Annual Phocuswright Europe Begins Next Month
Hospitality Net- April 12, 2017
Building on the success of last years' conference – which gathered over 400 attendees – Phocuswright Europe this year brings together 500 European travel leaders to network, learn and build strategic partnerships with the industry's most influential ...

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