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Asia Pacific Travel Market Report 2023-2027
This report provides comprehensive market sizing and projections for the Asia Pacific travel industry from 2019-2027, including analysis of key segments, country-level share and trends, distribution...
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Travel Innovation and Technology Trends 2025
Phocuswright’s Travel Innovation and Technology Trends 2025 aims to provide an in-depth overview of the real-time developments surrounding the travel industry, including key focal points on the impact...
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Phocuswright's Travel Innovation and Technology Trends 2025
The most significant innovation trends in travel technology and distribution for 2025 and beyond.
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Europe Travel Market Report 2023-2027
Travel demand remained strong as ever for the European market in 2023. Achieving an impressive 20% year-over-year growth, the market surpassed 2019 gross bookings. However, persistent inflation and...
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India’s OTAs: Superapps in the Making?
Phocuswright’s India’s OTAs: Superapps in the Making? examines the ever-dynamic Indian OTA sector, focusing on growth and transformation by market players.
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Travel Forward: Data, Insights and Trends for 2025
Phocuswright's Travel Forward: Data, Insights and Trends for 2025 provides broadscale insights into the $1.61 trillion global travel market, offering essential data for understanding industry trends and...
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U.S. Travel Agency Landscape 2024
U.S. Travel Agency Landscape 2024 is part of a joint research project with Phocuswright and Travel Weekly, tracking the travel agency distribution landscape and overall market size.
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U.S. Short-Term Rentals 2025
Phocuswright’s U.S. Short-Term Rentals 2025: is a comprehensive consumer research study focused on sustainability in the incredibly dynamic short-term rental travel segment modern travel environment.
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Travel Metric of the Month 2025
Phocuswright’s Travel Metric of the Month 2025 features fresh travel industry research published throughout the year, showcasing key data across our market sizing, consumer research, and tech and...
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True Automated AI in Travel Is Coming
The landscape of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has profoundly shifted since the debut of ChatGPT in November 2022, introducing a new era marked by innovations such as autonomous agents....
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Travel Startups Interactive Database
Phocuswright has tracked the travel startup landscape for well over a decade. During this time, the digital travel ecosystem has undergone tremendous transformation. Until the COVID-19 pandemic hit,...
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U.S. Travel Market Report 2023-2027
Following the robust 2022 recovery, the U.S. travel market is still re-establishing travel normality, and therefore some fluctuation is ongoing. Featuring healthy 13% year-over-year growth in 2023, the...
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The State of Travel Startups 2024
Phocuswright has tracked the digital travel startup landscape for over 15 years, and as of the time of publishing this report there are nearly 8,000 companies in our Travel Startups Interactive...
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Generational spending patterns reveal strategic insights for travel brands
In-destination travel spending is far from uniform—and the latest findings from Phocuswright research...
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U.K. travel market sees mobile acceleration and a shifting infrastructure landscape
The U.K. travel market advanced 7% in 2024 to reach £53.5 billion. With online penetration climbing to...
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What’s driving Canadian travel agency growth in 2025?
Most advisors in Canada remain optimistic about the future. Key challenges include increasing travel...
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Travel startup funding falters in Q1 2025
Travel startup funding slowed to its lowest Q1 in recent years, with a 40% drop from last year. Which...
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The most significant innovation trends in travel technology and distribution for 2025 and beyond.
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Fragmentation, regulation, acceleration: The new STR playbook
The global short-term rental (STR) market reached $201.6 billion in gross bookings in 2024, following...
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Short-term rentals 2025: Navigating the next phase of growth
In this free webinar Madeline List, Phocuswright’s manager of research and special projects, shares...
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Spain 2025: Where record-breaking demand meets new competition
Once again, all records have been broken in the Spanish tourism sector in 2024, making it the...
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Experts debate GenAI’s impact on the in-destination experience
Recent capabilities of generative AI models have significant implications for the in-destination...
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Short-Term Rentals: A category at a crossroads
Once the rising star of post-pandemic travel, short-term rentals now face a new challenge: perception....
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