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Ctrip sees huge potential in customized travel for growing affluent segment  PhocusWire

Ctrip and the China Outbound Tourism Research Institute have released some insight on the potential for high-net-income traveler market. The OTA sees huge ...

VIDEO: How a cruise line embarks on digital transformation  PhocusWire

Complicated products, expensive and considered purchases by consumers - just some of the elements in the cruise sector that are hard to shift to a digital-led ...

VIDEO: Questo - Battleground pitch winner at Phocuswright Europe 2019  PhocusWire

A mobile app for city exploration games in which users solve clues for discovering new places and stories.

VIDEO: Expedia on being an empire and the future of platforms  PhocusWire

The Expedia Group is a sprawling empire of a business, with online travel agencies, corporate travel agencies and investments in metasearch.

Getting Down to Business: Corporate Travel, a $1.7-Trillion Industry by 2022  APEX Media

Road warriors today are more self-sufficient and resourceful than ever: They book their own travel, do their own expenses and make room for extracurricular ...

VIDEO: Setoo - Battleground pitch winner at Phocuswright Europe 2019  PhocusWire

Empowering e-businesses to turn insurance into products consumers love and providing a new insurance experience. Noam Shapira, co-CEO at Setoo.

VIDEO: How the travel industry is preparing for Brexit  PhocusWire

With the U.K. (and continental Europe) gripped in Brexit uncertainty, the travel industry is having to put contingency plans in place to ensure business as usual ...

VIDEO: Tech heads on a digital world to decipher in travel  PhocusWire

The digital leaders in the travel industry face an infinite number of challenges and opportunities. Whether they are chief technology or digital officers, heads of ...

Amazon confirms flight booking launch (but little else known so far)  PhocusWire

Amazon gives very little away about its new travel strategy after acknowledging the appearance of flights booking on its India website.

VIDEO: Rethinking the entry of Google in travel  PhocusWire

A series of spiky (angry, even) tweets and comments during conferences over the years - that's been the mainstay of one critic of Google's role in travel.

Latin America, part 3: The evolution of buses, bikes and scooters  PhocusWire

For part three in our series on Latin America's travel industry we take a look at some developments in the ground transportation sector.

Investors and a rival on the impact of GetYourGuide's record-breaking funding round  PhocusWire

GetYourGuide's announcement yesterday of a massive $484 million Series E investment led by SoftBank Vision Fund – rumored for weeks but now confirmed ...

Romanian app awarded at competition for travel innovators organized in Amsterdam  Romania-Insider.com

Romanian travel app Questo won the People's Choice Award at Phocuswright Europe, one of the biggest travel conferences in the world, which was organized ...

VIDEO: Brent Hoberman on the missed chance to buy Booking.com  PhocusWire

Brent Hoberman co-founded lastminute.com in 1998, and his vision for the company years ago encompassed many of the services consumers have come to ...

Sounding Off: Empires on Edge ... now what?  PhocusWire

For this special edition of Sounding Off, we've collected a series of quotes from Phocuswright Europe that really got us thinking.

VIDEO: Airbnb plays down competition, says it welcomes new entries into home-sharing  PhocusWire

Speaking at Phocuswright Europe, Airbnb managing director of EMEA Jeroen Merchiers claimed: “We're not obsessed with any individual company.”

VIDEO: eDreams Odigeo CEO Dana Dunne on mobile booking, harnessing data  PhocusWire

When Dana Dunne, CEO of eDreams Odigeo, joined the online travel agency in 2015, he quickly announced a five-year strategy focused on mobile and ...

Are We There Yet? Introducing The Phocuswright Conference 2019  PhocusWire

Parse the past. Pinpoint the present. Forge the future. From the dawn of the jet age to the uncertain early days of the first scrappy online travel agencies, travel ...

How is fare disparity becoming a silent killer of airlines?  PhocusWire

Rate parity for hotels has been a favorite topic that generates a lot of questions, excitement and gets plenty of play in the media. However, the same conversation ...

MENA to become world's second fastest growing online travel market  Hotelier Middle East

44% of all activity will be conducted online by 2022, compared to 33% in 2018, study reveals - Business, Otas, Technology, Travel Technology, Middle East ...

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