From perfectly filtered social media posts to heartfelt recollections of friends, visually stunning scenes from movies, and glossy magazine covers, travelers are exposed to an array of inspiration sources that seed ideas of spectacular places they hope to one day see. But with a world of options, travelers must carefully whittle down their options to the one that most speaks to their wishes.

Eight innovators presented at the Phocuswright Europe Battleground, the pitch competition for startups, and four innovators presented at Launch, the platform for established companies to introduce new products.

U.S. travelers only take a few leisure trips a year, but travel is rarely far from their minds. Mobile devices mean that information is always at their fingertips, and travelers are eating it up. Learn more about what Phocuswright's new research graphic has to offer ...

Personalization continues to increase in importance both to travelers and the companies selling and/or operating travel services. It is now widely recognized that personalized experiences, both online and in real life, yield more satisfied customers as well as profitable brand relationships.

For many European consumers, leisure travel accounts for a significant share (if not the largest share) of their discretionary spending. Read on to explore the infographic focusing on consumers in France, Germany and the U.K.

Today, AI is touching the traveler directly and powering advanced analytics in back-end travel processes. Take a look at some of the applications and challenges along the traveler life cycle from Phocuswright's latest travel research.

Over the last 20 years, many areas of the travel industry have been transformed by waves of disruption, from technologies like the web and mobile to new product categories like home- and ride-sharing. The next wave is undoubtedly artificial intelligence (AI), a catch-all term encompassing natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, machine vision and robotics. According to Phocuswright's latest travel research report, AI is evolving from a trend to be watched to a force majeure.

Each year, Phocuswright publishes a report that discusses the most significant technology-driven issues or developments that will shape travel distribution this year and beyond. This year we again incorporate the views of our extended analyst team, who are industry experts across a range of segments, regions and topics. The report features brief introductions to in-depth discussions on the topics that will be published throughout the remainder of this year.

According to Phocuswright's recent travel research on the Australia-New Zealand (ANZ) travel landscape, improved airline performance propelled the region's travel market to grow a projected 5% in 2018. With online penetration of 44% in 2018, ANZ is one of the most mature online travel markets in Asia Pacific, though offline travel agencies remain a critical channel for complex leisure itineraries and packages in addition to business travelers.

A significant share of travel activities historically has been booked offline and in-destination. But advance bookings are increasing as more activities become discoverable and bookable online, making pre-booking easier. In addition, many pre-trip activity bookers simply like having everything planned before they leave for their trip. Recent travel market research explores the U.S. travel activities market and consumer behavior.