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Articles tagged “amazon”

Online Travel

Kayak and Amazon Echo Now Offer Voice-Powered Hotel Booking

Kayak is the first online travel player to let shoppers book hotels via Amazon's smart speakers. While the concept has promise, its price comparison process still has to improve before it becomes useful to the average traveler.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 7 years ago

Kayak and Amazon Echo Now Offer Voice-Powered Hotel Booking

Food and Drink

Chefs+Tech: When a Restaurant Halfway Around the World Tastes Like Home

Technology allows chefs to share and replicate food trends and ideas — fast. Some call this homogenization boring, but it's actually collaboration on a global scale.

Kristen Hawley, Chefs+Tech | 7 years ago

Chefs+Tech: When a Restaurant Halfway Around the World Tastes Like Home

Hotels

Best Western Is Testing Voice-Activated Rooms

Like Marriott and other hotel companies, Best Western is figuring out if there's a home for Amazon's Alexa in the hotel guest room.

Deanna Ting, Skift | 7 years ago

Best Western Is Testing Voice-Activated Rooms

Online Travel

Amazon Echo Hears a Challenge From Google in Voice-Powered Travel Search

Despite the hype, neither the Amazon Echo nor the Google Home is delivering the goods yet for voice-command travel research. Google's effort has the most promise, though.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 7 years ago

Amazon Echo Hears a Challenge From Google in Voice-Powered Travel Search

Hotels

Wynn Las Vegas Bets Big on Amazon Echo and Voice-Activated Rooms

Will the Amazon Echo eventually become the new iHome docking station of the past? Will this technology be outdated in just a year or more? And more importantly: Is this what people really want from their hotel experience just yet?

Deanna Ting, Skift | 7 years ago

Wynn Las Vegas Bets Big on Amazon Echo and Voice-Activated Rooms

Food and Drink

Chefs+Tech: Robots, Algorithms, Logistics and … Food

Foodies will tell you that cooking is just chemistry. But getting it to diners is a combination of UPS and Google.

Chefs+Tech | 7 years ago

Chefs+Tech: Robots, Algorithms, Logistics and … Food

Online Travel

Expedia Turns to Amazon Alexa for Its First Attempt at Voice Search

When it comes to new tech platforms and technologies such as voice-activated search with Amazon Alexa, the advantage, in the short term, goes to the big travel tech and marketing companies, including online travel agencies and metasearch companies, because they have the engineering staff and other resources to address these disruptions.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 7 years ago

Expedia Turns to Amazon Alexa for Its First Attempt at Voice Search
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Airlines

What Airlines Can Learn from Amazon’s Customer-First Approach

For airlines looking to become more customer-centric, it's a smart idea to look towards the digital retail space. Download this free report from Skift and Sabre to learn more!

Sabre + Skift | 8 years ago

What Airlines Can Learn from Amazon’s Customer-First Approach

Online Travel

Amazon Chickened Out of Travel – 25 Moments in 2015

25 Moments that Mattered in 2015: To make our selection of 25 moments, we thought back to the stories that drove reader engagement and sparked discussion among both travel experts and the general public. Some stories were quick blips that represented bigger things while others were narratives that built slowly through out the year. Each one, though, spoke to where we are right now when it comes to the big business of global travel.

Skift | 8 years ago

Amazon Chickened Out of Travel – 25 Moments in 2015

Airlines

JetBlue’s Amazon Theater and the Benefits of Having Your Own Terminal

JFK's terminal 5 shouldn't be an exception to other terminals across the U.S. and JetBlue's able to do a lot of surprise and delight with its own space as it continues bridging the gap between the pre- and in-flight experience.

Dan Peltier, Skift | 8 years ago

JetBlue’s Amazon Theater and the Benefits of Having Your Own Terminal