Articles tagged “online travel agencies”

Travelers worldwide want to purchase and manage ground transport tickets digitally, same as they typically can for flights and hotels. The industry is finally starting to respond.

Hopper is the new kid on the block. Except it's not. Founded in 2007, it spent a decade building a huge database of flight information before selling its first flight booking in 2016. The time it spent on its cutting edge price prediction capabilities have paid dividends, leading to the launch of a suite of fintech products which have been fundamental in Hopper's disruption of the legacy OTAs.

Business travel spending faces an uphill battle: Stringent corporate policies and a growing preference for video conferencing diminish prospects for reaching 2019 levels.

There’s perhaps more opportunity than ever for cybercriminals to take advantage of consumers who are increasingly getting lured in by deals that are literally too good to be true.

At a time when other vacation rental companies that went public in special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, deals are struggling, HomeToGo is paving its way toward profitability.

The banking crisis and the macroeconomic environment are new headwinds for Sonder. Optimists and fans would say the company is making modest progress, but it is taking considerably longer than the company expected last year.

Google may be behind OpenAi regarding generative AI, but it's getting closer to catching up. Interestingly, it used a few travel-relevant examples when demonstrating its latest batch of capabilities.

Travel metasearch company Trivago said on Tuesday that Johannes Thomas had become CEO and Managing Director, succeeding Axel Hefer, as the company struggles to return to its pre-IPO glory days.

Despite rising prices, many U.S. travelers are protecting their travel budgets, said the latest survey by Skift Research. We're cautiously optimistic about this trend.

Voice-based chat was hyped years ago but faded fast. The latest gains in artificial intelligence could make voice-powered search useful at last. Marketers, take note.