Articles tagged “ota”

Tour Operators

Klook Launches Banking Partnership to Bolster Thai Travel to Japan

Klook's partnership with Krungsri signals its first step in growing its Pan-Asian travel marketplace footprint since its funding raise at the end of last year.

Klook Launches Banking Partnership to Bolster Thai Travel to Japan
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Online Travel

How Justfly Is Using Generative AI to Reshape the OTA Experience

With generative AI, online travel agencies (OTAs) are gaining a competitive edge by offering personalized customer service and efficient issue resolutions to couple with their extensive range of travel deals and offerings.

How Justfly Is Using Generative AI to Reshape the OTA Experience
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Online Travel

Q&A: How Vrbo Is Building Trust With Vacation Rental Guests and Partners

Growth in the vacation rental sector has surpassed pre-pandemic levels and shows no signs of slowing. Leveling up the traveler experience through consistency, reliability, and transparency will help hosts and online travel agencies (OTAs) stand out in the crowded space.

Q&A: How Vrbo Is Building Trust With Vacation Rental Guests and Partners

Tourism

Skift India Report: Tourism Job Postings Surge

Smaller cities in India are playing a significant role in the resurgence of jobs in the travel and tourism sector, indicating a broader geographic distribution of tourism opportunities.

Skift India Report: Tourism Job Postings Surge

Tour Operators

TourRadar Adds 2 Partners for Organized Adventure Tours

Some experiences can take place in a day. Others need at least a week. It requires complex travel planning, but the adventure far outweighs these challenges, which is why TourRadar wants to extend its travel product reach to more travel companies, especially online travel agencies.

TourRadar Adds 2 Partners for Organized Adventure Tours

Online Travel

Booking’s CEO Warns About Overregulation: I’m Against Raising Prices

Booking Holding's acquisition of eTraveli serves as a litmus test for how far regulatory bodies can go to curb market consolidation.

Booking’s CEO Warns About Overregulation: I’m Against Raising Prices

Tour Operators

Klook Targets Growth in China and Gen Z Travelers

With Gen Z and Millennials making up most of Klook's audience, the experiences marketplace is heavily focused on these groups' spending habits and shifting approaches to discovering new trip ideas.

Klook Targets Growth in China and Gen Z Travelers
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Travel Booking

Open Distribution: A New Hotel Booking Model for Hospitality’s Future

The hotel booking ecosystem is weighed down by siloed software systems, middlemen who take a piece of the RevPAR pie, and guests who don’t have as much control over their experiences as they should. The founder of Impala spoke to SkiftX about how to eliminate these issues with a new model: Open Distribution.

Open Distribution: A New Hotel Booking Model for Hospitality’s Future
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SkiftX

Skift Summit Video: Navigating What’s Next for OTA Marketing

In this Skift Online Travel and Distribution Summit video we hear from Ashley Robinson, SVP of customer success at Rokt, about how online travel agencies (OTAs) can develop successful marketing strategies and set themselves up for success as travel starts to recover.

Skift Summit Video: Navigating What’s Next for OTA Marketing

Announcements

Get Ready for the Skift Future of Online Travel and Distribution Summit on February 17

Join us as we kick off 2021 with our first sector-specific summit this February, exploring the fast-paced world of online travel and distribution. Hear from Skift editors and analysts as they dissect pendulum swings and hear what leaders have in store for this year.

Get Ready for the Skift Future of Online Travel and Distribution Summit on February 17