Articles tagged “privacy”

Short-Term Rentals

Airbnb Debuts a Private Rooms Category With New Privacy Features for Shared Stays

Airbnb improves on more privacy, price transparency and host engagement as part of its annual summer release upgrades.

Srividya Kalyanaraman | 1 month ago

Airbnb Debuts a Private Rooms Category With New Privacy Features for Shared Stays

Transport

Uber Takes Further Steps Into Travel Through Itinerary Aggregator, and More

Uber may not become a superapp anytime soon, but wants to become a bigger part of your journey and everything you do in it, that is for sure.

Dennis Schaal | 1 year ago

Uber Takes Further Steps Into Travel Through Itinerary Aggregator, and More

News Blog

Airbnb Launches Trust and Safety Advisory Group

Airbnb announced the formation of a Trust & Safety Advisory Coalition to counsel the company on human trafficking, child safety, fire safety, privacy and online safety, community safety, women's safety, extremism and dangerous organizations, and mental health. The advisory group members include 22 organizations ranging from Tech Against Terrorism and the National Network to End…

Dennis Schaal | 1 year ago
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Media and PR

Skift Hospitality and Marketing Summit Video: Optimizing Travel Marketing for the Era of Mass Personalization

Travel's recovery is already underway. But when it comes to crafting successful marketing, the strategies that worked before Covid-19 won't necessarily work now. In this conversation from Skift's Hospitality and Marketing Summit, we hear from Neustar's Marc Vermut, about how travel and hospitality marketers are adapting their marketing and data collection practices for this new era.

Neustar + Skift | 2 years ago

Skift Hospitality and Marketing Summit Video: Optimizing Travel Marketing for the Era of Mass Personalization

Online Travel

Apple’s Privacy Update May Cripple Some Travel Ad Campaigns

Travel marketers need to fine-tune their digital advertising tactics in response to Apple's imminent privacy move. New data from adtech firm Criteo underscores the opportunities as well as the challenges.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 2 years ago

Apple’s Privacy Update May Cripple Some Travel Ad Campaigns

Online Travel

U.S. Needs to Tighten Oversight of How Airlines Use Facial Recognition Data: New Government Report

Facial recognition tech divides people. They say either that it's faster and contactless, or that it invades people's privacy. But questions about data security matter, too.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 3 years ago

U.S. Needs to Tighten Oversight of How Airlines Use Facial Recognition Data: New Government Report

Online Travel

How Apple’s New Privacy Effort Will Impact Travel Marketing

Privacy efforts will keep chipping away at old school digital advertising practices. Travel marketers need to persuade more consumers to consent to share their data directly. They should consider new ideas, like creating media networks and data co-ops, to help.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 3 years ago

How Apple’s New Privacy Effort Will Impact Travel Marketing

Media and PR

Hotel Marketers Prepare for the Death of Tracking Cookies

You know that hotel ad that appears on every site as you surf the internet? Well, the underlying tech behind it, called the cookie, isn't long for this world. Neither is the mobile identifier on cell phones that some advertisers also use for tracking. So what's a hotel marketer to do?

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 3 years ago

Hotel Marketers Prepare for the Death of Tracking Cookies
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Online Travel

How Security, Privacy, and Trust Can Help Travel Brands Offer a More Human Experience

Utilizing data is an integral part of how travel brands can offer a better customer experience. But securing this data, protecting customer privacy, and building trust can be equally essential to supporting both the human experience and the bottom line.

Deloitte + Skift | 3 years ago

How Security, Privacy, and Trust Can Help Travel Brands Offer a More Human Experience

Tourism

Toronto Pushback Shows Path Forward for Smart Cities Is Full of Compromises

By pushing back against Sidewalk Labs, the city of Toronto has shown that the future of the smart city will be forged by compromise and collaboration with local authorities.

Andrew Sheivachman, Skift | 4 years ago

Toronto Pushback Shows Path Forward for Smart Cities Is Full of Compromises