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Articles tagged “tech”

Online Travel

Booking’s Connected Trip Vs. Hopper’s Fintech Strategies

Booking Holdings and Hopper are attacking travelers' anxieties in wildly divergent ways. Booking is trying to soothe them, while Hopper doesn't mind a little angst if it means more fintech revenue.

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

Booking’s Connected Trip Vs. Hopper’s Fintech Strategies

News Blog

Sonder Gets a Chain Code in Sabre and Amadeus to Push Move Into Corporate Travel

Sonder has been trying to up its footprint in corporate travel, announced that it now has a chain code, SS, in the Sabre and Amadeus global distribution systems. Business travelers at an airport. Source: Getty Images When travel agents are looking to book corporate clients in Sonder properties, having that chain code makes it easier…

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

News Blog

Ex-Spirit CEO Ben Baldanza Thinks Electric Planes Face Huge Commercial Challenges

The future commercial use of electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles, or eVTOLs, will be "highly challenging," according to former Spirit Airlines CEO Ben Baldanza, who's a fan of the technology's potential, but thinks industrial and military applications would take place first. The Archer Aviation Maker aircraft on its first flight in December 2021. Baldanza,…

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago
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Tourism

How Explore Butte County Grew Organic Traffic with Localhood Stories

With paid advertising becoming more competitive and expensive, destination marketing organizations (DMOs) can turn to organic traffic for a marketing boost. In this video, Ashley Baer, marketing manager and content creator at Explore Butte County, shares how the DMO used visual stories to increase its visibility on Google, enhance its website content, and help local partners engage with visitors.

CrowdRiff + Skift | 2 years ago

How Explore Butte County Grew Organic Traffic with Localhood Stories

Online Travel

Hype Over New Online Travel Disruptors Is So Overblown

Old entrants like Google and hotel brands will likely be much more disruptive to the future of online travel agencies than Chase, Uber, and Travel + Leisure.

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

Hype Over New Online Travel Disruptors Is So Overblown

News Blog

New U.S. Tourism Strategy Calls for More Touchless Tech

From facial biometrics at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints to visas that don't require boarding foils, the new U.S. Department of Commerce strategy to boost international arrivals calls for tech improvements to better verify identities and expedite the travel process. Passport kiosks. Department of Homeland Security. Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/dhsgov/16460568027/in/photostream/ Among the recommended tech-oriented actions citied in the…

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

News Blog

The Complexity Headache That Expedia CEO Peter Kern Inherited in 1 Slide

Ever wonder about the daunting challenge that Expedia Group CEO Peter Kern inherited from predecessors Dara Khosrowshahi and Mark Okertstrom when Kern took the chief executive spot under Barry Diller in 2020? The pandemic notwithstanding, Expedia Group captured its infrastructure issues in one slide as part of an investor presentation at Cowen 50th Anniversary Technology,…

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

Short-Term Rentals

Bosses of Futurestay and Evolve Split Over Best Strategies for Short-Term Rental Owners

Myriad ways exist for hosts to build their short-term rental businesses. And if the choices are complex today, just wait for the rush of new vendors and operators seeing gold in them hills.

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

Bosses of Futurestay and Evolve Split Over Best Strategies for Short-Term Rental Owners

Online Travel

Expedia: You’ll Have to Wait Longer to See Hard Data on Our Rebuild Progress

Expedia Group is still very much caught up in making over the company. Is it working? Company officials are basically telling Wall Street — trust us, we think this is going to be good.

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

Expedia: You’ll Have to Wait Longer to See Hard Data on Our Rebuild Progress
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Travel Technology

Megatrends 2022 Video: Why Fintech Will Be Key to the Future of Travel

In this video conversation from Skift’s Megatrends 2022 event, Skift Founder and CEO Rafat Ali spoke with Dakota Smith, chief strategy officer at Hopper, about how fintech products are ushering in a more nimble version of travel insurance attuned to the diversifying needs of today’s traveler.

Hopper | Cloud + Skift | 2 years ago

Megatrends 2022 Video: Why Fintech Will Be Key to the Future of Travel