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Articles tagged “technology”

Tourism

Destinations Look Beyond Bad White-Label Tech to Drive Bookings Themselves

Destination marketers are skilled at helping travelers plan trips, but they're poor at encouraging transactions. Are they missing a trick by not driving more direct bookings and, thus, helping to level the playing field for the smallest travel suppliers?

Sean O'Neill | 2 years ago

Destinations Look Beyond Bad White-Label Tech to Drive Bookings Themselves

Travel Technology

How Much Hotel Tech Investment Is Just Way Too Much

Some hoteliers risk being overly ambitious in their tech efforts coming out of the pandemic.

Sean O'Neill | 2 years ago

How Much Hotel Tech Investment Is Just Way Too Much

Travel Technology

Nordic Choice Embraces Hotel Tech Reset

How Nordic Choice recently handled a ransomware attack, sold a hotel tech subsidiary, and kept employees engaged while opening 16 hotels makes it an interesting tech example for other hotels.

Sean O'Neill | 2 years ago

Nordic Choice Embraces Hotel Tech Reset

Startups

Where This Fidelity Venture Fund Is Placing Travel Tech Bets

Many people wonder why some travel startups attract venture funding while others don't. In this interview, Gaurav Tuli, a partner at Fidelity's F-Prime, clears up some of the mystery.

Sean O'Neill | 2 years ago

Where This Fidelity Venture Fund Is Placing Travel Tech Bets

Airlines

2 Visions for Airline Distribution

Airline distribution's fate may lie somewhere between the skeptical view of Tom Klein, the former CEO of Sabre, and the optimistic view of Alice Ferrari, the CEO of Kyte.

Sean O'Neill | 2 years ago

2 Visions for Airline Distribution

Hotels

Why This Hybrid Hospitality Brand Ripped Out Its Tech Stack

Einstein said space-time is warped by matter and energy. The Student Hotel has a big idea, too. It thinks about what it sells in a matrix of space and time. Hoteliers: Study up.

Sean O'Neill | 2 years ago

Why This Hybrid Hospitality Brand Ripped Out Its Tech Stack

Hotels

Shiji Aims to Fill an Overlooked Hole in Hotel Distribution

No one has cornered the market in enterprise software for hotels. This fractured sector creates opportunities for vendors. One notable pitch is Shiji's call for "total distribution."

Sean O'Neill | 2 years ago

Shiji Aims to Fill an Overlooked Hole in Hotel Distribution

Business Travel

Corporate Travel Buyers Face Perilous Exposure to Industry’s $540 Billion Debt

Airlines, hotels, taxi firms and travel management companies owe more than half a trillion dollars. Here's how companies can offset price surges as their suppliers look to pay off mounting debts.

Matthew Parsons | 2 years ago

Corporate Travel Buyers Face Perilous Exposure to Industry’s $540 Billion Debt
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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

Travel Technology

Decoding Yanolja Cloud and Its Hotel Software Strategy

Yanolja Cloud is the world's largest seller of hotel software whose strategy you don't understand. Here are a few "cheat codes," courtesy of the brand's chief strategy officer.

Sean O'Neill | 2 years ago

Decoding Yanolja Cloud and Its Hotel Software Strategy