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Articles tagged “travel technology”

Online Travel

Skift CEO Video: Travel Planning and Booking Are About to Converge, Are You Ready?

Integrated conversational AI has immense potential to transform travel search, planning and booking. Watch our CEO break down how search and booking engines need to step up on innovation.

Sherry Sun | 1 year ago

Skift CEO Video: Travel Planning and Booking Are About to Converge, Are You Ready?

Startups

FreshBus Raises $3.1 Million for Electric Buses Across India

The roundup this week: Four travel tech startups based in four different continents, all focused on ground transportation.

Justin Dawes | 1 year ago

FreshBus Raises $3.1 Million for Electric Buses Across India

Travel Technology

Hotelbeds Looking Outside Itself for Tech Innovation

Hotelbeds is joining some other travel tech companies in looking outside for innovative ideas. It's not on the level of adding a venture capital arm as some major travel companies have done, but it follows a similar idea.

Justin Dawes | 1 year ago

Hotelbeds Looking Outside Itself for Tech Innovation

Travel Technology

Sabre Pushes Through Setbacks Toward Positive Recovery

Sabre continues to diversify its business by adding technology products, a good investment as the travel industry slowly but surely changes over the years.

Justin Dawes | 1 year ago

Sabre Pushes Through Setbacks Toward Positive Recovery
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Travel Booking

Q&A: Why E-Commerce Relevancy Is Key for Today’s Blended Travel Era

As blended travel comes of age, traditional segmentation is no longer effective. This year will require a major overhaul in e-commerce strategies to ensure the individualized needs and expectations of the blended traveler are addressed in a more relevant way throughout the customer journey.

Rokt + Skift | 1 year ago

Q&A: Why E-Commerce Relevancy Is Key for Today’s Blended Travel Era

Online Travel

Inside Generative AI’s Promise for Travel Booking

Bumpy roads are inevitable, as is discerning the hype from genuine application, but travel companies should be considering their role in a world powered by generative AI and how to get there. If they haven't started, they are already behind.

Justin Dawes | 1 year ago

Inside Generative AI’s Promise for Travel Booking

Tour Operators

The Tours and Activities Sector Doesn’t Want Its Own Apple Plug Problem

Standardization of outdated tours and activities systems by a non-profit group called OCTO sees a teething-problem approach to modernization. It leaves little incentive for more established operators to get involved. How long will this attempt to customize the sector take to reach an innovation tipping point?

Selene Brophy | 1 year ago

The Tours and Activities Sector Doesn’t Want Its Own Apple Plug Problem

News Blog

Caesars Now Sells Flights and Vacation Packages

Caesars Entertainment is adding an online travel agency business model, as it launches a new website that lets guests books flights as well as their accommodation. The resort operator’s new “Caesars Rewards Travel Bundle” venture, as reported by Skift’s Daily Lodging Report, is powered by Snowstorm Technologies. To coincide with the new Caesars website (caesars.com/flights-hotels)…

Matthew Parsons | 1 year ago

Travel Technology

Why This Travel Tech Founder Is Leaving the Industry

It's refreshing to hear startup founders and business leaders talk about their mistakes, what they learned, and what is next. It does not happen often enough.

Justin Dawes | 1 year ago

Why This Travel Tech Founder Is Leaving the Industry

Travel Technology

Amadeus Execs Offer Glimpse Into Tech Investment Trends for Next Decade

Once travelers have decided to book a trip, they don't want to jump through hoops to pay for it. Travel companies should prioritize ways to making paying as easy as possible.

Justin Dawes | 1 year ago

Amadeus Execs Offer Glimpse Into Tech Investment Trends for Next Decade