This is an article from China Travel Daily.It appears as part of the tnooz sponsored content initiative. Taiwan-based travel-experience platform KKday has raised $10.5 million in funding. The round was  led by Japanese travel company H.I.S. with existing investor MindWorks Ventures also partcipating. The funding will go towards expansion…

Airbnb marked its tenth anniversary with a re-thinking of the company‘s approach to its listings, its search, and its general approach to matching a traveler to the best listing for a specific trip. As part of our live approach to coverage, I took the front row at San Francisco’s…

It’s hard to believe but it’s been a decade since Airbnb first peddled Obama O’s and Captain McCain cereal in an early example of growth marketing. Yep, Airbnb has just turned ten! As part of a massive event, including a gaggle of 150 press flown in from around the…

Sponsored by eNett International A new research report carried out by Edgar, Dunn and Company identifies a dozen best practices for OTAs and other intermediaries to implement as part of their strategy to minimise their exposure to fraud, including a look at how to make payments to suppliers more…

Covering events is always a marathon — from deciding which sessions to attend, managing interview requests, and capturing content from the keynotes, there are many moving parts. Often, this means that there’s coverage of stellar content that gets overlooked in the crush of other stories — and then is…

Sponsored by ITB Berlin. Negotiating the travel tech landscape can be confusing – so many solutions, so many vendors, so many choices. For those who need help to guide them through the options, the trends and the contexts, a good place to start is the conference program at eTravel…

A new study by Travelport find that Millennials’ preference for bleisure travel drives a need for smoother digital interactions throughout the journey. The survey of 11,000 travelers in 19 countries who took at least one return flight in the last year finds that the adequacy and availability of digital…

Cash is going out of business. Alternative payments are taking over the world with some already comfortable with touchless payments, invisible payments and mobile wallets as part of their everyday shopping habit. Now, Barclaycard says this trend is spilling over to the business travel space. As the popularity of…

tnoozLIVE is back! This time we’re going live from Travel Technology Europe, which features travel and hospitality technology vendors from around the world. Held in London, the show is celebrating its 15th year. Our managing editor Linda Fox, along with contributing editor Martin Cowen, will be interviewing executives from companies…

This is a viewpoint from Gitit Greenberg, director of digital insights at SimilarWeb. With digital giants like Airbnb, TripAdvisor, and a myriad of others battling for dominance, the travel industry has become home to some of the most exciting online brands. Visibly missing from this mix are the companies…