This is a viewpoint from Robert Meza, head of travel at the ENTERTAINER. Take a minute to imagine that you’ve just arrived in Barcelona (or Bangkok, London, Perth, you choose). You’ve got just 12 hours before your connecting flight. Do you reach for your guidebook and search out the…
This is a viewpoint from Matt Walker, chief storyteller at Likewhere. Google and Facebook continue to help their airline partners by releasing all manner of travel-related products. In fact, they are being so helpful, it’s not hard to see a future where airline brands can stop wasting money on…
This is the first part in a series of articles spun out of tnoozLIVE@Arival, recorded live at the Arival in-destination event held at the LINQ in Las Vegas. More clips to come! To learn more about how to bring tnoozLIVE@ to your event, please email Kerry Cannon. My favorite…
HomeAway has been given an noticeably higher profile in parent company Expedia Inc‘s latest earnings release, with bosses talking in terms of its “ecommerce transition” adding that it is also “growing significantly faster than the overall alternative accommodations market”. Mark Okerstrom was leading his first earnings call as CEO…
The developers behind App in the Air presented a live demo of its new artificial intelligence-powered, voice-search enabled, augmented reality booking experience during Innovation Day at IATA’s World Passenger Summit in Barcelona this week. From the stage, App in the Air founder and CTO, Sergey Pronin, gave a full preview of…
Chinese technology companies are often accused of being knockoffs of American firms, but Silicon Valley startup LimeBike’s recent 50 million Series B round shows that the copycat model can apply in the reverse direction as well. Based in San Mateo, California, LimeBike has become the largest American company in…
Just a year after launching its managed services for short-term vacation rentals, GuestReady has made its first acquisition and secured seed funding to the tune of £2.3 million. The cash injection, says CEO and co-founder Alexander Limpert, will be used to expand into two more cities in the UK…
This is a viewpoint from Jeff Howard, founder of HotelsNearDCMetro.com.Opinions and views expressed by all guest contributors do not necessarily reflect those of tnooz, its writers, or its partners. For five years our boutique travel websites have been sending a stream of traffic through various hotel affiliate programs. We…
IATA and the Airports Council International (ACI) will collaborate on an initiative to further improve travel technology and journey design. The program, called NEXTT (New Experience in Travel and Technologies) is designed to cut out excess steps and make passenger processing faster as the industry prepares to serve 7.8…
This is an article from China Travel News.This article appears as part of the tnooz sponsored content initiative. With around 300 million registered users, Ctrip has accumulated a high volume of data and insights which can be used by global destinations looking to market their appeal to Ctrip’s audience….