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Travel Startups Interactive Database
Phocuswright has tracked the travel startup landscape for well over a decade. During this time, the digital travel ecosystem has undergone tremendous transformation. Until the COVID-19 pandemic hit,...
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The State of Global Travel Payments 2024
Phocuswright’s The State of Global Travel Payments 2024 is the result of a comprehensive research study aiming to provide insights into emerging trends and technologies that will shape the future of...
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Europe Travel Market Report 2023-2027
Travel demand remained strong as ever for the European market in 2023. Achieving an impressive 20% year-over-year growth, the market surpassed 2019 gross bookings. However, persistent inflation and...
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U.S. Travel Market Report 2023-2027
Following the robust 2022 recovery, the U.S. travel market is still re-establishing travel normality, and therefore some fluctuation is ongoing. Featuring healthy 13% year-over-year growth in 2023, the...
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True Automated AI in Travel Is Coming
The landscape of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has profoundly shifted since the debut of ChatGPT in November 2022, introducing a new era marked by innovations such as autonomous agents....
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Travel Innovation and Technology Trends 2024
Each year, Phocuswright publishes a content series that identifies the most significant innovation trends in travel technology and distribution for the upcoming year and beyond. This year we again...
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Global Travel Market Report 2024
Phocuswright’s Global Travel Market Report 2024 provides comprehensive market sizing and projections from 2019-2026, including analysis of key segments, trends and distribution dynamics for six regions:...
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Asia Pacific Travel Market Report 2023-2027
This report provides comprehensive market sizing and projections for the Asia Pacific travel industry from 2019-2027, including analysis of key segments, country-level share and trends, distribution...
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What Google’s Cookie Reversal Means for Travel
Google's decision to reverse its plan to eliminate third-party cookies from Chrome offers a temporary reprieve for travel advertisers. However, it highlights the growing emphasis on privacy and the need...
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Scroll, Heart, Fly: Social Media’s Impact on Travel 2024
Phocuswright’s Scroll, Heart, Fly: Social Media’s Impact on Travel 2024 is a comprehensive consumer research study focused on consumer social media behavior in the modern travel environment.
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Digital and Green: The Future of Travel Regulation
This article explores how travel operators are adapting to these developments and the potential for international cooperation to reduce compliance complexity and drive sustainable growth.
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Travelers and Tech 2024: Attitudes and Usage
Phocuswright’s Travelers and Tech 2024: Attitudes and Usage is part of a comprehensive consumer research study delving into the specifics of how travel consumers employ technology in the course of trip...
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Weekly Research Insights Articles
When travelers want digital vs. human interaction
While digital interactions are preferred by more for directions, checking in, and making changes to...
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Are travelers early adopters?
The use of technology in the trip-planning path is notone-size-fits-all; for most, there is variation...
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Phocuswright Research Roundup 3Q24
It was another packed quarter for Phocuswright analysts, with 20+ publications spanning technology...
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Creators and conversion
The rate of influencer collaborations affecting converters is a prime indicator that creator...
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The cost of payments in the travel industry
Forty percent of North American respondents and 32% of European respondents pay between 3-3.9% in...
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What Google’s cookie reversal means for travel
While third-party cookies are here to stay on the world’s most popular web browser – at least for now...
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How the EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) will impact travel
Amid growing recognition of the power wielded by the Big Tech players, governments worldwide have...
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The labor shortage should be over, so why are we still worried?
The labor shortage in tourism and hospitality should be over by now, correct? Most hotels are back to...
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The travel industry payment gap
Changes in payment are not happening in isolation. As distribution and payment trends are...
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Platforms, topics and influencers: Who’s using what?
Through a better understanding of demographics that embrace social media and the psychology of why...
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Is the travel industry ready for its technology “leapfrog” moment?
New players entering travel and tourism are looking to benefit from technology platforms borne out of...
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Trivago reports continued losses, cites impairment charge
The hotel metasearch platform said it remains optimistic that it can return to top line growth...
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Progress in air travel digital wallets as live test completed
The latest test of digital identity was carried out during a round-trip Cathay Pacific flight between...
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How AI-powered search might impact travel discovery
As search dynamics evolve with the growth of generative AI-powered platforms, what should travel...
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Mews acquires meetings and events technology specialist Quotelo
Quotelo is the tenth acquisition for Mews Ventures, which most recently acquired HS3 in Germany in...
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Gray Dawes grows in Australia with acquisition of Verve Travel
The acquisition, which is Gray Dawes' sixteenth in recent years, is part of the growth strategy for...
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STARTUP STAGE: Around Us wants to transform exploration through its travel companion app
The Around Us app is built on a proprietary geographic information system that allows users to...
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Where are they now? Catching up with the Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2024
Sixteen of our Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2024 let us know how they’re doing nearly a year after...
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Supporting neurodiversity in the travel technology sector
Maria Von Foerster, CEO of RightRez, discusses how the travel technology sector can welcome and...
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PhocusWire's weekly travel tech news briefs: Sabre, Uber Business, Accelya, Concur and more
Keep up with all the latest people, product and partner news from around the global travel industry in...
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