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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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GenAI and Emerging Tech Use Among Travelers
This article is derived from the findings of Phocuswright’s 2023 consumer travel surveys in Europe, Canada, and the United States, and explores travelers’ awareness of and attitudes toward GenAI and...
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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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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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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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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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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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Weekly Research Insights Articles
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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Decisions guided by trust: Social media conversion in travel
In travel, social media plays a pivotal role in influencing trip decisions. But converting social...
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Some segments have a higher propensity to be swayed by social content
Social media plays a pivotal role in influencing travel decisions, but converting social media...
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The top 15 global travel markets: North America, APAC and Western Europe lead the way
North America, APAC and Western Europe continue to lead in terms of market size, with the top 15...
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Travel Startups Interactive Database
A redesigned database of 8,000+ startups, 11,000+ funding rounds, aggregated data of investment trends...
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An overview of the Europe startup landscape
With over 2,500 travel startups tracked in Phocuswright’s Travel Startups Interactive Database, this...
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5 things to know about the U.S. hotel market
The U.S. hotel & lodging market had a record year in 2023, thanks to robust demand and historically...
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The true impact of social strategy
For social marketing in travel, the waters remain murky. On the one hand, engagement with social...
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TripAdmit secures $1M in funding to expand internationally
TripAdmit, which automates tipping and trip review collection for tour operators, plans to expand its...
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Phocuswire's weekly travel tech news briefs: Amadeus, Thayer Ventures, Sabre, Cloudbeds and more
Keep up with all the latest people, product and partner news from around the global travel industry in...
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The travel industry payment gap
The travel industry historically struggles with emerging trends and technologies, and the topic of...
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Chesky on Airbnb's future in travel and beyond
Chesky referenced Apple and Amazon’s trajectory - what if Apple never launched the iPod, or Amazon...
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Agoda’s co-founder Rosenstein: AI will widen the gap between haves and have-nots in travel
Robert Rosenstein said that while smaller companies can be faster and more nimble, the fact is the...
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Hotel Engine raises $140M, rebrands to Engine
The company plans to use the funding to support product development, including the launch of flight...
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Marriott CEO on shifting loyalty from transactional to emotional
Hotel loyalty programs have traditionally been focused on room nights as the primary redemption...
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Mindtrip secures $12M investment, launches group chat
Mindtrip will use the investment to scale operations as it rolls out of a series of collaborative...
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Point.me secures $15M to expand travel rewards search platform
The investment was led by Nyca Partners and Citi Ventures with Samsung Next, RiverPark Ventures, Meta...
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Flyr launches airline retailing management system
Flyr has integrated artificial intelligence with a modular design that’s meant to be flexible to give...
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