travel

UK Travel Firm Thomas Cook Needs $251M To Stay Afloat
UK Travel Firm Thomas Cook Needs $251M To Stay Afloat
September 20, 2019  |  International

Thomas Cook, a global travel company based in based in London, needs to find 200 million pounds for lenders or it could collapse, according to...

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Airbnb Expects To Go Public Next Year
Airbnb Expects To Go Public Next Year
September 19, 2019  |  Travel Payments

Online lodging marketplace Airbnb announced on Thursday (Sept. 19) that it wants to go public by next year, according to a release by the company.  ...

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Making Marketplaces For Experiences
Making Marketplaces For Experiences
September 04, 2019  |  Retail

Millennials, the conventional wisdom goes, are far more into experiences than they are into buying things. Some of that, according to Joshua Becker, who authors the...

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The Travel Industry’s Cross-Border B2B Payments Strategy
The Travel Industry’s Cross-Border B2B Payments Strategy
August 30, 2019  |  B2B Payments

The friction-heavy processes of the travel industry make it a prime target for FinTech innovation. By nature, travel is a sector dependent on the movement...

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Finding The Balance Between The Hotel And Homeshare Experience
Finding The Balance Between The Hotel And Homeshare Experience
August 21, 2019  |  Retail

Finding a home away from home while traveling is not an area where consumer lack options as of 2019 – but some travelers are still...

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Standard International Launches Recommendations App
Standard International Launches Recommendations App
August 15, 2019  |  Retail

Standard International, which owns the Standard hotel chain as well as boutique properties on New York’s High Line and London’s King Cross, is launching a...

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Google’s Latest Travel Move Could Boost Contextual Commerce
Google’s Latest Travel Move Could Boost Contextual Commerce
August 09, 2019  |  Retail

Make room for more contextual commerce and more retail innovation in the travel sector. That’s the view from one of Google’s latest retail-associated launches, an airfare insight...

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Personalizing Travel Planning With Artificial Intelligence Chatbots
Personalizing Travel Planning With Artificial Intelligence Chatbots
August 06, 2019  |  Retail

Some entrepreneurs come across an emerging technology and find a new way to apply to it to everyday problems. Eddy Travels Co-Founder and CEO Edmundas...

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Where Do Humans Fit Into Automated Retail?
Where Do Humans Fit Into Automated Retail?
July 29, 2019  |  Retail

The global retail automation market is expected to exceed more than $19.5 billion by 2024 at a CAGR of 11 percent between 2019 and 2024....

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