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Mobile now accounts for 35% of all online travel bookings, according to the latest research from Euromonitor.Little wonder then that online travel agencies and hotel giants have been paying particular attention to the mobile channel and their apps in recent years.Booking.com has said that more than half of its bookings are made on a mobile device, while Marriott International CEO Anthony Capuano recently stressed the increasing importance of mobile at a Morgan Stanley event.He added that the mobile experience would be further improved as the company invests in its reservation, property management and loyalty systems.Affilired is one company that has...

Skift Take: JetBlue, Qantas, United and others may be about to get a big range disappointment from Airbus' newest jet.— Edward RussellRead the Complete Story On Skift Read further. #featured #travelnews

After a tumultuous 2022 for technology investment and talent, the first half of 2023 has seen a resurgence of enthusiasm about technology’s potential to catalyze progress in business and society. Generative AI deserves much of the credit for ushering in this revival, but it stands as just one of many advances on the horizon that could drive sustainable, inclusive growth and solve complex global challenges. To help executives track the latest developments, the McKinsey Technology Council has once again identified and interpreted the most significant technology trends unfolding today. While many trends are in the early stages of adoption and scale,...

Tourism Expo Japan 2023, which will be held in Osaka in October, is set to focus on the future of travel as Japan steps up efforts to recover its tourism industry. Organised by the Japan Travel and Tourism Association, Japan Association of Travel Agents and Japan National Tourism Organization, the four-day expo will “showcase a vision of a diversified tourism industry,” according to the expo’s secretariat. Tourism Expo Japan 2023 will be held in Osaka, pictured There will also be a range of forums themed on “rethinking tourism,” which are set to be attended by the tourism ministers of 10...

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Skift Take As if pilot shortage was not a blow enough to deal with, U.S. airlines are now facing a peculiar issue of position upgrades to captain. Amrita Ghosh United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby has acknowledged that the carrier’s pilots are shunning promotion to the captain’s chair, hurting its flight capacity in the fourth quarter, confirming what Reuters reported earlier this week. Multiple pilots at United told Reuters that senior first officers have been avoiding promotion to captain as they do not want the unpredictable schedule that comes with the bigger paycheck, creating headaches for the Chicago-based company. “It’s the...

We want to help you keep up with how brands across the travel industry are exploring - and using - generative artificial intelligence solutions from companies including OpenAI, Google and more. So we're surveying technology professionals at leading travel brands, and we'll be publishing their answers periodically here. Andrew Phillips, chief technology officer at Skyscanner, is the latest to offer his thoughts on generative AI and its uses for the travel industry. We began working with generative AI in … 2020 as part of Skyscanner’s personalization efforts for travelers. AI is being used to suggest and recommend themed destinations to travelers and to sort inventory...

Skift Take Hopper critics see blood in the water. But the company has a loyal following among younger people that rivals would die for. Hopper has altered course many times before, and can make changes to shift the momentum. Dennis Schaal In the aftermath of Expedia turning off its hotel and vacation rental feed to Hopper, Steve Hafner, the CEO of travel search engine Kayak and dining platform OpenTable, thinks Hopper took advantage of the relationship. “Expedia finally wised up to Hopper’s actions,” Hafner told Skift. “They were taking Expedia’s inventory, using those rates and sales volumes to prioritize direct...

Doug O’Laughlin is the author of Fabricated Knowledge and has been writing about the interaction between semiconductors and the AI revolution for years. In this interview, we focus on Nvidia — how it rose to prominence, its importance to the large language model revolution, and the corporate and policy implications of its trillion-dollar valuation. Do note we recorded this episode before the latest reporting around possible enhanced chip controls and cloud compute restrictions. In the conversation below, we cover:Nvidia’s origin in the graphics card industry, and CEO Jensen Huang’s creation of a GPU ecosystem, which set up Nvidia to become...