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Online Travel This Week In an effort to placate guests upset with sticker shock over surprise fees at checkout, Airbnb rolled out the ability for guests to view the total price of a stay before taxes in initial search results in many parts of the world. The exceptions would be...

Skift Take The travel industry creates a substantial amount of data, and connecting the dots to actually use it for business strategy hasn’t been so simple — until now. The Airline Reporting Corporation’s cloud-based data infrastructure is delivering real-time insights to help airlines, agencies, and destinations make better decisions. Airlines...

  Amadeus Reports Global Hotel Occupancy Exceeds Pre-pandemic Levels in July and August with a Strong Q4 Forecasted - By Bertrand Cognard For the months of July – September 2022, Amadeus business intelligence data shows APAC hotel occupancy reached an average of nearly 60%,...

  Challenging economic backdrop will lead to a difficult winter for the tourism sector in Europe European Tourism Resilient in Face of low Consumer Confidence The European tourism sector successfully endured another challenging summer as worsening inflation and staff shortages threatened recovery. European airlines held...

In a downturn, sales teams that are accustomed to hitting quotas from inbound sources may suddenly find significant gaps in coverage as budgets tighten, projects are cut or postponed, and sales cycles lengthen. Indeed, elongated sales cycles have emerged as one of the most common themes from recent earnings calls....

Breeze launched service on the Westchester – Los Angeles route last week, and CEO David Neeleman was onboard. I… was not, but I was able to get some time with David in LA after he landed. David is always one to give a straight answer, and that’s why I always...

Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel - a topic he has covered since 2002. Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by...

Actual Data Tells You When To Buy Tickets To Save The Most On Airfare by Gary Leff on October 29, 2022 Google and Expedia both looked at when it’s cheapest to book tickets and is it any surprise that Google’s answers are more credible? Google found that it largely doesn’t...

Matt Goldberg recently completed his first 100 days as president and CEO of Tripadvisor, but he says “people should be writing a book about the second 100 days because that’s where the action is.”The veteran media executive became CEO of the travel information and booking website on July 1. He...