Amazon partnered with the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation to sell train tickets.

Booking.com will discontinue its BookingSuite services
(WebDirect, BookingButton, RateIntelligence and ChoicePro) starting on November 30 to focus “on growing our core accommodations business.”

According to an Expedia study, “travelers are 57% more likely to book their travel through an OTA now than before COVID-19.”

According to a Travel Leaders Group survey, 70% of US and Canadian travelers plan to take a holiday in 2021…

… On the other hand, a study by YouGov showed that only one in 10 UK adults is planning a trip abroad over the next six months.

Hilton launched its WorkSpaces initiative: guests can use hotel rooms as remote offices. Rooms provide a desk, a chair, and free WiFi, together with food and drinks.

Like the majority of metasearch engines, Trivago launched a CPA model as well as an alternative to the classic CPC model.

According to a recent Google study, private accommodation are recovering faster than hotels, as “vacation rental is perceived safer, easier to practice social distancing”

Google is testing organic listings of its metasearch results. Thanks to Evan Davies for the finding

Despite the situation, Italy maintained TTG and Hospitality Day fairs.

Italy National Tourism Fund
Ian Schrager: the industry will return to the same normal we’ve always had
An old tuberculosis vaccine could also protect against #COVID-19
Radisson and Zoom hybrid online conferences
Google Meet 60 minutes limit
Twitter and DMs
How will The Hotels of the Future look like?
Amazon launched “Explore”
Koddi and Tripadvisor recovery initiative
A US man sued by The Sea View Resort on a TripAdvisor’s review.

1. Virtual World Travel Market London
2. Marriott good news
3. Manhattan room inventory according to eHotelier.
4. The Peninsula Hotels replace Oracle with Shiji
5. TikTok, Oracle and Walmart
6. "The death of hotels," wrote Skift's Dennis Schaal, "was greatly exaggerated."
7. Thomas Cook relaunched itself as an OTA.
8. eMarketer figures on ad spending
9. 115 destinations have reduced their travel restrictions.
10. Booking.com now allows listed properties to offer weekly and monthly rates.

1. Airbnb's IPO.
2. Coca-Cola + IBM
3. Google vs. LinkedIn
4. Photoshop vs. fakes
5. Google launches "To Do,"
6. Accor merging with InterContinental Hotels?
7. Marriott's data breach
8. Agoda's day-use feature
9. SpaceX raises $1.9 billion
10. Zoom's revenue +355%

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A talk by André Baljeu, Jordan Hollander, Simone Puorto and Mark Fancourt
techtalk.travel, HotelTechReport.com, Travel Singularity & TRAVHOTECH, FOODnBEVTECH & Testbed Vegas


Ten years from now. Some might say we would be mad to make a prediction. We've decided we will anyway. Tune in for a vision of hospitality ten years down the road.

Improve Operational Tasks Workflow, Optimize Revenue Performance, Apply Post-COVID-19 Protocols, And Cut Hotel Expenses By Up To 30%

Special Guests:
Svetlana Udalov (HKeeper)
Matthijs Welle (MEWS)
Andrea Spalletti Trivelli (Villa Spalletti Trivelli)
Micheal Mccartan (Sciant)

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