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“Kayak killer”? Hafner, English swap barbs, talk new ventures

By Derek Catron | November 16, 2023

Kayak CEO Steve Hafner and co-founder Paul English, now with Deets, took the stage together Wednesday at The Phocuswright Conference in Fort Lauderdale. Sparks flew. Read More

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Booking Holdings posts record earnings, expects to grow AI, flight offerings

By Morgan Hines | November 2, 2023

Booking Holdings’ total revenue came in at $7.3 billion, showing a 21% increase over the same quarter last year, and adjusted EBITDA clocked at $3.3 billion - a 24% increase from the same quarter of... Read More

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Kayak, Tripadvisor on growing their in-house media studios

By Morgan Hines | September 19, 2023

In the last two years both Kayak and Tripadvisor have created content studios that are becoming a growing part of their overall businesses and spurring plans for future investment. Read More

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Steve Hafner on why Kayak is going deeper into business travel

By Mitra Sorrells | September 12, 2023

Kayak has more than 30,000 companies using it's free corporate travel tool for small- and medium-sized businesses and is now going after larger enterprises with a new product developed for PwC. Read More

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The Phocuswright Conference 2023 – program, speakers and discount

By PhocusWire | September 12, 2023

The travel industry's leaders and newest entrants gather in Fort Lauderdale November 13-16 for The Phocuswright Conference. Read More

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Google adds “cheapest time to book” in time for Christmas

By Derek Catron | August 28, 2023

Google is adding information on when fares are expected to be lowest for booking a specific destination for specific dates, similar to advice offered by Hopper, Kayak and Skyscanner. Read More

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Booking’s Fogel sees signs of “record summer travel season”

By Derek Catron | August 3, 2023

Booking Holdings enjoyed record gross travel bookings in Q2, but CEO Glenn Fogel sees even better things coming based on July figures. Read More

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Booking.com adds conversational trip planning with ChatGPT

By Mitra Sorrells | June 27, 2023

For now the chat platform is integrated only with Booking.com’s accommodation booking experience, but the company plans to add flights, ground transportation and other trip components in the future. Read More

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Microsoft, Trip.com and Kayak on their work with ChatGPT

By Derek Catron | June 15, 2023

Generative AI dominated conversations at Phocuswright Europe even before the discussion turned to its best-known tool. Read More

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Priceline partners with Google to deploy generative AI

By Mitra Sorrells | June 6, 2023

Priceline will use the generative AI technology to create a new virtual travel assistant chatbot to improve internal workflows. Read More

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Kayak launches “best time to travel” tool

By Derek Catron | June 2, 2023

The “Best Time to Travel” tool incorporates predictive data from Kayak’s billions of travel queries to forecast future flight and hotel prices, allowing travelers to compare predicted pricing against... Read More

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ChatGPT plugins' potential impact on the travel booking experience

By Mario Gavira | May 22, 2023

Can chatbot plugins bring a new, conversational layer to the decade-old search and booking interface in travel? Read More

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Booking Holdings sees opportunity to recreate "human travel agent” with generative AI

By Mitra Sorrells | May 4, 2023

The comments regarding generative AI came as the company shared its first quarter financial results, which had both gross bookings and room nights at record levels for a quarter. Read More

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Fixing the digital trust issue in ChatGPT for travel

By Mitra Sorrells | April 27, 2023

Experts in the field of decentralized identity say verifiable credentials combined with a decentralized communications protocol can enable the full power of ChatGPT to act as a virtual assistant for... Read More

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ChatGPT: A chatty dozen of travel tools and services

By Derek Catron | April 18, 2023

Travel companies are using ChatGPT for everything from personalized itinerary recommendations to social media marketing and 24/7 customer support. Read More

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