Decentralized Travel Booking Marketplace

whitePaper | October 14, 2022

Spontaneity is highly associated with overall well-being.Spontaneous people are dependable, agreeable and more open to experience.Generally, people who plan less for their holidays have overall better well-being.People who are more spontaneous report enjoying their holidays more,and this has a substantial positive effect on well-being.

whitePaper | August 22, 2022

Travel retail is a complex channel which includes airport retail (duty free & food services), cruise & ferry, border stores and other smaller channels. Airport retail is the biggest channel with a focus on international travellers. Retail is operated through a concession model which is costly for retailers which in turn must focus on high value and profit categories & products.

whitePaper | November 15, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic not only dramatically limited travel but also caused permanent shifts in traveler behavior, forever changing “business as usual” for airlines. No touchpoints with travelers have changed more profoundly than loyalty programs. In 2020, airline industry revenues totaled $328 billion, about 40% of revenue from the previous year, McKinsey reports. Benefits designed for frequent flyers continue to lose their efficacy as uncertainty around the return of business travel remains.

whitePaper | June 21, 2022

Prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, global tourism had experienced a 10-year period of continuous growth fueled by the expansion of the global economy and the emergence of new tourism outflow markets in Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Despite the headwinds from geopolitical and trade tensions, the slowing of economic growth as well as the collapse of Thomas Cook and certain European low-cost carriers, international tourist arrivals and receipts showed growth in 2019

whitePaper | June 1, 2022

Covid-19 is creating a make or break moment for destination marketing. With the vital flow of tourism traffic either interrupted or slowed by the pandemic, many destinations find themselves cut off from a critical source of funding used to drive future promotion and help local communities recover. Even worse, this situation has disrupted the historic symbiotic relationship between destination organizations and local tourism businesses like hotels, tour operators, restaurants, and attractions forcing them to make tough decisions about how to stay visible to travelers during this difficult moment

whitePaper | December 6, 2019

2019 was a year of expansion for hospitality worldwide. More people were travelling, as the growing global middle class flexed its spending power. Travellers became increasingly discerning as digital platforms gave consumers a greater ability to choose exactly what they wanted from their hotel experience. Anticipating even more growth, the global hospitality development pipeline hit a record high, with hundreds of thousands of rooms under construction worldwide.1 But what does 2020 hold for the hospitality sector? Against the background of an uncertain global economy, a wave of new capacity coming onstream and – above all – ever more discerning, digitally-empowered consumers to delight, how will hotels compete and maintain or grow their profitability? This article identifies five themes that will shape the industry over the next 12 months, and beyond.