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The NYU SPS Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality’s Hospitality Innovation Hub Incubator is collaborating with Phocuswright.

UpStay, the first post-booking yield optimization platform for hotels, has won a major international travel industry award at the Phocuswright Conference held in Florida this month. The Award recognises UpStay as one of the most innovative technology platforms available to the global travel industry today.

Speaking in the PhocusWire Studio during The Phocuswright Conference, Tourism Australia’s Jackie Dunfee explains how the destination has remained top of mind for travelers.

This session at The Phocuswright Conference is an uncomfortable listen for any brand or executive who knows they could and should be doing better around sustainability.

(“Hotel rooms as workspaces? Its happening," Phocus Wire on Apr 3, 2020) In the weeks and months prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, we featured a number of stories detailing hotels’ efforts to leverage largely vacant public space within the hotels as co-working space (e.g. WeWork) and offer otherwise vacant hotels rooms to travelers seeking to book a room for less than the traditional 24-hour period (e.g. DayUse.com). Now with social distancing and quarantines putting a temporary stop to co-wo...

With the COVID-19 pandemic, the emphasis on global trends in travel and technology has turned local – in effect causing a “decoupling” of markets around the world. However, the first “decoupling” with regards to technology trends between Asia and the West happened with the rise of mobile in the East. “Ten years ago, we in Asia were looking to trends happening in Europe and the U.S.,” says WebInTravel founder Yeoh Siew Hoon, moderating a session at The Phocuswright Conference last ...

Johanna Jainchill The latest Covid-19 cruise scare was on the Quantum of the Seas out of Singapore  and like a few before it, it turned out to be nothing but a scare. But nevertheless, it almost became another Covid-cruise PR nightmare. There have been serious Covid-19 outbreaks on cruise ships. The first, and most famous, on the Diamond Princess, before anyone knew what Covid-19 was all about, resulted in passenger deaths. The outbreak on the Hurtigruten ship over the summer was mishandled an...