Articles tagged “social”

TikTok is moving from trip inspiration into bookings, turning videos for hotels and experiences into bookable inventory inside the app.

The loneliness epidemic has become a concern in the West, and Outsite is positioning itself as a commercial remedy for travelers that's partly fueled by a paid subscription program.

Airbnb has a lot riding on its Experiences business. Adding a social feature is an incremental improvement, not a game changer.

Hostelworld CEO Gary Morrison is ringing in the evolution of the hostel dweller. More solo travelers look for friends with chat tools, and bunking up can bring carbon emissions down.

TikTok has become an influential force in travel discovery. Selling travel more directly would make it formidable.

The messaging app bets it can leap into becoming a platform for discovering places and hotels. Odds are against the company. But odds are in favor of visual-first search becoming widespread.

What a year it has been for Facebook and the travel industry and it's not over yet. For a company with the unparalleled size and reach of Facebook to say that travel is the industry it's putting some of its most significant investment towards in the next year should tell you something about the state of the industry. We can't wait to see what's in store for 2017.

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In a world of fly-by-night apps and social media bubbles, Facebook has matured as one of the more important communications platforms.

Digital brand communications, social media and the rise of digital bookings are impacting the industry at a rising rate year over year, in ways big and small.