Big Data

Ctrip is acquiring Skyscanner for numerous reasons but a big plus is its razor-sharp focus on data. Senay Boztas reports from EyeforTravel’s Amsterdam Summit...

Ride-sharing company Uber acquires a new startup. This time Uber is venturing into the world of artificial intelligence by creating Uber AI Labs, a new...

How hotels use data to drive new revenue In 2017, it's clear that the hospitality industry needs to prepare for even more disruptions that will...

Some companies continue to chase millennials. Instead, using data to drive marketing could have much more effective results while reducing costs. It is amazing how...

Jeff Smisek once liked to describe United Airlines as a "technology company with wings." What the former CEO didn't say was that United was...

This month in Talking Data, Travel Data Daily spoke with Jonathon Wardman, Vice President CRM at Hilton about hotel guest data, how Hilton is leveraging...

Exclusive Interview: Over recent years, Asian hoteliers have witnessed a huge influx of data delivered by online reviews, social media and the ever-increasing number...

How can airlines, hotels, and travel companies leverage dark data capabilities? Every organization collects, stores and retains portions of dark data. It's the digital equivalent...

Big Data in loyalty programs is being used to learn detailed profile metrics on our customers and use predictive semantics to identify triggers of...

As airlines and MRO providers embrace data analytics to help drive efficiencies, their organizations must first ensure they have basic protocols in place to...

TravelDataDaily caught up with the Chief Marketing Officer at HotelQuickly, Christian Mischler to talk about being a data-driven technology company, and how their business is...

In today’s mobile-first world, people turn to their phones regularly to help make travel decisions. In a new report, Google shares insight into the...

Cathay Pacific Marco Polo loyalty program changes in 2015 could have cost the company over $1B in lost revenue Big data can now predict when...

Step by step guide on segmenting frequent flyer member databases. Want to dive deeper than traditional segmenting? Check out my other article on Propensity Modeling...

How does a business set a realistic return on investment (ROI) expectation for analytics? This question often comes up from customers I talk to...

Loyalty game mechanics can be a massive revenue driver for both airlines, and their frequent flyer programs. Getting to the advanced state of leveraging from...

NB: Originally published on UXPAMagazine.org, Sep 2017 edition and available on jpang.io. Layout adapted for UX purposes. Great UX is data-driven. The data itself is usually...

Aircraft fuel is without a doubt the biggest cost for any airline and often receives widespread attention, especially when airlines hedge their bets the...

Today, the marketing industry is permanently connected to technological innovation. The many new resources and techniques continuously entering the marketplace mean that advertisers have...

Airline loyalty breakage is growing discussion point for many frequent flyer programs Len Llaguno - Founder and CEO of SnapShotML, firm providing a financial measurement...

For years, the airline loyalty industry has been debating over what the definition of a high-value customer is. One that spends big on airline...

Are miles a liability for frequent flyer programs? At the end of 2015, members of the American Airlines AAdvantage program had over 853 BILLION frequent...

Do you understand your customers? How do airlines identify customer needs? How can loyalty programs use that data to improve customer loyalty? Understanding your customers is more...

How airline loyalty programs use big data to drive new revenue The past few years have seen a wave of travel companies member accounts compromised...

Hacking American Express? Wait, what? Banks and card providers like American Express are increasingly becoming more reliant on predictive analytics, merchant and transactional data to...