Innovation is reshaping the Covid-19 crisis as the Covid-19 crisis is reshaping innovation. The usual resistance to innovation efforts is gone. We need it. We need it fast. Typical reactions to an economic crisis are: efforts to preserve cash, reduce costs, and search for new revenue sources. We commonly see layoffs, hiring freezes, and cuts in any expenses seen as non-crucial such as travel, conferences, and training. Traditionally, particularly in travel companies, the innovation department falls into the non-crucial category.

A Las Vegas journalist covering G2E (the world’s largest gaming trade show) recently contacted me with questions about innovation, disruption, and gaming. As a former gaming executive, I take innovation in gaming...

The hotel and travel industry should look to provide unique experiential offerings to customers in their attempt to respond to technological disruptions threatening the sector.

With homesharing apps now a firm fixture on the smartphones of many travelers, big name hotel brands are increasingly looking to build their own presence in the home rental market – and are doing it in their own way.

The recently published phocuswright analysis provides InnoVel's up-to-date look into the state-of-affairs in revenue management. The new technologies are outsmarting existing RM algorithms and hotels...

Travel Tech Israel 2017, which took place last week at the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv, hosted over 20 Israeli travel start-ups and numerous international companies, including Airbnb, Hilton Worldwide, NH Hotel Group, Caesars, Highgate Hotels, Skyscanner, Meliá Hotels International, Accor Hotels, and Booking.com.

Most of us have sat through hundreds — if not thousands — of startup pitches, attended hackathons, offered mentorships at various conferences. But Travel Tech Israel 2018 was different. While it surely had some of the aforementioned elements...