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As travelers increasingly prioritize tours, activities and attractions in their travel spending, the wider industry wants to get on board with experiences: highlights from the Phocuswright conference

Tiqets, Klook, GetYourGuide are all now offering some form of booking system to operators. Are more online travel agencies trying to get a piece of the direct booking pie? What does this mean for operators? Arival investigates.

With record inflation, operators and attractions report rising costs across their businesses. Price increases are following, but probably not fast enough

The talking points at Arival Activate in Berlin and IPW in Orlando were all in sync: travel is back and travelers are returning to tours and attractions in droves, but deeper discussions revealed a rebound that’s anything but even and an outlook with an undercurrent of concern

As part of a company rebrand, the Asia-focused OTA says bookings and revenue have surpassed pre-pandemic levels, as it extends roll-out of operator tech platform

Parent company Tripadvisor breaks out Experiences revenue for the first time as Viator revenue hits 96% of 2019 levels in fourth quarter

“Are tours and activities still sexy?” Phocuswright asked. How else could the panelists answer but yes?

Google is officially announcing Things to Do today. Here’s a handy list of reservation systems, channel managers and OTAs integrating with the new initiative

Arival is co-organizing a forum at the Tourism Innovation Global Summit to help tours, activities, attractions and the broader travel industry capture the opportunities in experiences as travel and tourism restarts

Most online travel agencies in tours and attractions are privately held or operate as divisions within other companies and do not disclose specifics. Still, it’s interesting to look at what information is out there.