Travel Innovation Quotes

We set out to reinvent the whole business class experience. We went back to re-engineer everything we had thought about and made sleep a priority.

The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly, 15 or 20 miles an hour….

The growth of purposeful travel is a good thing. It can have a positive impact. We should continue to experiment and move along this line.

I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere.

Friction still exists in travel, and we are on a quest to go even further to make the entire experience - from planning to staying and beyond - even easier with technology.

One of the curiosities that we daily see pass under our windows is the steamboat—a passage vessel with accommodation with near a hundred persons. It is moved by a steam-engine turning a wheel on either side of it, which acts like the main wheel of a mill, and propels the vessel against the wind and tide at a rate of four miles an hour.

From our earliest days, Booking.com has been deploying technology to help strip the friction out of travel.

I wanted to be my own boss. I was fascinated by airlines and how I could change travel for the average person. Then I wanted to diversify.

When I learned about Airbnb, I was like, 'Wow, this is an amazing, new way to travel; it's about community, and there's a lot to figure out to clear the way,' so I was really drawn to that.

From the way that we build cars or going after space travel, I get excited about the transportation space because it's the second-highest household expense after housing.

Historically, we've just been doing accommodation. And, going forward, we're really exploring the full boundaries of everything that someone needs while on a trip, and also how can we reinvent that experience.