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Hilton’s new in-app guide offers tips from hotel employees

By Mitra Sorrells | September 13, 2018

Hilton is adding location-based recommendations for food, nightlight, shopping and activities to its Hilton Honors mobile app. Read More

News / Startups

Beekeeper picks up $13M to grow hotel employee communication platform

By Mitra Sorrells | September 13, 2018

Beekeper, a platform that provides real-time, two-way communication among all employees in a hotel has raised an additional $13 million as a part of its Series A extension round. Read More

Interview / Startups

Startup Stage: Criton drags and drops app tools into hotels

By Kevin May | September 11, 2018

With 28 full-time employees and expansion to London, Criton is ambitious with its plan to give hotels the tools to create their own mobile applications. Read More

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The ultimate directory for tours and activities

By Douglas Quinby - Arival | September 4, 2018

The list of online travel resellers in tours, activities and attractions is long and constantly changing. At Arival we’ve been hard at work compiling them. Read More

Notated News / Technology

Digital transformation for retailers: a long game

By Achim Schneider - Digital Commerce 360 | September 3, 2018

Both pure-play and omnichannel retailers have had to come to terms with a new playing field, new rules and a very long list of requirements in recent years. Read More

Opinion / Technology

Tech comes of age in tours and activities

By David Juman - Phocuswright | August 27, 2018

There is some irony to the fact that, when it comes to arranging their leisure tours and activities, travelers often have little choice but to reserve and book offline. Read More

News / Startups

Travel startups: What's the ten-year investment, growth and failure picture?

By Kevin May | August 21, 2018

The number of new travel startups has fallen dramatically in the last two years, coinciding with a significant increase in the amount of money flowing in to the market. Read More

News / Technology

ATPCO gets real-time air ticket filing go-ahead

By Kevin May | August 20, 2018

Global aviation fare registration platform ATPCO will use the recent award of a technology patent to redevelop its pricing calculation system. Read More

Notated News / Startups

Why mega-rounds of $100M are now commonplace

By Erin Griffith - New York Times | August 16, 2018

Startups raising $100 million or more from investors — known as a mega-round in Silicon Valley — used to be a rarity. Read More

Notated News / Technology

How an autonomous vehicle startup unicorn took a wrong turn

By Joshua Brustein and Mark Bergen - Bloomberg | August 15, 2018

Quanergy Systems found itself in the center of a sudden frenzy over self-driving cars in 2014. It makes lidar, which bounces lasers off objects to help autonomous cars know what’s nearby. Read More