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News / Online

Smooth online booking key to attracting repeat airline customers

By Jill Menze | April 7, 2022

Travelers are also keen to buy additional airline services from carriers that provide a positive digital booking experience.... Read More

News / Online

Groups360 attracts $35M, plots group travel platform expansion

By Linda Fox | April 7, 2022

The investment was led by Zigg Capital and included Blackstone Innovations Investments and Fir Tree Partners.... Read More

News / Online

The state of online travel agencies

By Jill Menze | April 7, 2022

A Phocuswright report breaks down the online travel market from 2021 to 2025.... Read More

News / Online

Uber goes full super app, adds planes, trains and hotels

By Jill Menze | April 6, 2022

The move is part of a pilot program in the U.K. designed to capture the end-to-end travel journey.... Read More

News / Online

CitizenM plans metaverse land purchase, virtual hotel

By Linda Fox | April 6, 2022

The hotel company wants to build a hotel in the Sandbox metaverse.... Read More

News / Distribution

Group travel is rising, but pandemic trends remain

By Linda Fox | April 6, 2022

Amadeus has looked at data to reveal increasing rates in forward group bookings as well as trends for 2022.... Read More

News / Startups

Touch Stay books £500K in funding for digital guidebook

By Linda Fox | April 6, 2022

The funding came from a number of investors including SiteMinder founder Mike Ford.... Read More

Interview / Online

In The Big Chair - Vivi Cahyadi Himmel of AltoVita

By Jill Menze | April 6, 2022

Vivi Cahyadi Himmel co-founded AltoVita, a platform that powers the corporate accommodations sector with enterprise software layered with a human-centric approach.... Read More

News / Online

FCM sees strong recovery for Asia business as borders reopen

By WiT | April 6, 2022

Travel management company FCM expects “accelerated recovery” from its key Asia markets in the coming months.... Read More

News / Technology

MyDigitalOffice adds business intelligence data with Focal Revenue acquisition

By Mitra Sorrells | April 5, 2022

This is the second acquisition by MyDigitalOffice in less than a year.... Read More

News / Online

Social, mobile, cashless - Gen Z travel and payment trends

By Linda Fox | April 5, 2022

Gen Z travelers say they are planning to invest in a big trip in 2022.... Read More

News / Technology

SiteMinder consolidates products to create holistic platform for hoteliers

By Mitra Sorrells | April 5, 2022

The company describes its next-generation platform as putting “hotels at the center of their own purpose-built ecosystem.” ... Read More

News / Online

Everyone hates bots, but the travel industry needs them

By Dr. Eduardo Rocha - GlobalDots | April 5, 2022

A security expert’s take on how travel and bots can peacefully coexist. ... Read More

News / Startups

Spain-based PMS Amenitiz nabs $30M for expansion

By Jill Menze | April 5, 2022

Amenitiz offers a complete operating system for independent hoteliers to help them boost direct bookings and reduce their dependence on OTAs.... Read More