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Two vacation rental technology startups have agreed to combine companies, three years on from their inception in the U.S.... Read More

Sabre Corp. is taking a new approach to how it deals with hotel inventory. Traci Mercer, senior vice president of lodging, ground, and sea, said that for the first time it will integrate multirepre... Read More

Busbud, a Montreal-based booking platform for intercity bus tickets, is keen on expansion following the close of an $11 million Series B funding round.... Read More

The remainder of the decade shows promise for the US hotel industry, with forecasts predicting record occupancy thanks to the strong economic growth and increased demand the sector is currently experiencing.... Read More

Sponsored by trivago. Last year we saw the direct booking journey make the move to metasearch. For travelers, it meant a more seamless booking experience. But what did it mean for hotels? For th... Read More

Hotel and hospitality technology was the focus of the latest tnooz hackathon. The event kicked off the HEDNA conference in Austin, TX, and featured the APIs from hotel tech provider SnapShot. This inc... Read More

Frank Reeves, co-founder and CEO from Avvio, one of the many super-smart travel tech businesses set up in Ireland, sat down with tnooz to explain how the machine learning capabilities of AI can help h... Read More

American Express has acquired chat-based travel assistant Mezi with terms of the deal undisclosed. Mezi will join the global consumer services division of Amex with the aim of helping card members... Read More

Google spin-off Waymo is ordering "thousands" of new, self-driving vehicles as part of its program to test driver-less technology.... Read More

American Express has acquired artificial intelligence-powered assistant Mezi, which co-founder and CEO Swapnil Shinde says upends the current “DIY” trend of travel search and booking into a “do-it-for-me” model. ... Read More

The glitchy events that have cropped up at Southwest Airlines since its migration to the Amadeus Altéa system have all been addressed as they arise, a carrier spokeswoman said. There have been “a h... Read More

The Canadian government is designing a project between its country and the Netherlands to test a new model for airport screening and security that uses biometrics, cryptography and distributed ledger technologies.  ... Read More

In-flight Wi-Fi is more prevalent than it’s ever been, with 82 airlines now offering the service, up 17% over last year.... Read More

Mobile may be gaining ground for travel research and bookings, but the desktop still dominates.  ... Read More

Airbnb is boosting its resources behind the company’s Experiences platform to the tune of $5 million.... Read More