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Lyft enters Europe with €175M acquisition of ride-hailing provider FreeNow

By Abby Crotty | April 16, 2025

Founded in 2009 and currently owned by BMW Group and Mercedes-Benz Mobility, FreeNow operates in more than 150 European cities. Read More

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Lighthouse adds marketing tech with acquisition of The Hotels Network

By Linda Fox | April 16, 2025

The Hotels Network is a cloud-based platform that helps hotels attract, engage with and convert guests using real-time user behavior, predictive algorithms and artificial intelligence agents. Read More

Interview / Technology

CEO Spotlight: Fred Bean of HotelPORT

By Abby Crotty | April 16, 2025

Hospitality distribution solutions company HotelPORT provides solutions for hoteliers to ensure accurate representation of property content shown through online travel agencies, tour operators and other... Read More

News / Startups

Latin America-based corporate travel startup Onfly raises $40M

By Morgan Hines | April 15, 2025

Brazil-based Onfly, founded in 2018, aims to streamline and digitize corporate travel and expense management, now working with more than 2,000 companies. Read More

News / Technology

Cloudbeds launches lab to drive innovation

By Morgan Hines | April 15, 2025

The company’s division launches with two new solutions, Signal and Engage, built on Cloudbeds Intelligence. Read More

News / Online

NextTrip acquires luxury OTA Five Star Alliance

By Abby Crotty | April 14, 2025

The latest acquisition is anticipated to help NextTrip expand its reach in the luxury travel sector. Read More

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BizAway acquires Aervio, boosts travel management tech offering

By Linda Fox | April 14, 2025

Aervio said its business travel optimization platform uses natural language processing to fulfill requests and can reduce search, booking and billing time by 90%. Read More

News / Technology

How travel businesses choose the right AI model

By Mark Frary | April 14, 2025

The world of AI is expanding rapidly, creating both solutions and concerns for travel companies. Read More

News / Distribution

Why attribute-based selling is gaining momentum

By Matthew Parsons | April 14, 2025

Hotels are using attribute-based selling more often, allowing guests to pick and choose specific characteristics based on their own preferences. Read More

News / Technology

PhocusWire's weekly travel tech news briefs: SITA, IATA, Fora Travel, Directo and more...

By PhocusWire | April 11, 2025

Keep up with all the latest people, partner and product news from around the global travel industry. Read More

News / Technology

Kayak launches new AI tool for travel search

By Abby Crotty | April 10, 2025

Kayak described the new platform as its tech team's "playground for innovation" and said what works best on Kayak.ai will then become part of Kayak.com for everyone to use. Read More

News / Technology

Sustainability-focused travel management platform Goodwings raises nearly $3M

By Morgan Hines | April 10, 2025

The raise will allow the Denmark-based company to create its Sustainability Suite 3.0, which will include new tools for businesses to limit their carbon footprint. Read More

News / Distribution

Investors discuss the state of IPOs in travel

By Mark Frary | April 10, 2025

Investors discuss the current market and the potential for travel IPOs in the U.S., Asia and Europe in 2025. Read More

News / Distribution

The path to growing alternative revenue for short-term rentals

By Phocuswright Research | April 10, 2025

For companies that serve short-term rentals, it is critical to understand what type of technological and ancillary tools operators are turning to. Read More

News / Technology

MSC, Vision-Box partner to streamline cruise experience with biometrics

By Morgan Hines | April 9, 2025

Amadeus, which acquired Vision-Box in 2024, said the partnership marks a “major step” toward digitizing the cruise journey and could become a model for the industry to implement biometric... Read More

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