TrustYou has unveiled a fresh way for hotels to connect with its guest feedback platform via the hotel technology systems they already use. More than 20 partners worldwide, such as Accor’s Fastbooking, Cloudbeds, and eRevMax, have begun to sync with the company’s TrustYou Connect solution. Here’s the backstory: Most hotels use at least one tech tool to manage…
San Francisco startup TravelBank, which provides a mobile app and website to help manage travel expenses and budgeting, debuted today. It has received a $10 million Series A round of investment from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Accel Partners, and angel investors. CEO Duke Chung created this one-minute pitch video…
As mobile becomes an established transactional channel for most travel companies, either via an app or through the mobile web, fraud in mcommerce needs to be taken seriously. NB This is a viewpoint by Yarden Altshull at Riskified. Conversations around mobile fraud will get louder as the relative share…
Scotland-based Traveltek has picked up £5.3 million in funding from YFM Equity Partners. Traveltek has been around since 2002 and provides dynamic packaging technology and associated back-office functions to agents, tour operators and wholesalers. As well as its core B2B business, it also builds consumer-facing websites. A corporate video…
Be warned, Asia-Pacific: Booking.com has big ambitions for the region and wants to replicate the success it had in Europe. The Priceline Group-owned online travel agency carved out a considerable position in Europe in the face of stiff competition and is already attempting to claw away at Expedia‘s market…
Musement, the Italy-based startup, has been on the march since its €5 million funding round 18 months ago. The startup says it has been finding traction, having begun with a tours-and-activities focus but having since broadened out to offer consumers other in-destination experiences. Today, the self-styled “personal concierge in…
Travel startups should reconsider their obsession with raising money but also smarten up their act when pitching to investors. This was the stern message from a panel of financial backers at the WebInTravel Bootcamp in Singapore this week, as the eagerness by entrepreneurs to enter the travel industry appears…
This is a roundup for product news and announcements for travel DISTRIBUTION in tourism and hospitality for October 2016. Thursday 20 October 2016: ETTSA gets Lastminute.com Group on-board Lastminute.com Group, the umbrella company behind a collection of online travel agencies, will join the European lobbying organisation for travel technology companies. Others…
Kayak will embark on its first significant push in the Asia-Pacific region in 2017, years after missing out on investing in one of China’s hottest web properties. The travel search brand, which has a dominant position in North America, has had a modest presence in the APAC for a number…
What’s your big idea for improving the way travelers search, shop and experience travel? Is it simpliflying how to find information about cheap flights? Delivering a traveler’s dream about an authentic and unique journey? Or presenting it all in a seamless mobile app? THack Berlin, a travel hackathon, on…