Brazilian OTA ViajaNet.com is continuing to grow its business profitably, thanks to a number of product launches in 2016. The OTA focuses exclusively on the Brazilian market, and expects to make a profit in 2016 on sales tipped to surpass half a billion reals ($148 million). The business was…
TRVL, an aggregator of travel content with more than a million subscribers on Apple News, hasn’t forgotten about its customers, even though it hasn’t had an update to its app for displaying travel content in more than three years. Today TRVL, a team of a dozen staffers in Amsterdam and…
‘Tis the season to be quirky, it appears, with British Airways another major travel brand coming up with another way of getting attention. The airline has added (a world “first”, no less!) another dimension to its Facebook Messenger bot so that travellers can interact with the platrform using just picutre-based…
Earlier this year, Air Black Box (ABB), the tech company, drew further investment from ANA Holdings (parent of Vanilla Air and ANA) and Cebu Pacific Airlines, joining existing backers that include Scoot (part of Singapore Airlines) and Nok Airlines. We wanted to find out more about this airline passenger IT and…
Panasonic Avionics has reacted strongly to a “highly misleading and inflammatory” report from a cybersecurity team which suggested that an airline’s controls can be accessed by hackers via vulnerabilities in the inflight entertainment and communication (IFEC) systems. IOActive made the bold claim that: The vulnerabilities in these systems could…
Expedia wants to get more of its core audience interested in (and buying) vacation rental trips, so is trying everything it can to raise awareness. Buying HomeAway for $3.8 billion was the big move, obviously, with listings from its new family member now featured on the motheship. But now it’s…
Indian OTA Yatra.com had a quiet start to life on the Nasdaq yesterday, although Dhruv Shringi, co-founder and CEO, did get to ring the closing bell. Shares debuted on Tuesday at $10 and closed at $9.70, having hit a high of $10.15 and a low of $8.40 during the…
Hilton Worldwide was not the first to launch a direct booking campaign, but the hotel giant’s largest ever campaign made a lot of people stop and think. The ‘Stop Clicking Around’ initiative, aimed at loyalty scheme members, offers discounted rates and other benefits for booking through the company’s direct…
Airport transfer web service FlitWays has secured a $1.2 million funding round, in a bid to push the businesses into new markets. A group of private investors have committed to the Series A capital-raise, following on from a $600,000 seed round following its launch. The company was created by Tobi Mac…
Airbnb has dipped its toe back in the waters of third-party distribution, almost a year to the day since it axed its original affiliate programme. The global property-sharing giant has signed a deal this week with two Japanese travel search sites to allow its inventory to feature alongside other accommodation…