Wego.com has picked up more funding from another Middle East venture firm as it looks to expand its metasearch model across the region. Its latest round brings Middle East Venture Partners on board. MEVP looks at early and growth stages of innovative companies and has $120 million of assets…
Forward thinking travel brands understand the importance of IT and business working together to solve the bad bot problem. When aggressive scrapers caused slowdowns on iCruise.com, Antoine Zammit, VP of technology at WMPH Vacations, said enough was enough. Hear more about how he stopped the scrapers and the resulting…
Kalagato has come up with a new set of metrics which give a fresh perspective on India’s online travel market. The data analytics firm has made public some of the findings from its paid-for research, and there are two distinct points of interest – transaction frequencies and the importance…
Timing is everything. Perhaps it’s no coincidence that the 10th anniversary of the iPhone and the 10th anniversary of the introduction of inflight connectivity, more commonly known as inflight wifi, somewhat overlap. Technically, the first powerful inflight wifi option, Connexion by Boeing, which was officially launched in April of…
Two technologies – NDC and artificial intelligence — will play significant roles in shaping the direction of travel distribution next year, according to the Advito 2018 Industry Forecast. It has long been thought that airlines had widely disparate motives for adopting NDC, the IATA-backed initiative to establish XML as…
This is a viewpoint from Karen Kent, chief marketing officer at Flight Centre USA Leisure Brands. Recently, while exploring the landscape and patterns of group travel, Liberty Travel cited what most would deem an unlikely trend, the post-divorce getaway. Called the “Start-Anew-Moon,” at first glance people might chuckle or…
As the opening CEO Talk at TravelDaily’s annual gathering in Shanghai, China, Priceline Group’s CEO set the tone for an event focused on the current state – and future growth – of this country’s travel industry. Fogel highlighted some of the themes that would resonate throughout the conference, especially those…
European tour operating veteran Thomas Cook Group has formed a strategic alliance with Expedia Inc and will use the online giant’s platform to power its city break and hotel-only business across its European points of sale. In Thomas Cook-speak, the tie-up relates to its “complementary” city and domestic holiday…
Routehappy has expanded its C-Suite with the addition of a chief marketing officer and hired ecommerce specialist Olivia Mark for the role. This is her first role in travel, though she is an avid traveller, including an extended round-the-world trip in 2008 and 2009. She has a BA in…
This video interview appears as part of the tnooz sponsored content initiative. “Travel sellers and suppliers can improve not only the traveller experience but also employee satisfaction by automating their B2B payment processes”, according to Anthony Hynes, managing director of eNett International. In an interview with tnooz, Hynes explains…