The annual partner conference is Expedia’s showcase for its direction and near-term ambitions, as well as a place for executives to demo new products to the company’s partner ecosystem. The product team underwent a shift recently, as Expedia’s Chief Product Officer John Kim moved over to lead HomeAway. Arthur…
Pace,a startup which helps hotels boost occupancy and maximise revenue, has received seed funding of £2.5 million. The round was led by IndiGO parent InterGlobe with Seedcamp, Speedinvest and Amadeus Capital Partners also investing. London-based Pace, which was founded last year, claims to be the first to fully automate…
OTA Insight, which provides business intelligence to the hospitality industry for revenue optimization, has announced a $20 million funding round. The funding for the London-based company was led by Eight Roads Ventures and F-Prime Capital Partners. According to Gino Engel, co-founder and CCO at OTA Insight, the capital infusion…
This is an article from China Travel News.This article appears as part of the tnooz sponsored content initiative. ChinaTravelNews has learned that the Priceline Group plans to integrate two of its subsidiary brands – Rentalcars and Booking.com – to set up “the world’s largest digital platform for experiences”. Beginning…
Sponsored by Trivago. A hotel’s reputation now lives online. Accompanying the rise of metasearch and the digitization of the booking journey is the growing power of review sites, rating scales and social media platforms where hotel guests rant or rave about their experiences. We’re now living in a world…
This is a viewpoint from Maria Harrison, president of Bullseye Strategy. The technology of the travel consumer journey (part two of three) In Episode I of this series, we saw how the consumer journey in the luxury travel industry mirrors the hero’s journey of Luke Skywalker in the original…
TUI and ebookers have each found unique ways to use sensory perception and biometric technology to help travelers plan their ideal holidays. Ebookers has unveiled a new online tool called SenseSational, which uses facial recognition to gauge users reaction to multi-sensory stimuli which can help reveal destinations that travelers…
One of the many interesting deals which took place this year was Expedia Inc’s purchase of SilverRail, if only because it brought rail tech out of the shadows and into the OTA mainstream. SilverRail is, give or take, a B2B business which Expedia is likely looking at using as…
Mafengwo, a Chinese social travel platform has announced Series D funding of $133 million. General Atlantic is named as a new investor in the round alongside Ocean Link, Temasek, Yuantai Investment and Hopu. Existing investors also participated in this latest financing round. The company plans to use the funds…
This is a viewpoint from Andre Azer, vice president of marketing for Student Universe . At this stage in the year, we take time to reflect on where the industry has been in 2017 and where it’s going in 2018. The travel industry is a particularly exciting one to…