A new report from BusinessTravel iQ suggests that travel buyers are confused about the advantages and disadvantages of the payment solutions on the market. The study, produced with Barclaycard, identified the three most popular payment methods in the corporate travel world as lodge cards, corporate cards and virtual cards….
This is a roundup of product news and announcements related to travel marketing in July 2017. Monday 10 July 2017: IAG looks to Spain for accelerator The BA and Iberia owner is launching its second accelerator programme. This time the programme will be based in Spain, and its working with consulting company,…
Visit Finland has begun a quirky marketing campaign which aims to create music from DNA. The ‘Symphony of Extremes – Born from Finnish DNA’ initiative uses software from Professor Jonathan Middleton of the University of Tampere. The technology is said to create sound from the base pairs in DNA. The…
It has been trendy for travel companies to create startup accelerators – think Marriott, British Airways-parent IAG and Travelport. A seemingly less well-trod route is partnering with an external expert although there are companies, including CWT and easyJet, that have gone down this path. Enter TUI – the tour…
Thomson has added a new concept store to its 600-strong retail estate in the UK which includes the use of in-store VR headsets for the first time. Other UK high street agents have had VR is shops for some time – Tnooz first reported that Thomson’s big UK rival…
Ixigo.com has claimed the number two spot in India’s online travel market and believes that its growth comes from using machine learning techniques to provide products which solve the problems of real Indian travellers. Its CEO Aloke Bajpai told Tnooz that Ixigo is now second only to the combined…
This is a regular roundup of some of the latest mobile application startup launches in travel covering everything from trip inspiration and planning to virtual assistants. 4Suites What is it? The enables hotel guests to manage their stay via smartphone. Services with the mobile app include pre-check in, opening…
I’ve spent the past four-and-a-bit years of my life working on marketing and selling technology solutions for the tours and activities industry. This time is more or less evenly split between my time as a founder and with TrekkSoft. Like many, I was attracted to the industry by the…
The corporate travel sector is attracting a huge amount of attention from the startup community currently. They see a booming sector, generating big money, but great inefficiency in processes, and think there must be a better way. And, the investment community also seems to have the appetite to put…
Expedia Inc’s HomeAway has signed a partnership with ecommerce giant Rakuten as the home rentals sector in Japan bursts into life. HomeAway will start selling inventory from “Rakuten Lifull Stay”, a partnership between Rakuten and housing and real estate information service Lifull which was only announced a few weeks…