This is the first of a series of articles spun out of tnoozLIVE@TTE, recorded live at the TTE event Olympia, London. More clips to come! To learn more about how to bring tnoozLIVE@ to your event, please email Ella Sopp. Travelport presented its Digital Traveler research into the behaviour…
Finish technology startup Wowanders is taking a unique spin at social media travel sharing with an AI powered mobile travel diary app which automatically compiles travel moments based on location and photos taken. Users would simply polish their accrued trip details into a record that includes a rating of…
Redeam, which helps tours and attractions distributors automate the ticket process, has raised $7.7 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Vertical Venture Partners, with participation from Thayer Ventures, JetBlue Technology Ventures, Tallwave Capital and Peninsula Ventures. Other high profile executives that participated in the round…
With last week’s rapid-fire announcements, Airbnb has joined the ranks of ‘companies that freak the industry out,’ such as Google. Just observe reactions to Google’s latest move in travel: Google is coming for us! While this mass hysteria is usually overblown, there’s a similar reaction afoot when it comes…
This is a roundup of announcements related to people moves and business expansions in travel in March 2018. Friday 2 March 2018 Travelaer brings in big chiefs The company, which specialises in customer experience products such as chatbots, has recruited Aditye Kumar as chief technical officer and Brent Arslaner as…
Lugging luggage around an unfamiliar city is one of travel’s less enjoyable moments. Especially with a nighttime flight, bags can quickly dampen the spirit of one last day in a place. And when the day becomes organized around how easy it is to carry the bags around, the bags…
Those whose first introduction to artificial intelligence was the disembodied voice and menacing red cyclops eye of HAL in the Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey, will find Airbus’ CIMON much more amusing. This floating cylinder pal—a semi-sentient volley-ball with the face of a…
This is a viewpoint from David Turnbull, founder and chief commercial officer for SnapShot. Mark Twain’s famous “If I had more time” quotation could be updated and applied to the current generation of hotel revenue managers suffering the pain of collecting and storing data. Nearly 20% of business time…
Glenn Fogel, chief executive of Booking Holdings, formerly Priceline Group, hailed a good year for the company as it posted healthy fourth quarter results for 2017 with gross travel bookings up 19% year-on-year to $18 billion. Gross profit increased 22% year-on-year to $2.8 billion while EBITDA was up 23%…
This is a viewpoint from Matt Walker, chief storyteller at LikeWhere Netflix knows something about you. Something that you don’t know about yourself, or at least you will not admit: You are poor at making decisions. We like to think of ourselves as reasonable beings, weighing the options and…