This is an article from China Travel Daily.It appears as part of the tnooz sponsored content initiative. Amazon, Facebook, Google are already good examples of ecosystems that cannot be ignored by merchants and advertisers. But, the challenge is more pressing for foreign brands, including travel companies, when it comes…
ATPCO, the airline-owned company that collects and distributes fares and related data, acquired Routehappy, a six-year-old company that provides flight scores, cabin amenity data and other merchandising tools. Terms of the deal, which is ATPCO’s first acquisition in its 53 years, were not disclosed. Routehappy, (Startup pitch here) will…
As far as setting the tone for HEDNA’s conference in Austin, TX, Harper Reed offered quite the frame for attendees. Reed is a man of many talents, having moved from founding revolutionary online t-shirt maker Threadless to running Obama’s data-driven fundraising machine as Chief Technology Officer and then to…
In its latest bid to become the go-to flight management mobile tool, Google has added a new feature to Google Flights which can predict flight delays. As Google writes in its announcement of the new feature: “One of the most stressful parts of traveling happens between heading to the…
Routehappy has published its annual review of in-flight wifi showing that 82 airlines around the world now offer internet connectivity in-flight. The rich content for flight shopping platform published its wifi report during the Airline Passenger Experience Association’s TECH meeting in Los Angeles. In 2017 a total of 12…
Sabre Corp. is taking a new approach to how it deals with hotel inventory. Traci Mercer, senior vice president of lodging, ground, and sea, said that for the first time it will integrate multirepresentational hotel content with traditional GDS content. Home to this union will be the new Sabre Content…
Sponsored by trivago. Last year we saw the direct booking journey make the move to metasearch. For travelers, it meant a more seamless booking experience. But what did it mean for hotels? For those hotel companies already competing for traffic and bookings in the metasearch marketplace, it meant greater…
Hotel and hospitality technology was the focus of the latest tnooz hackathon. The event kicked off the HEDNA conference in Austin, TX, and featured the APIs from hotel tech provider SnapShot. This included the first view into Fabric, a SnapShot API that acts as a layer for hotels to…
Frank Reeves, co-founder and CEO from Avvio, one of the many super-smart travel tech businesses set up in Ireland, sat down with tnooz to explain how the machine learning capabilities of AI can help hotels address one of their biggest headwinds – conversion rates. Here’s some edited highlights: Learning…
American Express has acquired chat-based travel assistant Mezi with terms of the deal undisclosed. Mezi will join the global consumer services division of Amex with the aim of helping card members with their travel plans. According to a statement the acquisition follows a 2016 investment made by Amex Ventures in…