TUI Group‘s ongoing digital transformation has created the infrastructure for “destination services” – as in tours, activities and transfers – to become a designated strategic growth area for the business. The news came as part of its 2018 Q1s released today. The importance of its destination services announcement is…

WeTravel, a startup that helps groups, semi-professionals and travel companies organise trips and collect payment, has raised $2 million in seed funding. The round comes from investors including the House Fund, 500 startups, Amino Capital and TubeMogul former CEO Brett Wilson, who joins WeTravel’s board. WeTravel says funds will…

Qubit has published a White Paper revealing top strategies to apply personalization in a meaningful way, presenting a case study of the process followed by Emirates Airlines. With a defined scope for the project, a stated a corporate-wide goal to better understand customers, the airline was able to boost…

Sponsored by Travel Technology Europe. tnooz catches up with Alan Hicks, R&D director for CarTrawler, ahead of his panel session on innovation at Travel Technology Europe. Is innovation an over-used phrase? Innovation has an extremely broad meaning and depending on who or what companies you look at they will have different…

This is a viewpoint from Bill James, chairman of Transform. It is estimated that 90% of the world’s data was generated in the past two years, yet brands still are only using half of it. Everywhere you turn brands are claiming the status of data pioneer, hoping to be heard above the…

Tagible didn’t write a line of code for its content aggregator until halfway through the Travelport accelerator program that the startup completed in 2016. Today, Tagible (startup pitch here) amasses travel content including photos, 360-degree images, reviews and video from across the internet that hotels, destinations, tour operators and activity…

In travel, the theory and practice of digital transformation has now shifted to incorporate the growing importance of mobile, which offers travelers convenience, in a context they are familiar with. Meanwhile, brands are embracing sales, marketing and service opportunities which simply did not exist before smartphones became mainstream. However,…

This is a roundup of announcements related to people moves and business expansions in travel in February 2018. Monday 12 February 2018 Infare expands management team The airfare intelligence specialist has appointed Harald Eisenaecher, former Sabre SVP for EMEA as chief commercial officer. RedDoorz welcomes senior execs The online…

It has been another busy couple of weeks in China’s online travel space with moves from Alibaba-owned Fliggy, Ctrip, Toncheng-eLong and TravelFlan to name just a few. Alongside news from these major players, there has also been investment and acquisition announcements and the latest tourism performance statistics are out….

Fresh off its acquisition by ATPCO, Routehappy wrapped up yet another big deal: a partnership with Amadeus, the world’s largest GDS. Amadeus will integrate Routehappy’s rich airline content into its point-of-sale solutions, such as Selling Platform Connect. In addition, other channels such as online travel agencies can access the…