This is a viewpoint from Rajendran Vellapalath, CEO of TPConnects. Air France KLM is the latest airline to introduce the GDS surcharge for travel agents. The airline joins other European carriers with surcharges, as Lufthansa introduced its levy in 2015 and British Airways introduced a surcharge last year. Some would argue…
There was a bit of an interloper at this year’s HEDNA North America conference: vacation rental provider HomeAway. It’s possible that Expedia’s recent acquisition of HomeAway had something to do with this, as it brings the brand into the stable as one of the world’s largest OTA conglomerates. Or perhaps…
Qantas has revealed the latest generation of creative safety videos, following a theme of travel inspiration by featuring everyday Australians on holiday giving safety instructions in beautiful destinations around the globe. Scenes of Australians enjoying adventures from New York to Shanghai, Santiago, Chile to Brighton, England; Tokyo to Cape…
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…