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…
The glitchy events that have cropped up at Southwest Airlines since its migration to the Amadeus Altéa system have all been addressed as they arise, a carrier spokeswoman said. There have been “a handful of brief events” since the May 2017 transition, the last in November. An Amadeus issue…
Busbud, an online marketplace for intercity bus tickets has secured $11 million in series B funding. The round is led by iNovia Capital with new investors Teralys, Claridge and Plaza Ventures, as well as previous investor Real Ventures, also participating. According to a statement the funds will go towards…
For a number of US cities, the bid to attract Amazon’s new HQ2 has been one of the top development priorities, with each candidate making attractive concessions in hopes of attracting the tech giant to build its facility and deliver jobs. To help Amazon decide, OAG has put together…
This is a viewpoint from David Chapple, event director for Travel Technology Europe. It may sound like fantasy or something from an 1980s movie, but within the next ten years travel industry buyers are very optimistic that not only leisure trips to outer space but also travel at breakneck…
A new report from the recent World Economic Forum aims to break down the barriers to a saner means of vetting airline passengers. People have considered passenger facilitation and ensuring border security to be mutually exclusive, the report says, and trusted-traveler and registered traveler programs can’t by themselves achieve…
Delta and American airlines agreed to a new deal that will enable the airlines to rebook customers onto each other’s flights in the event of unexpected flight disruptions. The new agreement went into effect Jan. 24. American said its priority remains keeping customers on American or its alliance and…
This is a viewpoint from Alexander von Bernstorff, director of airline solutions at InteRES. At the start of 2018, we entered year seven of NDC. As seven is a special number (and seven years quite a long period to run a project), I’d like to share my thoughts around…