As we all know, travellers have a vast range of options when it comes to what to buy and who to buy it with. Consumer-facing online brands devote a lot of time and effort building up the inventory available and in getting travellers to their site. Once on the…

This is a viewpoint by Volkan Cagsal, CEO of Adphorus. Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past few years, you will have witnessed the rapid growth of social media impacting all aspects of how marketers reach and interact with their audiences. In fact, more than 3…

Hopper has raised CA$130m ($100 million) in a Series D round with the cash earmarked to expand its presence globally, further AI enhancements and recruitment. The funding brings the total raised so far by the mobile-only business to CA$235 million ($184 million). Frederic Lalonde, CEO and co-founder of Hopper,…

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has extended its augmented reality (AR) hand baggage size check feature, recently introduced to its iOS App, to all passengers through the KLM Messenger platform. And eDreams ODIGEO has also announced plans to integrate a similar function into its iOS app. The KLM AR hand…

The vast majority of business travellers always book trips within their organisation’s travel policy, but US employees are the most likely to break these rules, according to a new study. A global survey of 5,200 business travellers by Expedia’s travel management brand Egencia found that 82% of corporate travellers…

Tech-enabled vacation rentals platform Vacasa has bought Oasis Collections for an undisclosed sum, gaining access to new international markets and bringing its total inventory to some 10,600 properties. The move comes just under twelve months since Vacasa picked up more than $100 million in a Series B round. At…

Low cost airline WizzAir has introduced SITA WorldTracer to help speed up the process of reuniting passengers with mishandled luggage. The airline, based in Hungary, served 29.6 million passengers during its 2018 financial year, up 24.7% from the previous year. SITA’s WorldTracer is a global reporting and matching service…

 Sponsored by EyeForTravel In the past year alone, the data team at Trainline has grown from ten to around 50 people. Fergus Weldon, Trainline’s director of data science, and EyeforTravel Amsterdam keynoter, explains: “All of that data investment goes into building innovations to make journeys simpler, smarter and smoother…

This is a roundup of announcements related to people moves and business expansions in travel in October 2018 Monday 1 October Netflights new boss Andrew Shelton, who left his role as managing director for Cheapflights after its sale to Booking Holdings (Priceline Group as was), has taken on the…

  Around seven million Chinese are expected to travel abroad during the Golden Week, Meituan was listed in Hong Kong and Alibaba’s develops AI-driven service robots for hotels. All this and more… Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day travel During the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday (September 22-24), Chinese tourists made nearly…