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OTA Insight launches the Overview homepage
OTA Insight, a global leader in cloud-based hospitality business intelligence, announced the launch of the Overview, the only solution on the hotel market that consolidates and tracks key commercial metrics, in one singular view. The Overview delivers an actionable snapshot of overall performance, including: distribution heal… read more
Sabre reveal shifts in travel at a panel discussion at Arabian Travel Market Middle East
Sabre Corporation, a leading software and technology provider that powers the global travel industry, conducted a panel discussion at Arabian Travel Market (ATM) in Dubai to discuss a new global travel industry study, ‘Mapping Travel’s New Normal’, which identifies prominent shifts in travel.
The wide-ranging study highlights the di… read more
The Airbnb 2022 summer release: Introducing a new Airbnb for a new world of travel
Last year, Airbnb released 150 upgrades to improve every aspect of the Airbnb service. Today, we are launching the biggest change to Airbnb in a decade including:
Airbnb Categories - A new way to search that makes it easy to discover millions of homes you never knew existed. Split Stays - An innovative feature that provides more opt… read more
Trends shaping 2022 travel recovery revealed in new Skyscanner report
Travel marketplace Skyscanner is publishing a new report exploring the latest trends in global travel. Titled Skyscanner Horizons: Travel’s resilience and trends shaping recovery, the report combines consumer polling with extensive flight search and booking data from each region – the Americas, APAC and EMEA - to provide a comprehensive view of … read more
Amadeus maintains steady progress supported by strengthening performance across its businesses
In Air Distribution, Amadeus processed 91.7 million bookings, reaching 56.4% of Q1 2019 levels, up 5.6 p.p. from prior quarter. In Air IT Solutions, passengers boarded amounted to 264.0 million, equivalent to 60.5% of Q1 2019 levels and improving 3.1 p.p. over prior quarter.
Business evolution in the quarter Air Distribution During … read more
Hotelbeds launches its product portfolio on the B2B booking platform Xeni
Hotelbeds has just announced a partnership to distribute its full hotel and car rental portfolio on Xeni, a B2B service offering a complete white label travel booking and payments platform.
Xeni users – which include small to medium-sized leisure agencies, experience sellers cross-selling travel and organisations seeki… read more
Sabre advances hotel retailing with acquisition of Nuvola
Sabre Corporation, a leading software and technology provider powering the global travel industry, announced its acquisition of Nuvola, a prominent provider of hotel service optimization and guest engagement software to hoteliers worldwide. The transaction includes Nuvola technology and guest enablement software as well as the inte… read more
Google is hiring at its first African product development centre
Last October at a Google for Africa event, the CEO, Sundar Pichai, announced a plan to invest $1bn over the next five years to support Africa’s digital transformation.
"This investment focuses on enabling fast, affordable internet access for more Africans, building helpful products, supporting entrepreneurs and small businesses and hel… read more
MeetingPackage announces a global partnership with Amadeus
MeetingPackage announces its partnership with Amadeus, to provide Amadeus’ hotel customers the ability to automate and digitally transform their Meetings & Events sales processes across direct and indirect channels. The integration will allow hoteliers to use MeetingPackage for their Booking Engine and to manage channel distrib… read more
TravelTech Show announces conference agenda and opens registration
Registration is now open for TravelTech Show, the global meeting place for travel technology leaders, which returns in-person on 29-30 June 2022 alongside The Meetings Show and Business Travel Show Europe at new venue, ExCeL London, following a two year hiatus and a fully virtual offering in 2021.
Visitors to this year… read more
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