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Hotelbeds has published its second Corporate Responsibility report, highlighting all the ways it adapted its CSR approach in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to provide support to the global travel industry and to communities most impacted by the unprecedented situation.
Prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (… read more
Hotelbeds, the world’s leading B2B bedbank, has announced the extension of its partnership with HotelRunner, a sales channel management platform and B2B network for OTAs and hoteliers.
Further building on over six years of successful partnership, HotelRunner’s 40,000 hotel and hostel partners from all over the world will continue to… read more
Kenya has joined Tanzania and Uganda in taxing digital transactions to support its depleted public coffers in an economy weighed down by slowing private sector activities, shrinking revenue collections, growing public debt and increasing expenditure pressures.
The new tax has added more financial pain to househol… read more
Travel agencies in the country (Nigeria) have been advised to leverage more on fresh opportunities of the COVID-19 era to survive the business downturn.
Group Managing Director of Finchglow Group, Bankole Bernard, at a virtual trade partners’ forum in Lagos, highlighted some trends that people in the travel market should expect. He also id… read more
Peakwork and Sabre have now set up direct booking connectivity so Peakwork systems and customers have direct access to flight content from the Sabre GDS. Next to flight search the two partners now even operate bookings seamlessly.
Via the new integration, first Peakwork tour operator clien… read more
ATPCO announced it has purchased SITA’s fare management system, Airfare Insight (AFI). The deal enables product consolidation with the integration of AFI into Architect, ATPCO’s new pricing tool. Both companies have committed to supporting airlines during the migration period, which will see SITA customers adopting Architect.
The de… read more
Peakwork has just implemented a direct connection to the British Airways NDC API. This will allow Peakwork customers to access all of BA’s NDC content to book and package directly via Peakwork technology.
Peakwork has created a leisure travel marketplace that brings together the global supply and demand of travel products, op… read more
HelloGbye, an industry-leading creator of patented AI-Assist technology that makes travel planning more efficient, and Sabre Corporation, the leading software and technology company that powers the global travel industry, announced a new agreement to accelerate intelligent automation for corporate travel management co… read more
Sabre has reached a distribution agreement with Lufthansa Group to provide content both through the traditional global distribution system model as well as new commercial models using the New Distribution Capability, according to the companies.
The agreement follows a long negotiation process that extended beyond the p… read more
The Department of Tourism is set to introduce a programme that will stimulate and encourage innovation in the travel sector. The department, in collaboration with the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA), will implement the Tourism Technology Grassroots Innovation Incubation Programme (TTGIIP).
The programme aims to stim… read more
Hotelbeds reaffirms commitment to overcoming environmental and social challenges with launch of 2020
Kenya joins Tanzania and Uganda in taxing digital transactions
Travel agencies to explore dynamics of ‘new normal’
Peakwork strengthens connectivity to Sabre
ATPCO buys SITA’s airfare insight
Peakwork launches direct connection to British Airways NDC API
Dept Invests in Innovation in Tourism Sector
