Letter from Los Angeles: Globalisation and experiences are the new order in a Trump world
There were several elephants in the room during the Phocuswright conference in Los Angeles this week.
Airbnb launching Trips, taking it into Experiences and Places, with Flights and Services to be added in the future; Google Now being rolled out on top of Google flights now available in 27 co [...]
Airbnb launches Trips platform, giving guests more direct access to local insights and experiences
Airbnb has ventured beyond the accommodation space after eight years with the launch of Airbnb Trips – a mobile platform designed to give consumers a new resource for local information, tours and activity bookings and travel itinerary planning. Trips focuses on three key areas, being: Experiences, [...]
The Wrap: Rome2rio adds onsite bookings, announces new partnerships
The weekly news roundup: Rome2rio's new booking model and partnerships, Travelport’s merchandising technology for Fly365.com, AirAsia’s enhanced one-click payment
MARKETING: Rome2rio adds onsite bookings, announces new partnerships
Travel search engine Rome2rio is reaching a key mi [...]
Letter from a traveller: What will it be like in the new America?
Two weeks ago, I was in Amsterdam and you couldn’t find a more liberal country than Netherlands where the coffee bars serve more than caffeine and where the people speak several languages just because they have to, situated as they are in the middle of Europe.
Even then, I sensed a growing unea [...]
TUI takes stake in peakwork, software specialist for the travel industry
TUI Ventures, the capital investment company of TUI Group, has acquired 15.4% stake in technology provider peakwork, the first anchor investor for the Düsseldorf-based company.
peakwork is also planning to attract additional investors.
The parties have agreed not to disclose the investment pr [...]
AccorHotels invests in lifestyle brand 25hours Hotels
AccorHotels is acquiring a 30% stake in 25hours Hotels as part of its ‘strategy to be a global leader in lifestyle hotels’, as well as to support 25hours’ long term growth.
The financial terms of the investment are not disclosed
25hours Hotels, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, currentl [...]
Trends that matter in online travel
At WIT 2016 Conference in Singapore last month, Lorraine Sileo, vice president research of Phocuswright, shared the key trends that mattered in online travel with Yeoh Siew Hoon, founder, WIT.
Q. What are the big global trends that you’ve seen in the past year?
Consolidation, circle of d [...]
Three key pillars of any startup from Air Black Box’s Timothy O’Neil-Dunne
Timothy O’Neil-Dunne is no young chook in travel. His career history includes being part of the founding team at Expedia, head of technology at Worldspan, co-founder of VaultPAD Ventures, and a managing partner at T2Impact. Needless to say, he’s built an impressive CV over the years.
Neverthe [...]
Amadeus cytric Travel and Expense launched with focus on mobile-first Asia
Amadeus has recently launched a new tech solution that aims to simplify corporate travel expenses. Amadeus cytric Travel and Expense is an end-to-end software platform that enables corporate employees to plan, book, submit expenses and have them reimbursed, in a single system. To top it all off, it� [...]
Booking.com launches new platform for travel agents
Booking.com is piloting a portal, Booking.com for Travel Agents, which will enable travel agents to book and manage accommodations via Booking.com.
The new platform is an extension of the company’s existing Affiliate Partner Programme, and leverages technology and infrastructure being developed [...]
