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Lend Me Your iPhone to Test the “Backdrop App” Game Changer

2021-10-18 by Phil Butler

iphone

A new spp called Backdrop shows promise for becoming a popular travel companion. At least, according to TechCrunch. If only I had an iPhone!

Tags: Apple Store, Backdrop, iOS, Nigerian startups, TechCrunch, technology, travel apps, travel companion, travel startups, useful apps

Coming Up December 1st: Hospitality Marketplace #Justpitchit

2020-11-23 by Phil Butler

Funnel TV

December 1st – 4th, forty travel and hospitality companies will meet online at the Hospitality Marketplace: Just Pitch It online event.

Tags: EyeWide Digital Marketing, FunnelTV, Hospitality Marketplace, hotel marketing, hotel tech, hotel technology, Hyperguest, Justpitchit, Linkedinlive, Minas Liapakis, Palladium Hotel Group, technology, technology solutions, Travel Singularity

Euromonitor Says: “Rethink Travel Via Regenerative Tourism and Tech”

2020-11-13 by Argophilia Travel News

euromonitor

Euromonitor research says leaders need to rethink tourism via regenerative tourism and technology.

Tags: Businesswire, COVID lockdown, Euromonitor, health tourism, regenerative tourism, technology, tourism tech, travel tech

Crete’s IQ App Guru Comes Out With “6 Clues” This Time Around

2020-07-13 by Phil Butler

Fanis Kourtikakis with his wife Ligeri back home on Crete island

Crete programmer Fanis Kourtikakis creates another brain-training wonder with “6 Clues” – an app that is hard to put down.

Tags: 6 Clues, app creation, app programmers, apps, Brain Stars Evolution, brain training apps, college entrance exams, COVID-19, Crete people, during lockdown, educational travel, exam training, exams, Fanis Kourtikakis, games, Google, Google Play, IQ testing, IQ training, lockdown, pandemic response, People of Crete, programming, technology

A Sabre Corporation Statement About Merger Agreement with Farelogix

2020-05-04 by Argophilia Travel News

Sabre

Sabre Corporation issued a statement recently from Sabre President and CEO Sean Menke regarding its merger agreement with Farelogix.

Tags: airfares, CMA, Farelogix, mergers, Sabre, Sabre Corporation, technology, technology providers, travel tech

The Hospitality Industry’s COVID-19 Ultimatum: Evolve or Die

2020-04-21 by Phil Butler

Virtual wedding

Tourism and hospitality are facing deconstruct. Here’s an encapsulization of the coming battle for survival in a key global industry.

Tags: Adrian Bejan, Booking.com, Brian Solis, capitalism, consumerism, COVID-19, Digital Darwinism, Drew Hansen, Franziska Altenrath, global tourism, hospitality industry, Hospitality Net, Jan Hein Simons, Jonathan Day, MRP Hotels, OTA, OTA's, Revinate, socialism, technology, TUI, TUTAKA, Willy Legrand

Sabre Corporation All Set to Acquire Innovator Farelogix

2018-11-18 by Argophilia Travel News

Sabre

Sabre Corporation announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Farelogix, a recognized innovator in the travel industry with advanced offer management and NDC order delivery technology used by many of the world’s leading airlines. Sabre expects that upon close, the acquisition will allow the company to accelerate delivery of its end-to-end NDC-enabled retailing, distribution and fulfillment solutions.

Tags: airfares, Farelogix, Sabre, technology, technology provider, tourism tech, travel tech

Shiji and Fliggy partner to pioneer facial recognition hotel check-in

2018-09-04 by Argophilia Travel News

Fliggy

Shiji working with Alibaba’s Fliggy (formerly known as AliTrip), have achieved a hotel industry first by integrating full facial recognition for hotel check-in including credit authorization for 50 hotels in Hainan district of China.

Tags: AI, Alibaba, AliTrip, face recognition, Fliggy, hotel tech, hotels, Shiji, technology

Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the Hotelier: Frank Reeves

2018-06-21 by Argophilia Travel News

Frank Reeves

The most confusing aspect of hotel technology these days is discerning real innovation from PR buzz. The need to market and sell products and services always skews the reality, but by taking technology (any technology) down into its basic form consumers can sift through the buzz to discover the real value. With this kind of consumer focus, we thought this great breakdown from Avvio might help sort some of the confusion. 

Tags: AI, artificial intelligence, Avvio, booking, booking tech, Frank Reeves, hotel tech, technology

How Should Travel Professionals Use Big Data?

2017-05-05 by Argophilia Travel News

HotelsPro

HotelsPro, a technology and reservation solutions provider for travel industry professionals and a brand of the world’s leading travel and accommodation supplier MetGlobal Group of Companies, announced the key points about the accurate and efficient usage of big data which enable travel professionals to touch the customers properly.

Tags: Big Data, bookings services, hotel analytics, hotel bookings, hotel news, HotelsPro, news, reservation solutions, technology

MITT 2017 Hits Expocentre Moscow

2017-03-16 by Argophilia Travel News

MITT 2017

At “Expocentre” this week the 24th International Tourism Exhibition MITT 2017 has been one of the year’s early sensations. Set to be exclusively B2B this time around, the event saw a significant increase in visitors this year.

Tags: events, International Tourism Exhibition MITT 2017, market, MITT, Russia events, Russia tourism, services, technology, tour operators, tourist industry, travel agency, trends

State of Hotel Tech: Shop Before Buying

2017-01-28 by Phil Butler

Virtual reality shopping

The day may come when a hotel guest expects and gets a real Orwellian experience out of their stay. At least this is a dreamscape that could take place if unbridled tech geeks are put in charge.

Tags: analytics, AR, CheckRobot Inc., data, digital tools, hospitality, hotel tech, hotels, IoT, Plateno Group, technology, VR

33rd IASP World Conference Comes to Moscow

2016-04-29 by Phil Butler

IASP World Conference

Coming to Moscow 19-21 September, Skolkovo Innovation Center in partnership with MSU Science Park and Technopark Strogino and the Moscow City Government will host the 33rd IASP Annual World Conference on Science Parks and Areas of Innovation (IASP).

Tags: IASP, Renat Batyrov, Skolkovo, tech events, tech parks, technology, Technopark Strogino

Resonate 2016 Hits Belgrade April 12

2016-04-08 by Rhett Butler

Resonate 2016

Coming up from April 12-16 Belgrade’s Resonate Festival 2016 brings its fifth installment of avant-garde electonic music and events to Serbia’s capital.

Tags: Ali Guney, Dadub, music festivals, Omar Souleyman, Resonate 2016, Resonate Belgrade, tech culture, techno, technology, We Are Europe

Travel Technology Europe 2015 coming to London

2014-11-04 by Delia Gavrilescu

Travel Technology Europe

Travel Technology Europe (TTE) will host its 12th annual event coming February 25th and 26th to the Olympia Exhibition Center in London.

Tags: London conferences, technology, travel tech, TTE, UK

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