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Will Travelport’s New Tech Help the Company Regain Market Share?

2021-02-24 by Phil Butler

Travelport logo

Travelport rebrands in preparation for a much anticipated new tech rollout. All concerned wonder if the company can truly innovate.

Tags: aggregators, airlines, Apollo, Elliott Management Corporation, Elliott Opportunity II Corp., GDS, GDS companies, Greg Webb, Paul Singer, retail travel Amadeus, Sabre, Sabre holdings, stocks, travel aggregators, travel bookings, travel tech, travel technology, Worldspan

Sabre and Google Develop Industry-First AI Technology for Travel

2020-11-02 by Argophilia Travel News

Sabre Corporation

Sabre Corporation and Google have jointly developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven technology platform.

Tags: Google AI, Google Cloud, Google Cloud AI, Google Technology, Google Travel, Sabre Corporation, Sabre holdings, Sundar Narasimhan, travel technology

Air France-KLM and Amadeus Ink NDC Distribution Deal

2020-09-13 by Argophilia Travel News

Air France - KLM

Air France – KLM and Amadeus have just signed a distribution deal providing travel agents with access to the NDC (New Distribution Capability) services of Air France – KLM.

Tags: Air France – KLM, airlines, Amadeus Travel, COVID-19, European airlines, financial sector, travel technology

Global Travel and Tours Taps Sabre As Exclusive Tech Provider

2020-09-08 by Delia Gavrilescu

Suhaib Kidwai

Bahrain travel agency Global Travel and Tours has signed an exclusive multi-year agreement with Sabre Corporation.

Tags: Bahrain, digital travel, Global Travel and Tours, Sabre, Sabre Corporation, tech solutions, travel tech, travel technology

Tripadvisor’s “Review Hub” Helps Restaurants Manage Online Reviews

2020-02-16 by Argophilia Travel News

TripAdvisor logo

Tripadvisor has announced a new service aimed at helping restaurant owners to more easily and effectively respond to their reviews.

Tags: Facebook, Google, guest reviews, online reviews, Review Hub, TheFork, travel technology, TripAdvisor, Yelp

GuruWalk Snags €1 Million Seed Funding to Serve ‘Free Walking Tours’

2020-01-02 by Phil Butler

GuruWalk

Spanish startup GuruWalk announces obtaining €1 million in seed funding from SeedRocket and other investors to jumpstart free tours.

Tags: city tours, free tours, GuruWalk, startups, tourism, tourism startups, tours, travel startups, travel tech, travel technology

Webjet and Travelport Announce New Long-term Technology Partnership

2019-07-11 by Delia Gavrilescu

Travelport

Travelport has been awarded a new long-term technology contract by Australia and New Zealand’s top online travel agency, Webjet.

Tags: air bookings, booking technology, GDS, IATA, NDC, New Distribution Capability, tech partners, travel technology, Travelport, Webjet

Hotelbeds Confirms European Wholesale Sales Team

2018-11-07 by Delia Gavrilescu

Joaquin Garcia and Luis Miguel Vazquez

Hotelbeds has announced another update on further senior management appointments for the company. According to the news, Joaquin Garcia is now Regional Director of Wholesale Sales for Northern and Centre Europe,  and Luis Miguel Vazquez is the Regional Director for the South and Eastern Europe. Both will report directly to Sam Turner, the Wholesale Sales and Sourcing Director with […]

Tags: Hotelbeds, OTA's, tech, travel companies, travel startups, travel tech, travel technology, Travel Technology Europe

Skyscanner and ForwardKeys Team-Up On Behavioural Analytics

2018-06-20 by Argophilia Travel News

Skyscanner logo

Skyscanner is excited to be partnering with ForwardKeys to deliver two new behavioral analytical techniques within ForwardKeys’ Flight Searches tool, branded ‘Travel Willingness’ and ‘Catchment Area’, which aim to provide insights into macro traveler trends.

Tags: behavioral analytics, Behavioural Analytics, Big Data, data, ForwardKeys, Laurens van den Oever, Skyscanner, tourism tools, travel technology, travel tools, Travel Trends, traveler analytics

Tour companies still slow on travel tech uptake

2014-10-08 by Liliana Steffens

Rezgo

According to two important studies show, tourism businesses lag far behind in the application of new technologies that help e-commerce.

Tags: PhoCusWright, Rezgo, travel technology

Smartphones Trump Tablets in Mobile Booking This Summer

2014-07-30 by Liliana Steffens

travel booking trends

Nucleus, a London-based brand consultancy with focus on travel and hospitality, released a series of mobile web browsing metrics on Tuesday. According to a survey, mobile traffic grew to 43% of all travel website traffic in June 2014. The survey revealed that Apple continues to retain a leading position, with 77.9% OS share and 87.8% […]

Tags: Bookings, Smartphone Bookings, travel technology, Travel Trends

Augustus Collection Unveils Hotel Website Solution

2012-03-29 by Mike Wheatley

Good news is on the horizon for all hoteliers out there struggling to make their mark on the web. The challenges of designing a hotel website and making it visible have been made redundant thanks to those highly-skilled chaps at Augustus Collection.

Tags: Augustus Collection, booking platform, BookingCore, hotel website, online solution, sales-orientated website, travel technology, website solutions

Google Flight Search Moves to Mobile

2012-02-22 by Liliana Steffens

Google Flight Search

Good news for the die hard Google user, the world’s biggest Internet player has just announced Google Flight Search for Android and iOS devices. The company says these mobile variants offer all the functionality and benefits of the desktop platform. According to a post on the official Google blog, since launching Flight Search back in […]

Tags: airline flights, airlines, flight searches, flying, Google blog, Google Flight Search, Google services, Google Travel, travel technology

Eco-Friendly Gadgets to Take With You On Your Travels

2012-02-06 by Guest Author

iPhone greenery.

Seeing the world is undeniably one of the greatest pleasures life brings. It’s an eye-opening, life affirming experience that may well leave you with you your greatest memories ever. Yet a niggling feeling often comes with the territory – you know deep down that despite your best hippie-throwback like intentions, travelling just isn’t that eco-friendly.

Tags: conservation, eco devices, eco fun, eco travel, ecotravel, green, green tech, green travel, travel gadgets, travel tech, travel technology

Geocaching Technology Changing the Way You Tour

2012-01-25 by Guest Author

geocache box

If you ever have even 15 minutes of free time and catch the adventure bug, whip out your smartphone and experience geocaching.

Tags: geocaching, travel technology

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