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Opinion / Technology

Is 2025 the year of payments transformation?

By David Doctor - Outpayce from Amadeus | February 18, 2025

Predictions from Outpayce CEO David Doctor who believes many travel companies will put payments at the top of their priority list in 2025. Read More

Interview / Startups

STARTUP STAGE: Mendel wants to be the go-to corporate travel platform for Latin America

By Morgan Hines | February 13, 2025

Founded in 2021 and based in Mexico City, the company provides a corporate travel platform that includes online booking, expense management and payments. Read More

Interview / Technology

CEO Spotlight: Sean Fitzpatrick of Lighthouse

By Linda Fox | February 13, 2025

The company raised $370 million in Series C funding in November, and Fitzpatrick sees huge opportunity for the company to grow, particularly in the independent hotel sector. Read More

News / Technology

Exoticca receives €25M to expand presence, build out AI technology

By Morgan Hines | February 11, 2025

The €25 million comes in the form of a venture debt facility from BBVA Spark, following the company’s recently completed €60 million Series D round which was headed up by Quadrille Capital. Read More

News / Technology

Canary Technologies launches "AI Voice" platform to assist hotels

By Morgan Hines | February 5, 2025

The platform has four AI solutions to manage front desk tasks, concierge services, bookings and central reservations. Read More

News / Technology

OpenAI’s “Operator” and its impact on travel search and marketing

By Morgan Hines | February 3, 2025

OpenAI's new Operator agent shows how an autonomous agent could work — and raises questions about travel marketing's future. Read More

News / Technology

Less than a third of vacation rental property managers use AI

By Morgan Hines | January 22, 2025

Lodgify’s new report on the short term rental industry dives into technology, market and guest preferences trends. Read More

News / Technology

Marriott, AmexGBT, MakeMyTrip technologists on the potential for AI in travel

By Morgan Hines | January 17, 2025

Artificial intelligence has enjoyed a steady buzz of attention over the last few years and whether the hype has matched reality has been up for discussion. Read More

News / Online

U.K. regulator to investigate Google’s search dominance

By Morgan Hines | January 14, 2025

The organization will look into how Google’s position is impacting businesses such as advertisers, the media and alternate search engines and also the effect on consumers. Read More

News / Technology

Delta provides glimpse at future with digital assistant

By Morgan Hines | January 8, 2025

Delta Air Lines is rolling out capabilities of its new Delta Concierge, which will provide "contextual insights" for travelers and link with partners including Joby and Uber to enable a multimodal,... Read More

From Our Partners / Technology

AWS on using technology to drive customer-centricity in travel

By PhocusWire | January 8, 2025

AWSprovides cloud computing technology to companies around the world, including many in travel and hospitality such as United Airlines, Air Canada, Trip.com, Booking.com, Choice Hotels and many... Read More

News / Online

Phocuswright analysts share their travel predictions for 2025

By Morgan Hines | January 2, 2025

AI agents, luxury travel, developments in APAC, short-term rentals, digital ID and eVTOLS are some of the topics Phocuswright analysts are watching for 2025. Read More

News / Startups

TripSuite raises $5M to grow AI platform for agencies

By Morgan Hines | December 19, 2024

TripSuite's platform for travel agencies offers tools for customer relationship management, commission tracking, accounting, payments and more. Read More

From Our Partners / Technology

Not just a 2025 trend – genAI is the catalyst for a golden age of travel tech innovation

By Chris Hemmeter, Thayer Investment Partners | December 18, 2024

This wave of genAI acceptance is so disruptive and absolute that it will unlock the cleansing of the tech stack, lead to the retirement of technical debt and give innovators the opportunity to build... Read More

News / Technology

Hostaway raises $365M for AI, product development and expansion

By Linda Fox | December 17, 2024

The property management technology company has landed the funding from General Atlantic and previous investor PSG at a valuation of $925 million. Read More

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