→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Here are the latest travel industry news stories: Indian Railways’ Green Future. Siemens Mobility just scored a major win with Indian Railways, landing the single largest locomotive order in the history of Siemens Mobility. That’s right, 1,200 state-of-the-art, 9,000 horsepower are headed […]
Author: Ana Metz
Your Crystal Ball for the Travel Industry
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Here are the top news stories from around the travel industry—let’s jump right in: Dine like a local, anywhere in the world. Madrid-based startup Velada, founded in 2021, has raised €1 million for its next-gen restaurant guide and booking […]
Travel Tech 2022: A Look Back at the Highlights
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Today we will focus on reviewing the past year – let’s go: A new unicorn: In 2022 we saw a new unicorn taking the stage. Barcelona-based global travel management platform Travelperk became a Unicorn thanks to its Serie-D funding round of […]
The next must-have in hospitality
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Let’s dive right into our insights for the week: Short-haul European flights are being phased out. First, France announced that it would ban short-haul domestic flights. And now Belgium is following: In an effort to reduce noise and air […]
What’s shaping the world of travel for GenZ?
Have you ever considered that everything we know about the world around us is down to the people around us? Whether they are working, studying, creating, thinking, traveling, or anything in between, choices shape our society. Simply by existing in this world, we are constantly making decisions that influence us and people around us. Isn’t […]
Luxury days are here to stay
Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Let’s jump straight to this week’s selection of top travel news: Luxury days are here to stay. After bringing its number of users to more than double this year, ResortPass now raised $26 million in funding to expand to more global destinations […]
How travel should be: safe, fast and flexible
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Let’s head to this week’s curation of the top travel news about innovation, trends, and startups: Nature all around you? Launched in 2021, Raus provides users with a platform for nature-based stays. The German startup announced a new category focused on families, […]
Sangria, tapas and… a laptop 💻☀
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Here is your weekly curation of the top news about innovation, trends and startups in the travel industry. Ready? A new European destination for digital nomads. Sangria, tapas and… a laptop. Spain has become the latest country to offer a digital nomad […]
What’s new in travel: Funding, Acquisitions & Partnerships
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Shall we jump straight to this week’s curation of the top news about innovation, trends and startups in the travel industry? Here we go: Travel app Hopper flying high with fresh $96 million raise. It seems the travel bug is […]
You missed the FutureTravel Summit? Here’s a recap
That’s it. Our first in-person FutureTravel Summit has wrapped up. And what an amazing event it was. We enjoyed inspiring keynotes, great conversations at the panels, and an exciting pitch competition featuring startups from across the world. Bringing different voices and perspectives from across the travel industry, the networking sessions were full of energy and […]
Asia’s big bounce back ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Here is your weekly curation of the top innovation, trends and startups shaping the travel industry: Asia’s big bounce back. Tourism revenue dropped right around the world in 2020 (we needn’t explain why) but Asia-Pacific was hit the hardest, feeling […]
Meet the city that has robots as guides
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. We are ready to head straight to our weekly curation of the top news on travel innovation, trends and startups. Here we go: Budapest tourism to be fueled by AI. AI is increasingly shaping the travel and tourism space, and […]
Talent crisis and flights canceled. Chaos in travel?
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. This week we jump directly to our weekly curation of the top news on travel innovation, trends and startups. Here we go: Sit back and *don’t* enjoy the flight. Call it the surprise of the century, but after getting everyone’s […]
Robots at the Airport
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Here is our weekly curation of the top news on travel innovation, trends and startups: Robots at the airport. Aeroporto di Roma has adopted a new fully autonomous delivery robot. This means air passengers can scan a QR code to purchase […]
Smart Destinations, Creators and Hotel-verse
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Here is our weekly curation of the top news on travel innovation, trends and startups: No funding, no problem. UK-based Pluto has had a pretty out-of-this-world story. After two big crowdfunding campaigns, raising over £1.3 million and a strong community following along […]
A Fresh Look for Airline Shopping
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Here is our weekly curation of the top news on travel innovation, trends and startups: Taxis taking the skies. United has just made another investment into a possible future mode of mobility – airborne taxis. The American firm just put $15 […]