Barcelona, like many popular travel destinations, faces the challenges of overtourism. The city is proactive, experimenting with different strategies to keep daily life pleasant for residents while still welcoming tourists. An interesting step Barcelona recently took was to remove a bus route that includes a well-known tourist spot from Google Maps. This wasn’t just any […]
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Program to Create Sustainable Businesses
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Here’s your weekly roundup of the latest trends, innovations, and startup news in travel: Thinking about making travel better for the planet? Travel4Impact, launched by Amadeus and IE University, is a fully funded program designed just for small and medium businesses eager to […]
Michelin’s Stars for Hotels? 🔑
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Here’s your weekly roundup of the latest trends, innovations, and startup news in travel: Bringing Michelin stars to hotels. Michelin is expanding its expertise from awarding stars to outstanding restaurants to rating hotels globally with a new “key” system. In France, […]
The New Faces of Family Travel
We are proactive in spotting and pinpointing trends, behaviors, signals, and initiatives that repeat enough to forge a new reality and potentially a new concept. This is how we came across the so-called DINKs (Dual Income, No Kids) and DINKWADs (Dual Income, No Kids, With A Dog). This “new” (?) way of defining a family […]
Hotels are Enhancing Guest Experience
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. let’s head to our weekly curation of the top news, trends, and startup stories in the travel industry: Luxury for new moms and babies. If you want to go deeper on the changing landscape of “family travel”, you can’t miss […]
From KLM’s Green Misstep to Uber’s New Bet 🚗
→ 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, trends, and startup stories in the travel industry: The go-to places for work trips. In 2023, Amsterdam and New York took the crown as the go-to spots for European business travelers, […]
World’s Most-Loved Airports
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. This edition is arriving just in time for your weekly roundup of the travel industry’s top news, trends, and startup stories: The expansion saga. Just weeks after acquiring Portuguese startup Vision-Box, Amadeus is now broadening its horizons with the acquisition of Voxel, an e-invoicing […]
🦄 New Unicorn Alert
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Here is this week’s curation of the main news on innovation, trends, and startups from the travel industry. Let’s go: Snackbotting around the terminal. Munich Airport introduces the world’s first “snackbot” robot, offering drinks and snacks for purchase via cashless […]
Shuffling the Leadership Deck
People often call my attention that there is something a bit off about the travel industry – and once you know it, you can’t unsee it. Despite women being the ones behind more than 70% of travel purchases and making up 55% of the industry, they barely snag more than 8% of those top-tier board […]
Double the Fun: Digital Twins in Hospitality
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Here is this week’s curation of the main news on innovation, trends, and startups from the travel industry: Connecting offline and online. Have you ever wondered what happens when a traveler arrives at their hotel? From a digital perspective, it’s […]
Snow no-show and a Fix for Jet Lag
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Let’s get to our weekly curation of the main news on innovation, trends, and startups from the travel industry. AI in every step of travel plans. Travel discovery and booking platform Layla has bought Roam Around, an AI-powered itinerary creator. This means Layla […]
Report: Meet the Cities Changing the Way We Travel
Explore five cities leading the future of travel. With technology shaping urban landscapes, strategic tourism efforts become crucial. Through our “Meet the City” series, discover destinations leveraging smart tech and imaginative urban planning to redefine how we explore the globe. Get ready to explore handpicked destinations, where culture, history, and innovation converge to shape the […]
Travel’s Tomorrow: What Trends Are Coming?
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Over the past years, we all have seen tech bringing big changes to the industry and shaping how we go places. What we know for sure: things are always changing, especially in a fast-paced industry like ours, […]
Everyday Leadership in Travel: Habits to Keep in 2024
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Success in both life and work starts with good habits. While hard work, talent, and a bit of luck contribute to success, it’s the daily habits that really shape our path – helping us thrive and pushing businesses forward. […]
Holiday Bookshelf: Insights from Travel Leaders
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. We asked travel tech leaders about a book that genuinely influenced them, whether from a personal or business perspective. The result? A fantastic list of books, just in time for the festive season! As we approach this special time […]
Streamlining Reconciliation: 5 Best Practices to Optimize Global Payment Operations in 2024
FREE Report: Streamlining Reconciliation In the fast-paced world of travel, managing finances can be challenging. This report simplifies this complexity by offering practical steps to efficiently handle fund flows across different systems – a common issue for finance teams in the travel industry. You will discover how smart travel companies are simplifying their financial strategies […]