→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. It’s time for our weekly roundup of the top travel stories: The pursuit of happiness beyond profit. Attractions have traditionally centered around creating happiness, but their role extends far beyond profitability today. In partnership with IAAPA, we have crafted […]
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Unlocking Happiness via Travel
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. now to our news curation on the top news this week – including our latest report, right in the next line: Unlocking Happiness: Insights for the Attractions Industry. Discover the global evolution of happiness in attractions, the importance of […]
Group Trip Startup Funding and Acquisitions
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Let’s dive into our news curation on the top news this week: Embracing AI for personalized travel. Online travel agency Travelshift has secured $10 million in funding. The funds will support the company’s growth and the development of AI-driven […]
Netflix In-Person Interactive Experiences
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Let’s catch up on the top travel news in innovation, trends, and startups for the week: Shaking up business travel. TravelPerk, the fast-growing travel tech unicorn, just acquired Chicago-based AmTrav, making the U.S. its top revenue region. This move adds […]
Welcoming Avi Meir, CEO of TravelPerk, to FutureTravel Summit 2024
We’re excited to announce that Avi Meir, Co-founder and CEO of Barcelona-based unicorn TravelPerk, will be speaking at the FutureTravel Summit 2024! Since its founding in 2015, TravelPerk has become a leader in the business travel market with its next-gen, all-in-one platform. It gives travelers the freedom they want while providing companies with the oversight […]
Partnership for Better Travel Insurance
→ 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: Tailored digital guides for guests. Barcelona-based Identify Travel has secured €400,000 to enhance its technological solutions for tourism. The company provides digital destination guides and gamified travel […]
🌱 Fresh Funds, Partnerships & Mobility Startups
→ 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: Boosting the things people like to do. Holibob secures new funding to enhance its eCommerce engine for travel experiences. The UK-based company helps destinations and travel brands […]
City Introduces Robotaxis
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Here is your weekly overview of the top news on innovation, trends and startups: The experts in luggage storage. Dealing with guests’ luggage can be a headache for hotels, but it doesn’t have to be this way. LuggageHero, a leading provider […]
Future-Proofing Travel with Design and Tech
To thrive in the travel industry, staying updated with the newest tech is key. As customers expect more and the competition grows, travel executives need to keep up with the latest trends to push their business forward. This is where Intellias steps in, offering specialized Design Thinking Workshops on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning […]
🎉 Celebrating 150 editions of FutureTravel 🎉
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Let’s head to this week’s top news: Travelsoft wide expansion continues. After the acquisition of French travel publication L’echo Touristique a few weeks ago, TravelgateX announced yesterday that it is joining Travelsoft. This strategic move aims to consolidate TravelgateX’s position as a […]
Eleven. Trillion. Dollars.
→ 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: Eleven. Trillion. Dollars. In 2024, the travel industry is set to hit a record high with $11 trillion in earnings, and it’s expected to soar to […]
When fiction changes real-world tourism
What do Eat, Pray, Love, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, and Emily in Paris have in common? These cinematic productions had multimillion-dollar budgets and profits, massive audience success, and legions of fans, indeed. And all of them were created in very specific locations that became more visited, frequented, and began to receive tourism that did […]
The Hidden Route on Google Maps
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 […]
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 […]