Category: Insights

🌱 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]