→ 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, […]
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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 […]
Space Travel, Predictions and Profits
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. This week we head directly to our curation of the top news on travel innovation, trends and startups: The travel space race is firmly on. We all know about billionaire plans from Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Richard Branson to […]
Travel Luxury, Subscriptions & Innovation
In case you missed the amazing group of people we got together to join the jury of this year’s FutureTravel Pitch Competition, here they are! We’ll be joined by: Christoph Schuh, Michele Luperini, Meryem Aydin and Isabelle Gallo. They are expert investors with extensive experience and expertise in the travel & hospitality sector – let’s say […]
Travel loves fintech 💛
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Being at this year’s EU-Startups Summit gave me a rush of motivation and excitement for hosting our very first in-person FutureTravel Summit. Here is a friendly reminder to our community: ticket prices increase in a week, so make sure to […]
One trick ponies – just 15% of global short term rentals use more than one OTA channel
Check out this Venn diagram from Transparent, which dramatically illustrates how one dimensional the distribution strategies are of most short term rental property managers – just 15% are using a multi-channel strategy – and of course the market dominance of Airbnb. Transparent explains: “In addition to booking power, Airbnb controls the lion’s share of inventory and […]
Fee for all coming to an end with Airbnb’s host commission switch?
Pricing is set to get a shakeup in Australia’s short term rental (STR) industry from November 1 when Airbnb scraps guest service charges and moves to a 15 per cent host commission only model – up from 3 per cent – for its software-connected hosts and property managers. It is a huge change for an […]
Should we worry about fake boarding passes? 😨
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. I’d like to appreciate the positive response to our first premium report – thank you! It’s been amazing to see how interested you are on startups in the travel industry. Now we are now planning new way to keep you up-to-date with the most […]
Getting ready for the Future of Travel ✈
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Here is your weekly roundup: Remember the days before the pandemic when social media made us feel like everyone else was traveling but us? We were witnessing a big boom of digital creators focused on travel, that’s what was going on. For now, many of […]
🔥 Booming of Air Taxis + Funds for Travel
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. In case you missed it: last week we launched an exclusive report for our readers featuring a curation of the top 30 travel events around the globe. This free report has been published in partnership with TravelPerk (yay!) who makes business travel easier with a simple […]