Tag: Funding

Startup Helps Earn Free Vacations

→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Let’s catch up on this week’s top innovations, trends, and startup highlights: Flight + Hotel packages… plus tours. Lastminute.com has partnered with TUI Musement to offer tours and activities as add-ons to flight-plus-hotel packages in over 100 countries. While this […]

Major Shake-up for Short-term Rentals ⚡︎

→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Let’s go directly to our curation of the top news in innovation, trends, and startups for the week: A hiccup for short term rental. Barcelona plans to ban all short-term rentals for tourists by late 2028 to address the housing […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Michelin’s Stars for Hotels? 🔑

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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 […]

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 […]