→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Here is your weekly curation of the top innovation, trends and startups shaping the travel industry: Asia’s big bounce back. Tourism revenue dropped right around the world in 2020 (we needn’t explain why) but Asia-Pacific was hit the hardest, feeling […]
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Talent crisis and flights canceled. Chaos in travel?
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. This week we jump directly to our weekly curation of the top news on travel innovation, trends and startups. Here we go: Sit back and *don’t* enjoy the flight. Call it the surprise of the century, but after getting everyone’s […]
Smart Destinations, Creators and Hotel-verse
→ 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 on travel innovation, trends and startups: No funding, no problem. UK-based Pluto has had a pretty out-of-this-world story. After two big crowdfunding campaigns, raising over £1.3 million and a strong community following along […]
A Fresh Look for Airline Shopping
→ 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 on travel innovation, trends and startups: Taxis taking the skies. United has just made another investment into a possible future mode of mobility – airborne taxis. The American firm just put $15 […]
More Inclusive Cities
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Ready for our weekly curation of the top news on travel innovation, trends and startups? Here we go: Branson bets on diversity, sustainability and customer-centricity. From boats to plans to spaceships, Sir Richard Branson is quite the travel guru. He pioneered taking […]
TravelTech Startups: Latest News Investments
→ 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: Aero’s premium airline secures $50 million. It seems that luxury air travel is picking up pace. Not only have we seen airlines […]
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 […]
The FutureTravel Pitch Competition is Here! 🏆
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. I couldn’t think of any other picture for this week’s edition of the FutureTravel Newsletter. Not exactly travel related, and you might have seen it also in other news sources you follow. But this is just too beautiful not […]
Experiences & Flight subscriptions
Flight subscriptions are taking off. We all want to jet off and get back to exploring all this world has to offer, and it’s getting more financially-friendly to do so. Barcelona-based Caravelo, a startup that’s pioneering flight subscription and revenue optimization models for airlines, has just picked up a €3 million funding boost. The company is flying […]
Attractions, Investment and Talent Hunting
To infinity and beyond? Or to ground? While we hope it’s merely a case of scaremongering, there is growing unease in the space and aviation startup scene right now. Venture capital firms are starting to tell their portfolio companies to save cash ahead of a predicted economic downturn. For startups in space and aviation innovation this […]
Cities are sold out for the Summer
Berlin, NYC and Dublin sold out for the summer. This summer, business travel is booming. Not only are companies enjoying that staff can travel more freely again, but employees are also taking the chance to stay longer and convert business trips into workcations. Recent research by AltoVita shows that some cities are now ‘sold out’ – Dublin, NYC […]
Groups that travel together, stay together 👯
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Let’s dive straight into your weekly roundup of news on innovation, trends and travel startups. Recent data shows that 8 out of the 10 busiest airports in the world in 2021 were located in the US. On the top of the […]
Hotel tech company ReZme launches $800,000 crowd funding capital raise
Hospitality tech startup ReZme has launched an $800,000 capital raise to build out its website design, management and online marketing platform, which the founders claim will help operators increase direct bookings. reZme was founded by Matt Taylor, former GM of Marketing at Choice Hotels Asia-Pacific, and and digital marketer Luke Young late last year. It’s aiming to […]
Stefan Cordiner, Regional Director, HotelTonight
Stefan Cordiner, a Sydney-born serial tech entrepreneur, claims to be revolutionising the way people travel as the Regional Director for the leading hotel booking app HotelTonight. Stefan has a strong background in creating and growing technology ventures, most recently as co-Founder of a global digital concierge app called “Lime&Tonic” which he successfully built out across five countries. He […]
Ryan Tuckerman, Group Director Sales & Marketing, Art Series Hotels
Ryan Tuckerman is the Director of Sales & Marketing for Art Series Hotels in Melbourne (The Olsen, The Blackman & The Cullen). Ryan has also held senior sales roles at Sofitel Melbourne and Stamford Plaza Melbourne including Reservations & Yield Manager and Sales Manager – International. Ryan has a strong background in all market segments, […]