→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Here is your weekly curated list of happenings in the hospitality/travel sector: Meet the city that’s leaving cars behind. A capital city recently announced its plans to build 350 km bike lanes by 2025 to promote sustainable transportation. With a […]
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Meet the city that’s leaving cars behind
There is a big project in the works for the future of Tel Aviv: the city is planning on building 350 km of bike lanes until 2025. Israel’s capital is one of the cities that faces the worst traffic car jams in the world and is now actively working to improve its transportation system, including […]
Travel marketplaces you should know
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Are you looking for a quick update on what’s new in the travel industry? We’ve got you covered – check out the most noteworthy trends, startups, and innovations we’ve compiled this week: Travel marketplaces you should know. World-known VC firm a16z has […]
Holograms at the front desk
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. We’ve compiled the week’s most noteworthy news on travel industry trends, innovations, and startups. Here’s what we’ve gathered: Holograms at the front desk. CIC Hospitality is set to launch 30 boutique hotels in Scandinavia, each equipped with a unique feature: hologram […]
Your inside scoop on travel innovation, trends, and startups 🚀
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Ready to catch up on the latest travel industry news? Here are the top stories from this week: Making it easier for hotels to get paid. RoomRaccoon, a hotel management system, has teamed up with Adyen, a global fintech platform, to […]
Meet the city charging a tourist entrance fee
Have you ever imagined paying a €10 ticket to visit a city? It is Venice’s plan to charge a €10 tourist fee for daily visitors as a way to combat the impacts of excessive tourism, becoming a pioneering and controversial initiative by a city that is now debating the future of tourism and travel. The […]
Meet the city that has robots as guides
Have you ever imagined a city having robots as tour guides? The capital of Hungary, the 9th largest city in Europe known for their majestic architecture, Budapest presents interesting news for its visitors: the possibility of having a customized travel itinerary created by artificial intelligence. Well, it’s not a humanoid robot as much as a […]
Your Crystal Ball for the Travel Industry
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Here are the top news stories from around the travel industry—let’s jump right in: Dine like a local, anywhere in the world. Madrid-based startup Velada, founded in 2021, has raised €1 million for its next-gen restaurant guide and booking […]
Luxury days are here to stay
Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Let’s jump straight to this week’s selection of top travel news: Luxury days are here to stay. After bringing its number of users to more than double this year, ResortPass now raised $26 million in funding to expand to more global destinations […]
How travel should be: safe, fast and flexible
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Let’s head to this week’s curation of the top travel news about innovation, trends, and startups: Nature all around you? Launched in 2021, Raus provides users with a platform for nature-based stays. The German startup announced a new category focused on families, […]
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 […]
Short-term Rentals on the Spotlight
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Here is our curation of the top news on travel innovation, trends and startups: Roam free with Celitech’s expanding e-SIM coverage. One hurdle travellers have to overcome is of course the all-important cell coverage. After all, part of travelling is […]
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 […]
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 […]