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 […]
Tag: Travel Industry
Taxis will be flying around
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Here are some of the most exciting travel innovation stories right now: Airport management revolution. AeroCloud just raised a massive $12.6 million in Series A funding to bring their AI and machine learning airport management platform to new heights. […]
The Most Innovative Destinations
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Let’s dive into the latest news about innovation, trends and startups in the travel industry: Meet the city. Get ready to be inspired as we embark on a journey to explore the most innovative destinations in the travel industry! Our […]
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 […]
The next must-have in hospitality
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Let’s dive right into our insights for the week: Short-haul European flights are being phased out. First, France announced that it would ban short-haul domestic flights. And now Belgium is following: In an effort to reduce noise and air […]
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 […]
What’s new in travel: Funding, Acquisitions & Partnerships
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. Shall we jump straight to this week’s curation of the top news about innovation, trends and startups in the travel industry? Here we go: Travel app Hopper flying high with fresh $96 million raise. It seems the travel bug is […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Workcations, boats and more ⛵
→ Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly curation of the top travel news, straight to your inbox. This week we are jumping straight into our curation of the top news on innovation, trends and startups in the travel industry. Here we go. Train or plane? Joining the exciting trend of rail and fly, German rail company Deutsche Bahn is […]
COVID-19 makes Australian skiing even more expensive in 2020
Thredbo has become the first Australian ski resort to reveal its pricing for season 2020, increasing the cost of a daily lift ticket by 20 per cent to $159 a day. Sounds outrageous at a time of hardship and unemployment for many, however the steep price hike is no doubt down to the fact that […]
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 […]
Booking.com softens rate parity stance in Australia
Booking.com has made major concessions to its controversial rate parity policy in Australia following negotiations with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission but will still not allow hoteliers to offer cheaper rates on their own websites. In an email this week, Booking.com CEO Gillian Tans advised Australian hoteliers that from September 1 the world’s largest […]