TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Public travel systems provider Amadeus opened for business way back in 1987 when four airlines wanted to offer a centralized booking system. Today, the company facilitates booking and inventory management for 216 airlines, as well as hotels, trains, airports, online travel companies and even corporations. Why tech debt accumulates.

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VironIT

MAY 30, 2019

Technology plays an important role in travel industry organizations. It is important for travel companies, hotels and organizations to stay up with the latest developing innovation patterns. It expands the effectiveness of business tasks and improves clients experience.

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CIO

AUGUST 8, 2022

With a travel resurgence already well under way, it’s essential for industry organizations to ensure they are offering consumers payment options that are not just convenient, but that also reduce risk and instill confidence with every transaction. Travel is back, and the industry needs to make sure they’re keeping pace.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

By April 2020, with travel bans proliferating, the airline suffered losses of €1 million per hour. At the same time, airport and air traffic control staff are much reduced from pre-pandemic levels, which has put additional pressures on the travel experience that are sometimes outside an airline’s control.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

In yet another example of how competitive the spend management space has become, Brex announced today that it has expanded into travel. In an interview with TechCrunch, co-CEO and co-founder Henrique Dubugras said that users of Brex Empower will now be able to book travel inside the Brex mobile app.

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IDC

AUGUST 3, 2020

Learn how the future of the Hospitality Industry is evolving with technologies like security, AI process automation and robots with IDC's Dorothy Creamer.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

As the companies look for ways to reduce their energy consumption, they’re turning to carbon offset programs as a stopgap measure until the energy grid decarbonizes, they implement technologies to reduce their energy consumption, or both.

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CIO

JANUARY 16, 2023

Kirkland, a founding member of SustainabilityIT.org, an organization to drive global sustainability through technology leadership, says Choice was the first hospitality company to make a strategic commitment to developing a cloud-native and sustainable platform on AWS. I am in the business of hospitality.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

More than 70% of IHG’s hotels — a portfolio that includes InterContinental, Kimpton Hotels, and Holiday Inn — are franchises, making parent company IHG in essence a technology product development company that bolsters the occupancy rates and revenues for the 6,100 hotels owned by franchisees. It’s out there already.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

American Airlines, the world’s largest airline, is turning to data and analytics to minimize disruptions and streamline operations with the aim of giving travelers a smoother experience. Poonam Mohan, vice president of corporate technology, American Airlines. Touchless, seamless, stressless. Luckily, Leibman has had an ace on her side.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

due to higher turnover rate of nurses, hospitals have employed traveling nurses. On average, hospitals would save $3,084,000 per year by eliminating the need for traveling nurses, according to NSI. Working with a technology partner like Avanade can help CIOs accelerate their AI programmes and maximise the chance of success.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

A startup with a new type of spacecraft propulsion system could make the interplanetary travel seen in “Star Trek” a reality. It says its engine would make fast and affordable interplanetary space travel possible, as well as operations in very low Earth orbit. Magdrive has just closed a £1.4 But Magdrive is not alone.

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CIO

JANUARY 25, 2023

As CIO of United Airlines, Jason Birnbaum is laser focused on using technology and data to enable the company’s 86,000 employees to create as seamless a customer travel experience as possible. This is important because every transformation chapter depends on use of the technology.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Our mission is to build the world’s leading digital airline, and digital in its broadest sense, not just technology, but the experiences we deliver for our customers, the new business models we can put in place, the way we govern the organization, the way we deliver change, and everything in between,” says CDO Nikhil Ravishankar.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

HotelOnline , a Kenya-based Yanolja-backed travel technology scale-up that fashions itself as an e-commerce and digital marketing enabler in the hospitality industry, has acquired HotelPlus, a software provider with clients in 22 countries. Muliro has also been appointed as HotelOnline’s chief technology officer.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Travel is back, at least according to experts who say travel bookings for over the Thanksgiving holiday are showing to be even higher than pre-pandemic levels. Anyone who loves travel or is that friend who always plans the best vacations, Fora has a tool for you. Travel agencies are a $100 billion market in the U.S. ,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

is the latest startup to grab some venture capital dollars as the travel industry gets back on its feet amid the global pandemic. million to bring spontaneous travel back to a hard-hit industry and Wanderlog bag $1.5 million for its free travel itinerary platform. million for its free travel itinerary platform.

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CIO

MARCH 7, 2023

While the rise in salaries for technology roles has bode well for IT professionals, it has posed challenges for CIOs in effectively managing their budgets with the increased demand on their IT departments. “In It is 30% higher than pre-COVID levels,” says a senior technology leader from the travel industry, on condition of anonymity.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

The end result is that travelers have far more options today than they used to when choosing where to stay. One San Francisco-based startup has emerged that wants to not only give travelers more options, but make traveling more affordable, and it’s just raised $15 million toward that goal.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2023

The growing compute power necessary to train sophisticated AI models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT might eventually run up against a wall with mainstream chip technologies. Lightmatter , LightOn , Luminous Computing , Intel and NTT are among the companies developing photonic technologies.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

New York-based insurance provider Travelers, with 30,000 employees and 2021 revenues of about $35 billion, is in the business of risk. s unique about the [chief data officer] role is it sits at the cross-section of data, technology, and analytics,â?? s SVP and chief data & analytics officer, has a crowâ??s s a unique role and itâ??s

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CIO

JANUARY 5, 2024

With stints at Procter & Gamble, HPE and DHL, Jaime González-Peralta landed at Radisson Hotel Group four years ago as CIO for EMEA and then became global CIO in April 2020 — a particularly complex moment due to the paralysis that the pandemic inflicted on the world of travel. We have impressive growth plans enabled by technology.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In the meantime, they can add IoT technology that can communicate information in near-real time. The benefits can include improving safety and emergency response time from first responders, minimizing traffic jams, and enhancing travel experiences. Emerging IoT technology could help authorities keep better track of road conditions.

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CIO

JUNE 7, 2023

At the end of the 1960s, Spanish businessman Abel Matutes had an ambitious dream to bring paradise closer to travelers by offering incredible experiences. To do this, he and his team have worked based on a technological roadmap, which has led them to be industry leaders.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

As more people dust off their luggage and passports after stowing them away during the global pandemic, Elude aims to show travelers a new way to take spontaneous trips. The Los Angeles-based startup launched its travel discovery mobile app Thursday, a budget-first search engine that shows people how far their money will take them.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The public transport sector in Kenya is largely traditional and a majority of operators, especially those in road travel, still require their clients to physically book tickets at their offices even when making advance travel plans. Others do not have provisions for seat reservation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Another of ShiftMed’s goals, it says, is to reduce reliance on travel nurses, a sector that had a 45% share of the U.S. During that time, travel nurses were able to command rates like $10,000 per week , which, depending on location, employer and skill level, could be ten times more per week than what staff nurses made. billion by 2026.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

With the pandemic heading into its second year, people all over the world are traveling more for work again. Further evidence that travel is rebounding lies in the number of people staying in hotels, and the money going into startups that serve the industry as well as travelers. billion valuation.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Fulfilling that goal is tough for an organization with over 1,300 facilities, but the VHA has learned that using the right technology can make a big difference to success. The organization is currently piloting private 5G networking, a foundational technology that can improve communications, which hospitals have struggled with for years.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2023

The company’s overall strategy is to “have a customer experience that’s second-to-none — from the moment they first engage with the company to plan their experience, to when they return home at the end of their travels — regardless of what Journey Beyond adventure you are booking.” When they call, their records pop up.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

SME-focused business travel booking platform TravelPerk has topped up the $160 million in equity and debt it raised last in a Series D last April with an additional $115 million — closing out the round at $275 million. TravelPerk said its business is now being valued at $1.3

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Two years before that, Boampong traveled to Kenya and was fascinated by how unbanked Kenyans sent and received money while paying bills with mobile money, a system of payments pioneered by Safaricom’s M-Pesa, which has close to 30 million customers. African tech took center stage in 2021.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

With 40 years of running technology companies under Cavins’ belt and a successful ad agency career under Young’s, the two decided to craft a business around their shared passion of being out in nature. For seven months, the couple traveled across the U.S. For seven months, the couple traveled across the U.S.

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CIO

JANUARY 18, 2024

Each new iteration of technology development creates renewed hope to be a vehicle for good and empower those in need. But it’s not the technology type that enables such work but its application. Through the right intentions and business technology leadership, BEB has placed 3,133 orphans with families since it began in 2010.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Business trip booking platform TravelPerk has bagged another rival — picking up UK-based Click Travel. The UK company handles some £300M in business travel for its client base, which will bolster TravelPerk’s revenues going forward.

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The Hustle

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

While the TSA has used facial recognition tech since 2019, the “tipping point” for air travel biometrics could come in 2024, per The New York Times. United Airlines lets PreCheck travelers use their faces to check bags at select airports. Germany’s Frankfurt Airport lets passengers use their faces for the entire travel process.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Aero Technologies , which describes itself as a “next-generation air travel company” which currently operates on a limited number of routes in the U.S. They tend to be premium travelers who are solving for the experience. ” Luxury air travel startup Aero raises $20M. In the U.S.,

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