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Enhancing customer care through deep machine learning at Travelers

CIO

New York-based insurance provider Travelers, with 30,000 employees and 2021 revenues of about $35 billion, is in the business of risk. On the role of the Chief Data Officer: Due to the nature of our business, Travelers has always used data analytics to assess and price risk. s SVP and chief data & analytics officer, has a crowâ??s

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TravelPerk buys UK-based Click Travel in latest pandemic purchase

TechCrunch

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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For those who want to turn travel into dollars, Fora can help start your next career

TechCrunch

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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Why a 35-year-old travel IT company decided to slash its technical debt

TechCrunch

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.

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Dear Sophie: Can our employee travel on DACA?

TechCrunch

Dear Sophie: Can our employee travel on DACA? Traveling abroad with Advance Parole. To answer your first question, your employee can travel to India to set up your office there only if he gets what’s called an “Advance Parole” document from U.S. She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives.

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VRAI wants to tackle the energy crisis by bringing VR simulation training to offshore wind sector

TechCrunch

Virtual Reality (VR) has struggled to transition too far beyond gaming circles and specific industry use-cases such as medical training , but with the burgeoning metaverse movement championed by tech heavyweights such as Meta , there has been a renewed hope (and hype) around the promise that virtual worlds bring. ” Training day.

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B2B Travel Platform For Corporate Travel Management

Altexsoft

A well-structured B2B travel platform is no longer just a “nice-to-have.” ” It has become an integral tool, ensuring the travelers’ comfort and the operations’ cost-effectiveness and efficiency. Corporate travel management comes with its unique set of needs and challenges. Legacy GDS limitations.

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