Hotel industry information platform Hotel Hangzhou GreenCloud Tech Co., Ltd has garnered approximately 100 million yuan ($14 million) in its Series B+ round of financing from China Merchants Bank and online travel service giant Trip.com Group’s unit Shanghai Kehui Investment, the company announced on its WeChat account on Friday. GreenCloud’s integrated ecosystem offers property management system, Oracle hospitality (Opera PMS), [...]
Europe is finally opening up and giving hope to millions who would get to travel again. As the curve flattens, car rentals are hoping to see demand and prices recover. In this in-depth analysis, RateGain shares insights on how the China market has recovered as well as provides country-wise analysis across key markets in Europe. [...]
España destaca, por desgracia, como uno de lo países que peor ha gestionado la pandemia, con uno de los ratios reales más altos de muertos por millón de habitantes. Pero parece que no hemos aprendido de nuestros errores y se ha implementado un protocolo en relación a los turistas que resulta claramente insuficiente. Desde la [...]
Faustino Fernández is the CEO and Founder of StaymyWay, a startup which offers an affordable, safe and secure cloud-based mobile key and access management tool designed specifically for Hotels and Vacation Rental properties. Staymyway provides versatile Access Solutions, chargeback proof and energy optimization. Faustino explains his vision about how travellers will avoid more than ever the physical contact [...]
Noelia Novella is the CEO and cofounder of Doinn, a startup which is a global housekeeping provider. They have created a marketplace of Cleaning and laundry services with quality and established companies for property owners, property managers and property management systems. In this interview, Noelia explains her vision about "Cleanliness" as a trend and also [...]
I have been in the travel industry for 28 years and I have lived many different epidemics (SARS, H1N1, Zika, etc..), life-changing events like 11S or 11M and many terrorist attacks that have been taking place for years in tourist destinations. And what I have learned is that it always happens the same: At the [...]
Regardless of the size of the Cruise companies and their political and economic influence, it is the time to say NO to the cruise industry and force them to change if they want to survive. The reasons are well known for anyone who is not short-sighted: - Cruises are not a mean of transportation, like buses, [...]
Back in the late 90s, when I was at Mundicolor Iberia, I eliminated the hard copies of the hotel vouchers and even create a virtual edition of Hotel Color booklets. I also eliminated the price of the brochures and created "dynamic brochures", where the only description of the travels was permanent. But 20 years later [...]
Some of us are so optimistic that we consider COVID19 as an opportunity to accelerate the changes that society has been requiring for a long time and to address the real challenges that the world has, using the technology as the mean for the evolution. But we are worried with the Politicians and the economic and [...]
I have chosen the name "Hard-Working Generation" to refer to those who were born in the 1930s and 1940s, decades marked by our Civil War and World War II. These people built with their work and effort the SPAIN that we now enjoy. Their ethics of improvement and hard-work, their ability to always look forward, [...]