Tropical Tours es desde hace muchos años la agencia de viajes líder en Bolivia y ahora, de la mano de su CEO, Jerónimo Vaqueiro, continuador de la aventura iniciada en 1980 por Doña Fanny Mealla, comienza una nueva etapa, como estropical.com, para convertirse en una referencia en LATAM. En la compañía creen firmemente que se puede cambiar el mundo [...]
Me resistía a escribir este artículo para no dar la imagen de gruñón que no encaja en este mundo chupiguay que los mononeuronales quieren imponernos. Pero después de mi experiencia con Boliviana de Aviación no he podido aguantar más y debo dar rienda suelta a mis reflexiones, que trataré de ordenar. La primera idea base [...]
La aceleradora Top Seeds Lab y la Sociedad de Capital Riesgo Travel Tech 1, con el patrocinio de Deloitte, han celebrado la V edición de su Travel Innovation Summit En la semana de FITUR 2022, apoyando a la recuperación de la industria turística, se ha celebrado de forma presencial, el Travel Innovation Summit, con el [...]
Se habla mucho de imponer la paridad de género en los diferentes ámbitos, pero en ocasiones no se profundiza en que no es una cuestión numérica sino una necesidad de no perder oportunidades para que los proyectos tengan éxito. Como en 2022 cumplo 30 años de experiencia laboral, tengo la suficiente perspectiva para analizarlo retrospectivamente [...]
SoftBank Group-backed Indian hospitality startup Oyo Hotels and Rooms is expected to file for an initial public offering (IPO) next week to raise around $1 billion, a source told Reuters on Thursday. The hotel aggregator is looking to list in India’s financial capital of Mumbai and its IPO is tentatively pegged at between $1 billion [...]
Skift and Amazon Web Services (AWS) collaborated in summer 2021 on a global research study of global travel leaders to produce the 2021 Digital Transformation Report. Building on the insights from a survey of over a thousand travel industry leaders across a diverse range of sectors in North America, Europe, Asia- Pacific, and Latin America, [...]
After operating in stealth mode since late 2019, a new corporate travel platform called Spotnana is launching this week with $41 million already raised and several industry veterans involved as investors, advisors and executives. Spotnana co-founder and CEO Sarosh Waghmar, founder of travel management company WTMC, says the cloud-native, API-friendly platform is “not just a [...]
A Series C round of $150 million from a string of high-profile venture capital organizations has been secured by Flyr. The U.S.-based company has won the backing from lead investor and growth equity company WestCap. Others participating in the round include Silver Lake Waterman, WindrCo, Peter Thiel, Streamlined Ventures, JetBlue Technology Ventures and Gopher Asset Management. It [...]
At a time when the industry confronts extraordinary challenges, The Phocuswright Conference "Travel's Reinassance" promises to be the platform that inspires innovative and smart thinking for global travel leaders and innovators. They will host industry leaders in person this year. Expect valuable face-to-face networking opportunities, cocktail receptions, opportunities to collaborate and catch up, and the [...]
Beonprice has been cooking something great for a long time. Thanks to their relationship with travel industry players like you, in recent months they have been able to listen carefully and work hard to evolve with them. They are going to share their new and refreshing recipe on REV_OLUTION - an international hybrid event broadcast [...]