As Booking.com’s Chief Executive Officer, Glenn D. Fogel is responsible for the global strategy and operations of Booking.com, including the management of all business units within the organisation. Glenn also serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Booking Holdings, the parent company of Booking.com and other digital brands, a position he has held [...]
Dana Dunne, CEO of OdigeO, the largest European OTA, explains how he is leading the evolution of the different travel brands managed by OdigeO from a flight specialist to a traveller centric company, levering its technological DNA to accompany the traveller throughout all the travel journey.
Dentro de su participación en el Travel Innovation Summit organizado por Top Seeds Lab, con el apoyo del Grupo Jumbotours, asistimos a la determinación y entusiasmo emprendedor de Pol Perpiñan, quien con tan solo 15 años no rehuye el reto de ayudar a transformar la indutria turística, con un proyecto centrado en el alquiler colaborativo de vehiculos [...]
Busbud, the online marketplace that enables global travelers to shop for and book intercity bus tickets on over 1.4 million bus routes worldwide, today announced the close of US$11 million in series B funding (approximately CAD$14 million). The round is led by iNovia Capital and includes new investors Teralys, Claridge and Plaza Ventures, as well [...]
Joymode, an innovator in the movement from ownership to access, today announced the closing of a $14.4 million Series A investment led by Naspers through its Naspers Ventures division with participation from previous investors. Also announced today, Mike Katz of Naspers Ventures, has joined Joymode’s Board of Directors. Joymode members can access thousands of products [...]
London-based CityStasher is building what it calls an ‘Airbnb for luggage’, a network of brick and mortar businesses across Europe that will store your luggage for a few hours after you have checked out or are waiting to check into your travel accommodation. To help with this mission, CityStasher has raised $1.1 million in seed [...]
Blacklane, a chauffeured car service, received “the largest investment round” it has ever received. Given that its last round was $20 million, we estimate that this Series D round was at least $40 million. The Berlin-based company said investors included the Al Fahim family business in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, Daimler Mobility Services, and [...]
Ozlo, which developed the Ozlo app for iOS and Android, specializes in understanding ambiguous phrases in subjective text-based conversations — for example, determining whether a restaurant is "group friendly" or serves good oysters. The acquisition could help Facebook build more compelling AI-powered experiences within Messenger. Ozlo's knowledge graph is one of the firm's key differentiators. [...]
TUI Group has tapped digital travel discovery platform Utrip to help personalize the traveler planning experience through artificial intelligence. The new pilot program between TUI Destination Services, the experiences arm of the German global tourism company, and Utrip is designed to curate user-specific travel packages for TUI’s 20 million customers. Utrip’s technology - which combines [...]