Articles tagged “languages”

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Online Travel

How Global Travel Brands Can Get Their Employees on the Same Page

Managing a global travel company comes with its own set of challenges that national and local travel brands don’t usually have to face. Communication among employees is often a chief concern, but providing content available in their local language can help improve employee engagement and drive efficiency.

How Global Travel Brands Can Get Their Employees on the Same Page
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Business Travel

Building Trust Across Borders Through a Global Content Strategy

In our current era of global anxiety, the brands that will have an advantage with today’s travelers are those that will be able to help ease traveler friction, build trust, and alleviate stress through easily accessible, relevant content.

Building Trust Across Borders Through a Global Content Strategy

Media and PR

Rosetta Stone Turns to Vice to Reinvigorate Its Language Education Brand

Rosetta Stone has recently made major changes to its products, but it's now learning how to speak the language of a younger customer set for whom the changes will benefit most.

Rosetta Stone Turns to Vice to Reinvigorate Its Language Education Brand

Hotels

Five travel startups for speaking foreign slang and finding friends abroad

Five travel startups for speaking foreign slang and finding friends abroad

Online Travel

Google Translate adds Cambodia’s Khmer as its 66th language

Although Google lagged behind Apple in adding language support for the Cambodian language, its expanding portfolio provides better tools for communication between travelers, global businesses, and foreigners.

Online Travel

Rosetta Stone buys language-learning startup Livemocha for $8.5 million

Rosetta Stone remains the stalwart of language learning platforms, and rather than compete by innovating internally, it’s allowing the new crop of startups to ripen and then snatching them up one by one.

Online Travel

Babbel’s $10 million in funding translates into more mobile platforms

Hotels

Airbnb updates its iOS app to make the mobile and web booking experience more similar

As Airbnb’s mobile bookings increase, it only makes sense that it strive to make the process as easy as possible, especially in terms of language as the company races to infiltrate foreign markets ahead of its competitors.

Airbnb updates its iOS app to make the mobile and web booking experience more similar

Airlines

JetBlue is looking to hire up to 400 bilingual flight attendants this winter

The airline says the hiring doesn’t mean it’s increasing flights, but the language requirement reflects the carrier's interest in investing in overseas routes and services.

JetBlue is looking to hire up to 400 bilingual flight attendants this winter

Business Travel

TripLingo rolls out version 2.0 with free content and on-call human translators

TripLingo’s long-term success will come from establishing partnerships with businesses and booking agencies to ensure the technology lands in the hands of monolinguists again and again.

TripLingo rolls out version 2.0 with free content and on-call human translators