Articles tagged “amadeus”

The Takeoff is a video series from Skift and Amadeus exploring the key elements of the startup mindset, and what it takes to transition from early stage travel startup to next level innovator. The second episode is on Adaptability: pivoting, changing tactics and why it’s better to be committed to a problem rather than a solution. .

The travel industry’s landscape is changing by way of innovation and disruption from the startup world. This paper maps the entrepreneurial journey and lays out essential takeaways for the travel…

If Amadeus and InterContinental Hotels Group build a new guest reservations system for the "community," will the hotel industry community buy in and introduce the system? That's the hope, anyway.

In partnership with the InterContintinental Hotels Group, Amadeus is trying to build a hotel industry reservations platform. Other players, including Sabre and other hotel groups, will definitely have something to say about that.

When comparing the total CEO compensation of the three major travel distribution companies it is ironic that Luis Maroto, the CEO of the largest and most profitable company of the trio, Madrid-based Amadeus, took home the lowest compensation.

The big question for the Lufthansa Group is whether other airlines will follow its lead. Either way, things are about to get nasty.

The global distribution world has long offered vacation rentals to travel agents but the investments by Amadeus Ventures and former Sabre CFO Jeff Jackson in BookingPal symbolize new and more serious interest.

What is this world coming to when airline stocks are actually an attractive investment? The biggest airlines got a helluva lot bigger in 2014, setting the pace for growth among the largest publicly traded travel companies on the planet.

Putin is riding a wave of nationalism in Russia and he intends to mess with foreign companies' businesses, including Internet, airline and other travel companies, in a backlash against European and American sanctions.

B2B travel companies are taking advantage of social media's inherent function of connecting with real people.