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Europe’s Sandemans Free Walking Tours Partners with TripAdmit for Cashless Tipping

Sandemans Tours has partnered with TripAdmit to integrate its digital tipping and reviews platform, TipDirect, with its network of guides in more than 30 cities across Europe, North America, and the Middle East. The service offers a cashless and contactless tipping solution, allowing guests to pay directly via their smartphones to tour guides. Chris Sandeman, managing director of…

Selene Brophy | 8 months ago

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Corporate Booking Platform CDS Groupe Acquires Germany’s Corporate Rates Club

CDS Groupe, a hotel booking platform for business travel, is expanding into the German market through an acquisition. The France-based company said this week that it has acquired Corporate Rates Club, the business travel segment of TourisMarketing Service GmbH. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Corporate Rates Club will continue to operate independently with…

Justin Dawes | 8 months ago

Travel Technology

Three New AI Trip Planners Join a Growing Market

There are too many AI trip planning tools to choose from, but many will disappear as time goes on.

Justin Dawes | 8 months ago

Business Travel

Business Travel Survey: Costly Mistakes to Avoid and More ‘Blended Travel’

Companies looking to reduce the rising costs of business travel would do well to evaluate their reporting systems, to avoid the risks associated with paper-based processes.

Selene Brophy | 8 months ago

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Airlines

Q&A: Accelerating Digital Transformation to Optimize Airline Revenue

The opportunity for airlines and online travel agencies (OTAs) to capitalize on air travel demand has never been greater — but in an age of increasing uncertainty, creating a business strategy centered around technical agility is key.

Hitit + Skift | 9 months ago

Tour Operators

Virtuoso Luxury Sales Spike as Travelers Splurge on Private Experiences

Experience continues to trump price for high-net-worth travelers, whose appetite for luxury travel isn't slowing down.

Selene Brophy, Skift | 9 months ago

Startups

Archer Aviation Raises $215 Million for Urban Flying Taxis: Startup Funding Roundup

Archer Aviation expects its flying taxis to be in the air in 2025, and Atmosfy wants to change the way people leave dining reviews.

Justin Dawes | 9 months ago

Airlines

More Airlines Use Next-Gen Tech to Sell Journeys on Other Carriers or Trains

Dozens of airlines have been creating alternatives to traditional interline agreements, selling fares on other airlines or railways. A few factors appear to be driving more of these deals.

Sean O'Neill | 10 months ago

Travel Technology

5 Ways AI Will Boost Travel: “More With Less,” Says Microsoft Exec

There are so many ways travel could benefit from generative AI, but there's a lot of data cleanup and investment that needs to happen first.

Justin Dawes | 10 months ago

Hotels

New Hotel Tech: Room Service Robots and Holograms

Maybe hotels should focus first on the basics, like getting on the cloud and ditching cable TV. But having fun products like robots is, at the very least, good for marketing.