Travel Technology

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Key topics include business travel technology, emerging trends, and the impact of tech advancements on travel operations. Our features and news provide deep dives into developments shaping travel's future.

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Airlines

Forget about food carts: Qantas rolls out iPad-charging trolleys for new in-flight entertainment

The transition marks the priorities of passengers, which have come to expect and prefer connectivity over corn chips on flights.

12 years ago

Hotels

HotelTonight raises $60,000 for American Red Cross by matching every dollar spent in wake of Sandy

Hurricane Sandy brought to a light a lesser-known function for the popular booking app as a disaster relief tool.

Samantha Shankman | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Meet Desti: It's the next trip-planning service that is going to pivot

It's always a surprise when yet another good-looking, well-engineered, and intelligent trip-planning site or app launches and thinks that it will be the one to magically solve a problem that not too many people actually have.

12 years ago

Online Travel

Guess who stands to make biggest from Kayak's $1.8 billion sale? The CTO

It isn't the CEO, but the technical brains that wins the biggest. One for the engineering talent on this one.

Rafat Ali | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Marriott creates tech-free zones in Caribbean and Mexican resorts

More PR than anything else, but still a good idea: optional tech-free zones with enough reminders to make us feel guilty. Just hope they don't use that "Braincation" phrase on those signs.

12 years ago

Online Travel

In-Flight Wifi provider Row44 bought in a $430 million deal

Golden Eagle Acquisitions sees an opportunity in melding content and Wi-Fi technology, but Row 44's relatively small foothold may not make it the ideal tool for the blending experiment. Also, users will evolve more and more towards their own entertainment, so the content part will become redundant over time.

12 years ago

Online Travel

What Priceline's purchase of Kayak means: Brand power and big mobile push

The culture clash between relatively button-down Priceline and sometimes sockless and irreverent Kayak couldn't be more stark. But Kayak will operate semi-independently and the merger may finally help Kayak become the global brand that Priceline's Boyd thinks it can become.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Priceline-buying-Kayak: Kayak's short history as a public company, in links

It will take couple of quarters before the deal closes, so Kayak will still have couple of opportunities to report separate earnings.

12 years ago

Online Travel

Kayak reaps $3.5 million in mobile revenue in Q3 as overall revenues rise 30 percent

With 3.1 million downloads of its mobile apps in the third quarter (bringing total to over 20 million overall), and increasing prowess in monetizing queries from smartphones, Kayak is certainly a leader in mobile within the travel industry.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago

Airlines

Amadeus reports an OK Q3 as it keeps on biting off bigger chunks of the airline industry

Amadeus is much more than a global distribution system provider, and the airline IT solutions side of its business is growing much faster than the still-larger travel agency side.

Dennis Schaal | 12 years ago