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How Travel-Tech Startups Are Opening Up New Categories of Holiday Planning

Travel planning today is no longer limited to booking flights and hotels. A new generation of travel-tech and experience-led platforms is making it easier for travellers to discove...

AI bookings face flight hurdle

AI may be playing a larger role in traveller research, but experts say technology capable of…

UK Travelers Lead Europe in Using AI and Social Media To Plan Holidays, New Study Reveals

MMGY Travel Intelligence's 2026 study finds 52% of UK travellers use AI for trip planning, up 12 points year-on-year, the fastest growth among five major European markets surveyed.

Next Gen Tech List

As the hospitality industry prepares for a new era of global travel demand and operational complexity, technology is becoming increasingly central to hotel performance. LODGING’s N...

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Emerging Travel expands Travelport partnership

Emerging Travel Group, a global travel technology company, has expanded its integration with…

Travelport Launches TripServices to Power AI Travel Booking

AI agents can already help travelers dream up trips. Booking them is harder. Travelport is betting that cleaner access to flights, hotels, and extras will keep travel sellers from...

Turkey Quietly Built One of the World’s Most Complete Travel Tech Stacks

Durable travel tech is forged by hard operating conditions, not venture capital and conference circuits, and Turkey is the proof.

Hotel Chains Built AI for the Traveler Who Comes to Them First. That Traveler Is Leaving.

Wednesday brought a sharp argument that hotel chains have built AI tools to defend direct bookings while the discovery journey has already moved to ChatGPT and Google AI, two Oracl...

Emerging Tech Policy Issues

The application of technology in operations and in the workplace is quickly becoming a consequential public policy focus facing America’s hoteliers. From pricing software and new u...

Hotel Distribution Technology Chart 2026: Why Visibility Is Becoming the New Distribution Strategy

The 2026 chart argues that hotel distribution now starts before the booking journey, with AI assistants, maps, and social platforms shaping traveler decisions before any OTA or bra...

TRAVEL COMPANIES ADOPT AI BEYOND CHATBOTS

Kiru Thirukailayanathan named Chief Technology Officer for shoptravel Group Inc.

Kiru Thirukailayanathan has been named Chief Technology Officer of shoptravel Group Inc. — the Canadian travel platform built to be a travel co-pilot rather than just a booking e...

Connectivity Is Becoming Travel’s Most Critical Trust Signal

Connectivity has become a foundational layer of the travel experience. As the smartphone becomes the control point for travel, reliable connection is becoming less about convenienc...

RealTime Reservation Acquires STAY to Unify Hotel Ancillary Revenue Tech — Exclusive

Hotels have chased non-room revenue for years without consolidating the fragmented tech underneath. This acquisition puts one shopping cart and one shared data foundation ahead of...

The Two-Sided AI Squeeze That Only Travel Faces

Travel is the only major industry getting hit from both directions at once: AI search volumes are exploding without converting while total AI token bills internally are rising.

Travel’s Top AI Operators

The travel industry has spent three years talking about artificial intelligence. In the summer of 2026, we’re finally building with it. In earnings calls, CEOs now field questions...

MAJOR TRENDS SHAPING TOURISM DISTRIBUTION OVER THE NEXT DECADE

Airalo and the Rise of eSIM Travel: A Smarter Way to Stay Connected Abroad

International travel depends on connectivity more than ever before. From navigating unfamiliar cities to managing reservations and staying in touch with family back home, reliable...

Cognizant to bring claude capabilities to traveltech firm Travelport

Partnership to fast-track AI-powered solutions for airlines, hotels and travel platforms worldwide

Global Travel Intelligence Platform Reaches Major Milestone

An inspiring announcement from Travel and Tour World highlights a major milestone for the digital intelligence platform, which served as the official media partner for more than 12...

GAGE Technology: Smart, safe technology solutions for modern hospitality in Maldives

The expectations of modern hospitality continue to evolve. Beyond exceptional guest experiences, today’s resorts and hotels are expected to deliver the highest standards of safety,...

Should Tourism Boards Build AI for Their Stakeholders?

Three models are emerging for how tourism boards serve their operators with AI, and it is a lot more hands-on than past tech cycles.

Payment technologies make tourism convenient

According to the director of the product development and process services department of the National System of Payment Cards Maria Tochilova, convenience and profitability are equa...