TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

We first covered the NUMA Group (then called Cosi) back in 2019 when it raised €5 million for its “full-stack” hospitality alternative to boutique hotels, and then later on when it raised €20 million. NUMA provides boutique hotels, offering around 2,500 units in Berlin, Munich, Rome, Milan, Madrid, Barcelona and Vienna.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

For instance, in the hospitality industry, Amenitiz focuses exclusively on independent hotels and B&Bs. Of couse, when you arrive at a hotel, the receptionist is sitting in front of a computer. And yet, hotels have changed quite a lot in recent years. Moreover, they work for several hotels at the same time.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Today, the company announced two new booking tool features, including guaranteed accessibility for hotel rooms booked from its website and a price match offer. The company also now price matches hotel rooms from other booking platforms, including Booking.com, Expedia and Travelocity. “We Those are things that we haven’t done yet.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

With travel and tourism rising across Latin America, Casai , a startup combining Airbnb single unit rentals with hotel room amenities, has raised $23 million to expand its business across Latin America. “I wanted to define a product from a consumer angle,” said Barawid. “I wanted this to exist.”

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CIO

AUGUST 11, 2024

La tecnología está transformando no solo la forma en la que los hoteles operan y se relacionan con sus clientes, sino también cómo interactúan con el entorno sin mermar sus cuentas de resultados. Marta Marcos, vicepresidenta sénior de Tecnologías de la Información y Sistemas de Minor Hotels Europe & Américas.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The hotel sector has been undergoing a digital revolution for years, transforming not only the way hotels operate and interact with their customers, but also with the environment, all without harming their bottom lines. Recognition of a digital future Minor’s growth wouldn’t have been possible without a commitment to digitalization.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Vendease , an online marketplace that allows restaurants and other food businesses to buy supplies straight from manufacturers and farms, has raised a seed round of $3.2 million, the company confirmed to TechCrunch.

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CIO

JANUARY 5, 2024

With stints at Procter & Gamble, HPE and DHL, Jaime González-Peralta landed at Radisson Hotel Group four years ago as CIO for EMEA and then became global CIO in April 2020 — a particularly complex moment due to the paralysis that the pandemic inflicted on the world of travel. How many people, then, make up Radisson’s IT area worldwide?

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

La diversidad y el volumen de sus operaciones en distintos países ha llevado al Palladium Hotel Group a buscar soluciones tecnológicas que mejoren su gestión de los datos. Para ello, ha implementado una nueva plataforma de monitorización que le permite detectar y responder a los problemas operativos de forma más rápida y eficaz.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Have you ever looked longingly at the website of a posh hotel or resort and thought, “Man, I wish I could hang out there.”. The six-year-old company gives people the option to purchase day passes to more than 900 hotels and resorts — think Ritz Carlton, Four Seasons, W Hotels, Hyatt Hotels, Fairmont and Westin — around the world.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The eight-year-old Indian budget hotel giant has filed the paperwork (PDF) with the local market regulator for an initial public offering, in which it is seeking to raise about $1.16 Oyo has also streamlined its relationship with hotels in recent quarters. Oyo is ready to explore the public markets.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

operator of 28 hotel and casino properties across the US, was negotiating a fresh enterprise agreement with VMware prior to its acquisition, reported The Register. “Many are reframing how to manage infrastructure, especially as demand for AI and cloud-native innovation escalates,” Carter said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Initially focused on business travelers, with plans to install machines in hotel hallways, the COVID-19 pandemic found the startup switching focus — a fairly common story in 2020. I’d expect the team will also refocus some of its efforts on earlier models — like hotel delivery — once travel ramps up again in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

Some months later they saw a hotel manager openly complain to a vendor about the unsteady supply of produce the hotel was getting. On its website, it is described as “a procurement platform that provides a transparent process for hotels and restaurants to get the best quality products at the best possible price.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Rather than searching by destination, Elude gathers information like budget, time frame and trip preferences (think beach versus mountains), then presents users with flight and hotel results for destinations they may never have thought existed or could be traveled to on their budgets. stars and above.

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CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Ransomware attacks Recall the ransomware hack on MGM Resorts International hotel reservation systems, digital room keys, casino gaming systems, and restaurant point-of-sale systems. Natural language processing can analyze and categorize data as it’s created or ingested, automatically applying appropriate security tags and access controls.

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Ruby on Rails

MARCH 6, 2025

Accommodation: The Rails Foundation will cover 3 nights hotel accommodation for each speaker in the speaker hotel (Sept 3-6). It is not required that you stay in this hotel, but the offer only extends to the hotel of our choosing. It is not transferable to another hotel.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Instead, the e-scooter manufacturer is launching a more exclusive version that will see its slick e-scooters available to rent at hotels, luxury apartments and coworking spaces. We like for people to get exposed to experience in a hotel and then want one for their everyday use. We started it because of numerous inbound requests.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Bob W , the self-described “tech-driven” hospitality provider that offers an alternative to traditional hotels and short-stay rentals, is disclosing €10 million in seed funding. Revenue is also said to have grown by 80% in 2020, with the company putting a lot of marketing toward claims behind being more hygienic than many hotels.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

For IHG Hotels and Resorts, the cloud provides just the right accommodation for business success. Moreover, IHG’s cloud backbone enables it to take advantage of emerging SaaS offerings, such as Speakeasy AI conversational chatbots, and deliver its own IHG Voice Cloud AI service to help guests and reception desk clerks at hundreds of hotels.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In September, MGM Resorts was hit by a devastating ransomware attack, downing operations at some of its most iconic casino hotels in Las Vegas, including the Bellagio, Mandalay Bay and the Cosmopolitan. The […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

Wheel the World collects over 200 data points on hotels through its Accessibility Mapping System, like hotel room measurements, and digitizes them to build its marketplace so that travelers can determine if that particular room will meet their needs. We have a clear belief and purpose to make the world accessible,” Silberstein said.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

JANUARY 22, 2025

However, when users want to search or book flights and hotels, they are connected to an agent who guides them through the process, collecting essential information while maintaining the session until completion. The flow offers two distinct interaction paths. For general travel inquiries, users receive instant responses powered by an LLM.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The revelation will deliver a huge reassurance to employees and hotel partners of Oyo, which eliminated or furloughed more than 5,000 jobs earlier this year and reported in April that the pandemic had cut its revenue and demand by more than 50%. billion — ready for IPO. But I’d also tell you, I think that makes OYO resilient.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Travel booking app Hopper announced today that it’s launching a number of new flexibility products that are designed to help customers save money on hotel, flight and car bookings. The pricing for the new Leave For Any Reason option is averaging about $30 per hotel reservation, Hopper says. Image Credits: Hopper.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

SoftBank, the largest investor in Oyo, has cut the Indian hotel chain’s valuation to $2.7 billion at a time when the startup is months away from going public, a source familiar with the matter said. “These are dramatically improved results and the strong performance trajectory is expected to continue.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Sota Kimura, co-founder and CEO of SmartRyde, founded SmartRyde in 2017 after he experienced trouble getting a taxi from the airport to the hotel when he traveled abroad, Kimura told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Cabana, another startup, launched by a former Lime executive , is merging the RV rental market with hotels. Former Lime exec launches Cabana, a company that merges #vanlife and hotels. That funding included a $13 million extension to a $50 million Series B round that it quietly closed early this year, as TechCrunch reported.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

“Definitely for major hotels, there are going to be big changes, but for vacation rentals and boutique-style hotels that offer different experience, this a lot more accessible and a lot more appealing. . “Yes, the pandemic changed travel, but not necessarily in bad ways across the board,” Soto said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

Sometimes companies have the perception that the best way to reduce travel costs is to get people to get cheaper flights or cheaper hotels and make two stops on the way to two places,” he said. “We And if a company requests it, employees can only see flight and hotel options that are in policy.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Hopper’s tech already powers Capital One Travel and Premier Collection, Capital One’s marketplace of hotels and resorts exclusive to Capital One Venture X cardholders. It’s a safe bet that similar experiences along that vein are forthcoming. Image Credits: Hopper. billion this year.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Officely is a pivot; the team started back in 2017 with a different focus: hotel room booking. “We just got crushed by COVID. Overnight, we lost all of our customers,” says Shepherd-Cross. Luxury Escapes).

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

Butler would lease a hotel kitchen on one property and use it to provide meal delivery services to in-house guests there and in other, nearby hotels. According to a Forbes profile, he opened his first restaurant in New York City at the age of 19 — located inside a “big-box” hotel. Layoffs begin.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

The company’s customer list boasts names like Marriott Hotels, and it announced a $520,000 seed round, led by Sahra Growth Capital, to give it nearly $570,000 in total funding. Siddharth Kaul , 18, Elan Rosen , 20, and Ibrahim Mohammed, 20, started the company after finding some common ground in retail and events.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

USER'S INPUT -- Here is the user's input (remember to respond with a markdown code snippet of a json blob with a single action, and NOTHING else): Recommend me places in Marina Bay Sands AI: ```json { "action": "FindPlaceRecommendations", "action_input": "Marina Bay Sands, Singapore" } ``` Human: TOOL RESPONSE: [{'Place': {'AddressNumber': '10', 'Categories': (..)

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Chesky says that it rivals the kind of coverage offered by many hotel chains and certainly beats out other booking sites like Booking.com and VRBO. There are no cookie cutter hotel rooms on the platform. Again, this is meant to give travelers confidence to get back out there and go on vacation. The Bottom Line. Probably not.

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CIO

AUGUST 26, 2024

Así fue como se lanzó al mercado como una plataforma tecnológica global destinada a llevar la rentabilidad de los hoteles al siguiente nivel. Su valor añadido radica precisamente en su RMS, ya que es capaz de optimizar los ingresos y la distribución de los hoteles analizando las expectativas y los hábitos de compra de los usuarios.

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