CIO

JANUARY 1, 2025

The bigplayers,such as OTAs [Online Travel Agencies], are advancing in their adoption of new technologies, taking advantage of AI andbig datatools,while other actors are in earlier stages of integration, he says. However, he adds,the maturityvaries in one of the most consolidated verticals at a national level.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Frequent travelers who want to track their trips and reminisce about their favorite spots and travel memories now have a new app to do so. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

We realized quickly that we needed to meet the needs of our customers to manage not only travel spend, but all employee spend of company money,” Cohen told TechCrunch. “We We knew that employees were dispersed and that, instead of travel, they would now be expensing home office equipment and virtual software.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Progress — and challenges Accenture’s work with Saudia Airlines involves a “travel companion” model that is far more than an online travel agency, reservation agent, or travel guide, Guan said.

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Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Nov 29, 2024 — AltexSoft, a Travel & Hospitality Technology Consulting company, concludes a hackathon as a travel assistant based on ChatGPT API wins the competition. About AltexSoft AltexSoft is a technology consulting company focusing on travel tech and data services.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

For the bulk of the past two years, the pandemic has put the kibosh on corporate travel of nearly any kind. This has dampened investors’ enthusiasm in travel and expense (T&E) startups, predictably, whose expertise lies in creating software for travel and other forms of expensing. Image Credits: Itilite.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Two years before that, Boampong traveled to Kenya and was fascinated by how unbanked Kenyans sent and received money while paying bills with mobile money, a system of payments pioneered by Safaricom’s M-Pesa, which has close to 30 million customers.

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CIO

APRIL 23, 2025

Features like time-travel allow you to review historical data for audits or compliance. The time-travel functionality of the delta format enables AI systems to access historical data versions for training and testing purposes. Ensure reliability. A critical consideration emerges regarding enterprise AI platform implementation.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

JANUARY 22, 2025

Solution overview Consider ACME Corp, a leading fictional online travel agency developing an AI-powered holiday trip planner using Flows. For general travel inquiries, users receive instant responses powered by an LLM. You are AcmeGuide, an enthusiastic and knowledgeable travel guide.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Wheel the World wants to open the world up to people with disabilities and has made it its mission since 2018 to provide travel accommodations and experiences that fit their needs, both in the United States and worldwide. We caught up with founders Alvaro Silberstein and Camilo Navarro again after covering their $2 million seed round in 2021.

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CIO

APRIL 9, 2025

U of M has used Maizey to create a travel portal where chatbots answer common staff and professor questions, greatly reducing calls and emails staff used to have to handle manually. Historically, the folks who manage travel have heard every possible question. These FAQ-type apps appear to be a major win.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

And even though his first job was in the travel industry in the late 90s, it was a role that was a mix of IT support and finance. But travel was always going to run its course, knowing he wanted to immerse himself in as many industries as he could. “I After about three months, though, he just wanted tech.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2024

have become accustomed to enjoying free public restroom access pretty much anywhere their travels take them. Thanks to bans on pay toilets dating back to the 1970s, folks in the U.S. Depending on the town or city, however, free-use bathrooms aren’t necessarily plentiful — or well-maintained, for that matter.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

The company provides intrastate travel (via its Dailywaka offering) and interstate travel (via its Travelwaka offering) for its users via a mobile application. In Nigeria, the company caters to travelers across 21 cities. Travelers in Accra will begin to use the service when Plentywaka Ghana goes live on September 16.

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CIO

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Earlier in the week, American Airlines was forced to ground flights for up to an hour on Christmas Eve, one of the busiest travel days of the year. It cancelled four flights on Thursday, with a fifth cancellation expected on Friday.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The truth of generative AI is that you do your best because it’s a relatively unknown technology,” says Ollie Wildeman, VP, customer, at travel specialist Big Bus Tours. Many factors, including governance, security, ethics, and funding, are important, and it’s hard to establish ground rules.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

TripActions , a corporate travel and expenses company, has raised a combination of equity and debt at a post-money valuation of $9.2 Totaling $304 million, the Series G financing has been in the works since at least May, confirming earlier Bloomberg reports that the travel company was seeking financing at a higher valuation.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Have you ever stumbled upon a breathtaking travel photo and instantly wondered where it was and how to get there? billion international arrivals in 2023, international travel is poised to exceed pre-pandemic levels and break tourism records in the coming years. It’s like having your own personal travel agent whenever you need it.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Many rural areas don’t have good learning centers and as a result, students travel to capital Dhaka to prepare for their university admission exams. Access to education in Bangladesh is filled with inequalities, say the founders of edtech 10 Minute School. That option, however, is only available to families who have the financial means.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

million in Series C funding — first revealed in a regulatory filing and led by travel- and hospitality-focused firm Certares. ” Where top VCs are investing in travel, tourism and hospitality tech. Today it’s announcing that it has raised $41.7

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

The end result is that travelers have far more options today than they used to when choosing where to stay. One San Francisco-based startup has emerged that wants to not only give travelers more options, but make traveling more affordable, and it’s just raised $15 million toward that goal.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Su contribución fue determinante al emitir el Pasaporte DTC (Digital Travel Credential) tipo 1, cumpliendo con los estándares de ICAO. Desarrollo del e-Passport Como parte esencial de esta fase de prueba, Facephi desempeñó un papel clave en la emisión de las credenciales verificables.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 9, 2023

When I reviewed the Espresso Display last year, I concluded that it would be a great addition to a mobile office setup for workers who needed additional screen real estate without taking up too much space (and weight) in the travel setup. Now, Sydney-based Espresso Displays has launched its follow-up, the Espresso 17 Pro, further […]

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 6, 2025

Joanna Glasner Retail, travel and consumer Navan : Navan is the new Instacart. The corporate travel and expense-tracking platform, formerly known as TripActions, is the company that is always, definitely about to go public. Navan also disclosed last summer that travel bookings were up nearly 2x from year-earlier levels.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Archer Aviation, the electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle startup, has partnered with India’s travel and hospitality conglomerate InterGlobe Enterprises to launch an all-electric air taxi service in the country in 2026. If successful, it would make the South Asian nation its second international market outside the U.S.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

While CEOs may worry about the state of their IT systems, the CIO’s job is to assess the risk and reward of updating tools, says Andrey Ivashin, CIO at Dyninno Group, an umbrella company with travel, finance, and entertainment brands.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

While human-written code can also infringe on copyright or violate open-source licenses, the risk with AI-generated code is related to the data the AI is trained on, says Ilia Badeev, head of data science at Trevolution Group, a travel technology company. There’s a good chance many AI agents are trained on code protected by IP rights.

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Xebia

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In the railway industry, Andrew Martinez-Novoa, Naveen Kumar Nagavelly, and Katerina Tashoska shared how data-driven insights are revolutionizing train travel, improving both operational efficiency and customer experience in their presentation, “ Data: the Fuel Powering Train Travel. ”

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 13, 2025

Lets start with a simple travel booking scenario: Your interaction begins with telling a travel planning agent about your desired trip. By adding another agent, the flight booking agent, the travel planning agent can call upon it to find suitable flights.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

These things move slow by design — there’s a reason air travel is so safe. What Eviation (and many other ambitious electric and hybrid flight companies) envision is an activation of many new points of travel, like regional airports primarily used by cargo companies and private plane owners.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Jacknis agrees, noting that “It will be one of the great legal debates of this century” but reassures CIOs that this is a well-traveled path for technology adoption. We have enough problems with intellectual property as the fact remains there will be bad actors out there,” says Langer.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

I, for one, wasn’t at all surprised by the news since TripActions pivoted from being a travel expense management company to a corporate card and expense management for enterprises more generally soon after the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020. They are particularly more prevalent when companies pivot to adapt to external circumstances.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

JP Morgan Chase has also made myriad generative AI investments in its investments businesses as well as its Chase Travel, contact center, operations center, and credit card services bureau.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

I understand that I need to have at least six months left on my passport in order to travel to the United States. In general, yes, visitors who are traveling to the United States are required to have passports that are valid for at least six months after the date they arrive in the U.S. Is that (still) true? Do I need to delay my trip?

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

The move comes less than two months after the popular transit and travel planning app was scooped up by mobility tech company Via. Citymapper is lowering the paywall around its premium features and introducing a new subscription plan purely for removing ads. monthly fee ($9.99 per year) for those wanting to remove advertising.

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2025

Applications tend to operate more smoothly without data traveling to remote servers, enabling effective offline work. How AI PCs enable productivity gains AI PCs are engineered to manage complex algorithms and large datasets, handling multiple high-demand applications simultaneously.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

Card issuance and embedded finance have exploded over the past few years as sectors like online travel, marketplaces and digital banking use payments to stay at the heart of their customers’ financial lives. Examples include travel agencies, insurance companies, expense management platforms and more.

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