Amadeus has agreed to acquire TravelClick from Thoma Bravo, a leading private equity investment firm, for US$1.52bn. TravelClick, which is headquartered in New York City, is a leading global hospitality provider that serves more than 25,000 customers across 176 countries. It provides cloud-based solutions, including…

BLS E-Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of BLS International Services, announced the acquisition of Delhi based Starfin India, a Banking Business Correspondent of India’s largest bank - State Bank of India. The company has over 1500 active customer service centres and will aim to provide…

Amadeus has announced that American Express Global Business Travel (GBT) will join the NDC-X program to help pilot Amadeus’ new NDC-enabled solution. The global business partner for managed travel will use Amadeus’ NDC-enabled solution to test and familiarize itself with the new NDC flow of…

Carlson Wagonlit Travel has launched CWT Travel Consolidator, an analytics tool that captures every part of an organization’s travel and expense spend, helping travel managers make the right decisions, and saving clients money. “Gathering, matching and reconciling travel and expense data is challenging and it’s…

MakeMyTrip has invested in Bengaluru-based Bitla Software. Bitla Software is India’s leading travel focused technology provider with SaaS, Cloud and Mobile based solutions to help customers expand their businesses. The company’s technologies are widely used domestically and internationally by bus operators, bus GDSs, online ticketing…

Standard Chartered Private Equity (SCPE) has agreed to acquire Naspers’ stake in Travel Boutique Online (TBO), a leading online B2B travel distribution company in India. Naspers first invested in TBO in 2012. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Ankush Nijhawan, Co-founder of TBO Group,…

Carzonrent has announced the integration of its car rental technology platform with SAP Concur. Now available in the SAP Concur App Center, Carzonrent will provide SAP Concur clients seamless expense management for corporate car rental reservation. This solution will now be available to all SAP…

MakeMyTrip launches a smart solution for the Do-It-Yourself new age traveller: Multi-City Travel. This solution works best for travellers who regretted missing out a great location en route their destination because they couldn’t draw up multiple flight itineraries. This feature will help travellers build multi-city…

With an aim to augment the career prospects of students in the field of tourism, Amadeus India, leading provider of IT solutions and pioneer in travel technology in India recently conducted a special training for students at the University of Kashmir. The training was undertaken…

Online travel company Goibibo has announced its partnership with PhonePe, a digital payments start-up. This app-in-app partnership will provide a unified login and payments experience to over 100 million PhonePe users while making their hotel bookings. As a part of this partnership, Goibibo will be…

Leading online travel agency Cleartrip has acquired Saudi Arabia based OTA Flyin. The deal is the first major cross-border transaction of its nature by an Indian OTA. The transaction will close once final regulatory and corporate approvals are received. The combined company will have over…

It’s tempting to dismiss Bitcoin, the world’s first digital currency, as a passing fad, and nothing to do with the world of business travel, but what if the technology upon which it is built could make the fear of forgetting your passport, a problem of…

Since 2016, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has had a certification process in place for the New Distribution Capability (NDC) standard, for the different industry stakeholders to show their capability to support NDC messaging. Amadeus has now renewed its level 3 certification for Altéa…

Cleartrip has tied up with the Kerala Tourism Development Corporation (KTDC) as its exclusive online booking partner for local tours and activities. Under the association, KTDC will sell all of its exclusive set of activities through the Cleartrip platform, including both existing and new inventory…

Booking.com has announced the 10 sustainable tourism startups receiving scaling grants as part of its 2018 Booking Booster accelerator programme. After three weeks of workshops and intensive coaching sessions led entirely by Booking.com employees and experts, the programme culminated in a final pitch to receive…