Skyscanner has launched its new beta travel planner, Road Trips. In partnership with Inspirock, the personalised itinerary platform combines Skyscanner’s booking services with the latter’s personalisation engine for sightseeing and activities. Travellers can plan the perfect road trip, including optimal routes, hotels and accommodations and…

With the People’s Republic of China seeing strong domestic recovery, Shiji, China's leading hotel information systems player, has partnered with global travel technology company Amadeus to provide new content from Chinese hotels & chains to the Amadeus Travel Platform. This partnership will benefit an increasing…

CWT has launched a new customer experience (CX) platform. The 360° real-time solution shows where a customer is in their trip, their travel policy and trip history, as well as their channel contacts - via a consumer-grade service screen. Niklas Andreen, President & Chief Operating…

Riya Travel has strengthened its relationship with Amadeus and has implemented NDC, enhancing its retailing capabilities. As one of India’s largest retail agencies, this partnership ensures Riya Travels can provide richer, tailored content to its customers in Asia Pacific. NDC opens a world of opportunities,…

Cleartrip has signed a multi-year agreement with Sabre. The expanded, long-term deal sees Sabre become Cleartrip’s GDS partner and is part of the OTA’s strategy to streamline its GDS relationships. Amit Taneja, Chief Commercial Officer, Cleartrip, said, “This is an important partnership for Cleartrip, and…

Travel, tourism and hospitality are among the most high-touch industries as it requires more human contacts, face-to-face interactions and physical presence than any other sector. Since the declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO), this industry has been massively impacted…

Sabre Corporation has today released an insightful new whitepaper outlining the pioneering new methodologies it is creating to enable its airline partners to create more holistic, accurate network plans as their focus shifts from short-term planning to long-term recovery. Sabre’s latest whitepaper, The Art &…

MakeMyTrip is rolling out a new functionality on its mobile app to allow customers to book their vaccination slot through it app, download and link the vaccination certificate to their profile and avail special travel offers and value adds on travel bookings made through the…

Leading software and technology provider Sabre Corporation and Virgin Australia have reaffirmed their long-standing relationship with the renewal of their global distribution agreement. Under the renewed agreement, Sabre will continue to distribute Virgin Australia flights and services through the Sabre GDS marketplace. “Although international borders…

ixigo Trains App has emerged as the world’s 10th most downloaded travel and navigation apps on iOS app store and Google Play store (excluding games) in Q1 2021, according to App Annie. Further, ConfirmTkt (acquired by ixigo earlier this year) has also featured amongst the…

Global air transport IT provider SITA has released its annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report, which reveals that, despite the pandemic, the company remains set to become a certified carbon neutral organization by or before 2022. This achievement is well ahead of common airline industry…

Verteil Technologies, the first NDC aggregator in India to facilitate access to Cathay Pacific NDC content for the travel companies across the world by rolling out its NDC content that includes a full range of NDC features such as Shopping, Pricing, Order Creation, Order Change…

Travelport has announced a strategic, long-term collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to use advanced cloud technology to accelerate the digital transformation of retailing in the travel industry. The collaboration, which unites globally renowned expertise in travel technology, cloud technology, and hyper-personalized retailing, will focus…

Sabre Corporation has teamed up with travel risk management platform GOPASS Global to help deliver its game-changing COVID-19 biosecurity risk analytics capabilities to the travel industry. GOPASS Global solutions helps to recommence travel with confidence through the use of advanced analytics to deliver a single…

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, expanded its strategic partnership with Virgin Atlantic, one of the UK's leading airlines, to help the latter embark on a new phase of recovery and growth. The enhanced partnership builds on…