The obituary has been written many times. First it was the internet. Then it was the OTA. Then it was COVID, which was supposed to finish the job. The travel
A public accusation made on a quarterly earnings call has opened the biggest fault line in airline technology in years. For African carriers already navigating modern retailing with constrained resources,
Expedia Group B2B’s AI toolkit announcement is not a product update. It is a structural repositioning and the implications for GDS operators, NDC advocates, and African carriers run deeper than
HBX Group, the B2B travel technology marketplace behind Hotelbeds, Bedsonline, and Civitfun, has agreed to acquire Bridgify, an AI-native platform focused on experiences distribution. The deal was announced on 13
AI agents are being trained to book the world through structured inventory layers. Much of Africa’s travel supply still exists outside those layers. Nobody in the rooms where this architecture
The Nairobi startup has quietly assembled flight inventory, hotel supply, content mapping, and payments infrastructure in a matter of months. That is not a product update. That is a strategic
Eight years ago, BuuPass set out to digitise how Africans buy bus, rail, and flight tickets. It has since sold more than 30 million tickets. Now it wants to digitise
As airlines push toward full NDC, the industry’s most powerful distribution incumbents are doing something unexpected: agreeing with them. The question is whether their replacements will be ready in time.
The company’s Group CEO says 80% of its code is AI-assisted and sprint cycles have compressed from two weeks to three days. The first claim explains how the second might
The world’s largest hotel commerce platform is extending its distribution infrastructure into AI-driven discovery environments. The implications reach well beyond hospitality. SiteMinder announced on Wednesday that it is opening its
