On July 1, Checkout.com announced a new partnership with Agoda, the Booking Holdings-owned OTA that lists more than six million hotels and holiday properties across 39 languages and 27 markets.
Travelport has expanded its NDC capabilities by bringing Air Canada’s Flight Pass into Smartpoint and the TripServices API, allowing travel agencies to shop, book and service prepaid one-way flight credits
Kiruba Shankar needed an Etihad ticket. So he pointed Claude Code at the airline’s website and asked it to find the best option across a month of dates, four routes,
Travelport has formally launched TripServices, its cloud-native API platform designed to replace the fragmented, cryptic-based infrastructure that has defined GDS technology for decades. The announcement, made today, positions the company
By Chiheb Ouertani For several years, I have been part of conversations about airline distribution with travel agencies operating across very different markets: Europe, North Africa, West Africa and the
The travel industry has spent the last eighteen months building systems that can book flights, reserve hotels, and manage itineraries without a human in the loop. The infrastructure for autonomous
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
