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
The property management system is no longer just where hotels run their operations. It is where they compete. Hotel distribution has always had a structural problem that the industry preferred
HBX Group has completed the full acquisition of PerfectStay, bringing the Paris-based travel technology company fully into its business after initially taking a minority stake in 2024. On paper, the
For years, the travel industry didn’t fail to bundle. It was never designed to. Flights were distributed through one system, hotels through another, and experiences remained fragmented at the edges,
As the airline industry continues to scale NDC, one issue refuses to go away: fragmentation. Multiple schema versions, inconsistent implementations, and ongoing upgrade cycles have turned what was meant to
