Kate Harden-England

🌍 ZYTLYN, an AI-predictive travel platform, partners with Holibob, an experiences marketing platform, to leverage AI for transforming travel marketing and sales in the Middle East and North Africa. Their collaboration aims to enhance digital marketing, ecommerce personalization, and drive revenue and customer loyalty by predicting and marketing travel experiences. The partnership focuses on countries in the Middle East seeking to become top tourism destinations and offers a turnkey AI marketing solution for travel brands and destinations to boost engagement and revenue. ZYTLYN CEO emphasizes AI's role in market share growth, while Holibob CEO highlights the importance of activities and experiences in travel for strong ROI campaigns.

📍 Travelgenix introduces a comprehensive update to its website builder, enhancing SEO for travel businesses. The updated SEO management tool simplifies attracting visitors and bookings. It features a centralized SEO settings management platform and a dashboard for handling meta titles to keyword tags. AI integration generates SEO-optimized content, including meta descriptions and titles. An automatic alt tag generator for images is also included, facilitating visibility in image searches. Andy Speight, CEO of Travelgenix, emphasizes the tool's simplicity and affordability for expanding travel businesses and generating leads.

🏗 Cardiff-based Lovetovisit, founded in 2021, secured £3.2m in venture capital led by Venrex and Redrice Ventures. The platform, boasting £7.4m revenue, facilitates bookings for local attractions and events, listing over 2,700 products accessed by 3.2+ million users. With partners like Alton Towers and Chester Zoo, 80% of its offerings are exclusive. Investment aims for UK expansion and doubling inventory annually for three years, enhancing AI for user experience and scaling internationally.

✈ American Airlines renewed its subscription to Sabre's PRISM, a travel contract management solution. PRISM provides 24/7 analytics and reporting, with technical support, optimizing corporate travel contracts by processing data from over 5,000 sources globally. In 2023, PRISM processed more than 2 million individual corporate flight bookings. American Airlines aims to enhance planning, execution, and measurement of corporate contracts leveraging PRISM analytics.

🏨 W Sydney, a five-star hotel at Darling Harbour, collaborates with IRIS for a digital guest experience app. The technology enhanced guest satisfaction and operational efficiency, leading to increased room service orders and ancillary revenue in the first 6 months. W Sydney's B&F director Anand Prabeer acknowledges the app as a game-changer for the hotel's service and revenue generation. IRIS' VP of sales and marketing, Graham Rushin, expresses enthusiasm about the partnership and ongoing efforts to meet guest expectations for efficient service.

✈ Travelport, a travel technology firm, has struck a deal with Finnair, the national flag carrier of Finland, to offer multi-source content including New Distribution Capability (NDC) and traditional content through the Travelport+ platform. Finnair's Vice President Jenni Suomela emphasizes the aim to provide value and improved experiences for travelers. Damian Hickey of Travelport highlights the commitment to retail-ready content for agencies, ensuring efficient travel retailing.

🛫 AXA Hong Kong & Macau partners with Trip.com to launch Trip.com Travel Smart, offering three insurance plans covering medical expenses up to HKD 1.5 million, personal liability up to HKD 2 million, along with baggage, delays, and cancellations. Policies are manageable via AXA’s Emma app, enhancing travellers’ peace of mind and providing a seamless experience. Customers can earn Trip Coins for purchases on the Trip.com platform.