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🏨 Sabre Hospitality renews its agreement with Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, continuing to use the SynXis Central Reservation System for managing operations, inventory, and global distribution. The renewal enables Wyndham to maintain its guest profile integration with the Wyndham Rewards® program. Earlier this year, Sabre successfully migrated over 5,000 Wyndham properties to the SynXis Property Hub and transitioned 550 hotels in a record-breaking month, nearly a year ahead of schedule.

🌍 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.

💳 iCoupon partners with Air Partner Group Charter to launch Airport Meal Vouchers in Germany, allowing Air Partner to issue value on passengers' boarding passes instead of purchasing onboard food. Live service includes Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Düsseldorf airports. First weekend saw 80% redemption rate at Frankfurt and Keflavik. The service offers flexibility, convenience, and choice, aiming for sustainability and efficiency. It is the first implementation by Air Partner and part of iCoupon's plans to expand.

✈ 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.

🛫 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.

✈ 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.