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DerbySoft Partners with CTM to Deliver Smarter Hotel Connectivity for Business Travelers
DerbySoft, a global leader in high-performance connectivity and distribution solutions for the travel industry, partnered with Corporate Travel Management (CTM) earlier this year to power real-time hotel connectivity within CTM’s Sleep Space platform, enhancing the corporate hotel booking and post-booking experience. At the center of this collaboration is the integration of CTM’s Sleep Space hotel commerce platform with DerbySoft’s Business Travel Solutions, delivering live access to rates, availability, and content from major global hotel brands. This connection significantly improves data quality, personalization, and booking efficiency for CTM clients and hotel partners alike.
Top UK university teams win Dida’s ‘Future of Travel Innovation’ Challenge at the Shangri-La, London
Dida, a global AI-first travel technology group, has announced the winners of its inaugural Future of Travel Innovation Challenge, held at the iconic Shangri-La Hotel in The Shard, London in partnership with Headstart Global. The competition brought together the brightest student innovators from leading UK universities to reimagine the future of global travel through technology, creativity, and sustainability. The nine finalist teams pitched their groundbreaking ideas live to a panel of judges from Dida’s global executive leadership and innovation partners.
China’s leading online travel platform, Alibaba-owned Fliggy, prepares for ‘omni-intelligent travel
Chinese online travel platform Fliggy – the travel division of Alibaba Group – is leading the way as the first Chinese online travel player to adopt a multi-agent approach to building AI-powered products in order to prepare for the shift from ‘online travel agencies’ to ‘omni-intelligent travel agents’. To deliver this vision for customers everywhere, Fliggy has consistently launched new AI-powered products throughout the year, in both consumer-facing and B2B scenarios — with all products powered by multiple collaborating AI agents.
TOURISE announces USD 113BN in portfolio investments to accelerate the future of tourism
TOURISE, the bold global platform shaping a new horizon for tourism, announced today that it has catalyzed investment portfolios totaling USD 113BN at the inaugural TOURISE Summit in Riyadh. The milestone reflects TOURISE’s mission to unlock high‑value deal flow by convening public and private sector leaders across tourism, technology, investment, and sustainability to set a shared roadmap for the next 50 years of global tourism
Charting a Path for AI-Powered Tourism: Innovation Takes Center Stage at UNTGA Riyadh 2025
Tourism is entering a new era—one defined not only by destinations but by data, intelligence, and human connection enhanced through technology. This transformation takes the global spotlight in Riyadh, as the 26th UN Tourism General Assembly (UNTGA 2025) convenes under the forward-looking theme, “AI-Powered Tourism: Redefining the Future.”
RateGain Completes Acquisition of Sojern to Power the Next Phase of AI-Powered Growth
RateGain Travel Technologies Limited, a global provider of AI-powered SaaS solutions for the hospitality and travel industry, today announced the completion of its acquisition of Sojern, the leading AI-powered marketing platform built for hospitality.
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WTM London’s tech audience agree that AI is good for travel (with caveats)
Artificial intelligence is a net positive for travel, according to a show-of-hands after a lively debate which rounded off the Technology Summit at this year’s WTM London. The role of AI in travel was debated by two teams of three. Those agreeing with the proposition – AI is the enemy of travel – were led by Stephen Joyce from Protect Group, with the dissenters led by Christian Watts of Magpie Travel.
Inclusion, AI and Sustainability take centre stage on day two of WTM London 2025
The second day of World Travel Market London 2025 welcomed the main sessions of this year’s DEAI Summit. It also saw more discussions on AI, sustainability and marketing and touched on how humour can be used to sell travel.
Trip.com Group to Showcase new AI Booking Tool at WTM 2025
Trip.com Group, a leading global travel service provider, returns to World Travel Market (WTM) in 2025 with a renewed focus on innovation, local relevance and collaborative growth.
WTM London 2025 unveils Technology Summit agenda with focus on AI, data and airlines
WTM London, the world’s most influential travel event, organised by RX, is framing this year’s Technology Summit around the critical role that technology can play supporting sellers and suppliers during the current period of disruption and emerging new challenges.