Travel Technology News

Kitmytrip launches travel commerce platform with Dubai as found partner city
Travel tech innovator kitmytrip has revealed its flagship offering, Alike.io, travel commerce platform that offers personal studios for travel content creators to create and publish their content and that shares booking revenue with content authors.

‘Welcome to the World’ wins first ATM tech startup competition
‘Welcome to the World’ has been named the first ever winner of the ATM Draper-Aladdin Startup Competition, which saw a selection of the region’s most innovative travel and tourism start-ups deliver pitches on the ATM Travel Tech Stage for the chance to secure up to $500,000.
Hotel start-up Mint House raises $35 million
Mint House, the New York-based start-up which offers apartment-style accommodation with hotel-like amenities to business travellers, has raised an additional $35 million in funding, bringing total investment to $80 million.

A.M.A Selections to launch luxury booking alternative to Airbnb
A.M.A Selections is launching a luxury alternative to Airbnb in an attempt to disrupt the ‘browse and book’ model.

GROUPS360 attracts $35M plots group travel platform expansion
Group travel booking platform Groups360 has raised $35 million in fresh funding. The investment was led by Zigg Capital and included Blackstone Innovations Investments and Fir Tree Partners.

Breaking Travel News investigates: Bend or break - customers push back on brand standards
Matthijs Welle, chief executive of Mews, discusses how customer demands during the pandemic are encouraging hotels to move away from rigid brand standards and think for themselves

Breaking Travel News investigates: Briggs & Riley TORQ collection
The privately-owned, global luggage brand has released new carry-on, medium and large spinner suitcases, as well as two lightweight trunks in medium and extra-large – all are ideal for travellers with the most discerning tastes

Breaking Travel News investigates: PaMu Slide
Want the comfort of true wireless stereo headphones without the indignity of the bright white AirPods broadcasting your slavish devotion to Apple? The team at PaMu have the ideal product for you, the new PaMu Slide.

BTN investigates: How can small- and medium-sized enterprises find the right travel tech provider?
George Dumitru, co-founder and chief executive of wbe.travel, here tells Breaking Travel News how small- and medium-sized hospitality providers can find the right provider to meet their travel technology needs

Finn Partners launches TravelTech alongside Brighter Group
Global marketing and communications firm, Finn Partners, has launched a dedicated travel technology group, TravelTech. Finn Partners has more than 100 people in its global technology practice, and one of the largest tourism teams in the world.

Griffin Technology launches iTrip Clip
Griffin Technology has released its latest device, the iTrip Clip, which cuts the cable between your smartphone and headphones to deliver the ultimate in wireless freedom to listen and control your music. Don’t worry if your favourite smartphone doesn’t have the headphone jack. iTrip Clip connects your favourite headphones wirelessly to your smartphone or tablet using Bluetooth 4.1.

Griffin Technology launches new premium cables
Griffin Technology has released a premium charge/sync cable, coming complete with a lightning connector. At the heart of the thoughtfully designed mobile cables is the easy-connecting reversible USB that can be plugged in regardless of the orientation. “Our new premium cable design offers a more enjoyable user experience to the cables we use every day,” explained Rick Kennedy, cables category manager at Griffin.