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Buying Business Travel | February 07, 2020

The Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) has raised concerns over the proposed acquisition of Farelogix by Sabre, saying that blocking the merger “may be the only way” of addressing competition issues. In June 2019, the CMA launched an investigation into the acquisition, which was announced in 2018, to determine whether the merger would limit competition in the airline distribution market and therefore ‘reduce innovation’ in the industry. The watchdog later slammed Sa...

Travel Daily Media | January 23, 2020

Travel and aviation tech-sperts Sabre alongside hospitality powerhouse Accor, the leading software and technology company powering the global travel industry, announced today they will work together on the creation of the first unified central reservation (CR) and property management (PM) platform for the hospitality industry. The potential of the new full-service property management tool will see the Sabre enrich its existing central reservation and limited-service property management systems. ...

COMMERCIAL TRAVEL

eDreams ODIGEO | February 03, 2022

eDreams ODIGEO, Europe's largest online travel company, the second largest in terms of flights globally and one of the largest European e-commerce businesses announced that they have signed a New Distribution Capability (NDC) agreement with British Airways and Iberia, part of IAG, one of the world's leading airlines groups. The strategic agreement involves all four of eDreams ODIGEO's leading travel agency brands (eDreams, Opodo, Travellink and GO Voyages) ...

TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY

Navisteps | December 28, 2020

Navisteps, a travel and cost the executives startup, has raised a pre-seed round of $1 million. Investment in the Singapore-based organization, which was established in 2019, has come from angel investors. Navisteps will utilize the funding to grow the business in Asia just as build up its technology. The organization plans to carry more automation to discount answering just as to track the expense of handling cost reports. The organiza...