TOM.travel

Buying Business Travel | February 05, 2020

BCD Travel has acquired the business travel and meetings and events activities of its long-time Milan-based Italian partner Ventura Spa. As a result of the purchase, Ventura Spa will operate as a newly-formed company called BCD Travel Italy, which will offer corporate travel, meetings and events and travel consolidation services. Founded in 1977, Ventura Spa became a BCD partner in 2006. With annual sales of around US$400 million and 380 staff, the new company will maintain its offices in Milan,...

Destination and Tourism, Commercial Travel

KAYAK | January 27, 2023

KAYAK, the leading search engine for travel, recently announced that it has partnered with Affirm, a payment network, to make its payment operations flexible and to empower its travelers in the United States. According to KAYAK search data, flight prices are rising by about 40% per year. Despite increased flight prices, travelers are still searching for flight bookings in 2023. With Affirm, KAYAK is making it easier for travelers to plan and pay for their trips this year. Now, a...

Hospitality Trends

Optii Solutions | May 02, 2022

Optii Solutions announced a two-way integration with Maestro PMS. Optii Solutions is the leading optimization technology for hotel operations. Maestro PMS is the trusted and proven cloud or on-premise browser-based PMS solution for independent hotel and resort groups. The bidirectional link will help existing Maestro users to optimize their housekeeping and maintain dynamic alignment between the front and back of the house in hospitality operations. This two-way interface will giv...

Travel Technology

URVENUE | September 17, 2022

Hapi, the hospitality industry's leading platform for fast and cost-effective connectivity between technology systems, has announced an integration with UrVenue, a unique non-room inventory booking engine and operations platform for hotels. Through the integration, UrVenue can push and pull data from the industry's leading Property Management Systems by writing to a single Hapi API. As more consumers look to book all parts of their travel experience online, hotel operators...