DESTINATION AND TOURISM
Tambourine | June 01, 2022
Award-winning digital marketing firm Tambourine is Hyatt’s choice for its digital marketing needs. Tambourine is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale and serves hotels, resorts, and tourism destinations worldwide. It is set to help Hyatt drive demand, revenue and brand awareness. It will provide three marketing programs — paid media, SEO, and social media marketing, for Hyatt Hotels and Resorts in the Americas.
"We selected Tambourine because of the firm's excellent branded hotel marketing expertise, outstanding design, and commitment to service, Tambourine's footprint in Latin America makes them a high-caliber, strategic partner. We trust that these three programs can greatly benefit our hotels and resorts in the Americas."
-Meghann Bell, Vice President of Field Marketing, Hyatt.
Hyatt is a fantastic collaborator," said Jeff Spaccio, SVP Enterprise & Brands, Tambourine. "We are honored to provide marketing support and complement the amazing work Hyatt is already doing on behalf of their properties.
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TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY,BUSINESS TRAVEL
Sabre Corporation | June 28, 2022
Sabre Corporation, a leading provider of software and technology that powers the global travel industry, has completed the initial phase of its rollout of SynXis Retail Studio, which is designed to revolutionize the future of hotel retailing and deliver the personalized travel experience.
The latest solution added to the SynXis platform, SynXis Retail Studio, enables hoteliers to diversify into retailing goods, services, experiences, merchandise, and more by attribute at the point of distribution. This capability to sell almost anything creates more opportunities to generate additional revenue streams.
SynXis Retail Studio enables hoteliers to provide a customized guest experience by expanding customer options. As a result, hoteliers can concentrate on driving incremental revenue by expanding retailing options while creating a memorable, brand-specific guest experience.
"SynXis Retail Studio is a game-changer, With the development of this revolutionary technology, we seek to re-define the way hoteliers do business and place a greater focus on guest experience. At Sabre, we have been intensively focused on powering a wide array of integrated, efficient, and easy-to-use solutions that help unlock exceptional value and revenue for hoteliers. The results that we have seen through the pilot phase of SynXis Retail Studio show our success in achieving this and mark an important step towards our vision of truly personalized travel."
-Scott Wilson, President, Sabre Hospitality
To succeed in the competitive industry that we face today, it is crucial that hoteliers have the right technology in place to meet customers' expectations," said Tom Winrow, VP Product Management, Sabre Hospitality. "With SynXis Retail Studio, hoteliers can sell virtually anything. The right combination of ancillaries and services will better position hoteliers to reinforce their brand proposition during the guest booking. SynXis Retail Studio has already supported double-digit revenue increases for our pilot properties, and we are excited to see the benefits for the wider industry as we move beyond the pilot phase.
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AIRLINES AND AIRPORTS
OAG | July 20, 2022
OAG, the world’s leading provider of travel data and insight, announces the release of Flight Status Data into its Flight Info Direct solution, delivering instant access to the full lifecycle of a flight. Powered by its Snowflake-enabled data platform OAG Metis, Flight Info Direct currently provides instant access to OAG’s high-value database, including Global Airline Schedules Data, Emissions Data, and Connections Data. Starting today, the release of Flight Status Data will give customers a seamless view of a flight – from its planned schedule to when it lands at its destination.
As demand for high-value insights and operational data soars, being able to view flight data as one by accessing, integrating and blending it into other sources will deliver valuable business benefits and efficiencies to customers, such as removing the silos of legacy systems, delivering end-to-end journey data, and rectifying reconciliation and quality issues.
“Our accelerated solutions and partnerships with leading technology platforms Snowflake and Microsoft Azure make us the perfect partner to help our customers rise above a complex legacy technology landscape, The scale of data-driven opportunities across the entire travel ecosystem – search and booking, hospitality, payments and retail, and more – is enormous. Our versatile, cloud-based data platform seamlessly connects the ecosystem together, and all in one view, to help our customers grow, streamline their operations, and work flexibly at scale.”
-Phil Callow, CEO at OAG
This recent release of data onto the platform is the latest evolution of OAG’s product-led growth journey to connect ecosystems and markets with data that empowers better decision-making and innovation.
Callow adds, We are moving the industry forward by providing frictionless access to high-quality travel data. Being able to view holistic flight data information with the best technology available is a sizeable shift away from the old schedules and status silos of the past.
OAG has customers across the entire travel ecosystem and is embedded in booking engines, travel and hospitality apps, airline apps, online travel agencies, metasearch, search engines, and flight tracking apps.To learn more about Flight Status Data, visit https://www.oag.com/status-direct
About OAG
OAG is the leading data platform for the global travel industry, powering the growth and innovation of the air travel ecosystem since 1929. Headquartered in the UK, OAG has operations in the USA, Singapore, Japan, China and Lithuania., Visit: www.oag.com and follow us on Twitter @OAG Aviation.
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