COMMERCIAL TRAVEL
VacationRenter | May 26, 2022
VacationRenter, the fastest-growing vacation rental search engine, has enhanced its global inventory expansion. It offers full site translations, personalized travel inspiration and traveler resources, and more.
"Researching and booking vacation rentals can be frustrating and time-consuming. Our platform helps make the experience easier, We are always working on making our site better. Our latest upgrades focus on improving the user experience for our international customers, as well as giving all customers more information and tools to quickly find the perfect rental."
-CEO Heath Hammett
An overview of the platform upgrades:
Customer-Forward Improvements
These improvements include streamlining the process of finding the perfect vacation rental. It delivers priority updates, price alerts, personalized travel inspiration, upgraded search and usability, and a user-friendly design.
New and Expanded Inventory
In partnership with Interhome, VacationRenter now offers more than 30, 000 vacation rentals in the U.S and Europe. These rental homes and apartments add to the convenience in travel destinations such as Myrtle Beach, SC, and Madrid, Spain. VacationRenter has also expanded its partnership with Plum Guide. As a result, customers can easily research Plum Guide’s high-quality homes across Europe and the U.S.
Internationalization
VacationRenter has launched full site translations in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish and German for global travelers. Additionally, it has also enhanced key information for almost 6, 000 locations across the globe, including FAQs and details on must-see attractions.
Up-to-Date Traveler Resources
The new Traveler Resource Center gives travelers the correct destination and even property-specific information. It also includes COVID-related restrictions and guidelines. Apart from this, the new VacationRenter’s Travel Trends pages display booking trends and average nightly prices. This data gives insight into traveler behaviors for the ones in the travel industry, such as homeowners, property managers and travel reporters.
VacationRenter is bracing up for travel to make a comeback for both domestic and international U.S travelers, who are seven times more likely to resume travel at home.
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TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY,HOSPITALITY TRENDS
Sabre Corporation and Plug and Play | July 07, 2022
Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR), a leading software and technology company powering the global travel industry, announced its partnership with Plug and Play's Travel & Hospitality program headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Plug and Play is a global innovation platform that brings together the best startups with the world's largest corporations. Through this partnership, Sabre will enhance its visibility and gain early access to the global startup community.
"Over the past years, we have accelerated our focus on innovation, both internally and together with strong partners, Our collaboration with Plug and Play is another milestone on this journey and we are very excited to engage with their world-class community of forward-thinking, driven entrepreneurs to shape the future of travel."
-Sundar Narasimhan, President Sabre Labs & Product Strategy.
Plug and Play's Travel & Hospitality program launched in 2016 and has since expanded to six locations around the world. Since its inception, the Travel program has accelerated over 250 startups and worked with some of the most innovative corporations in the industry. With this partnership, Plug and Play's goal is to complement Sabre's innovation roadmap through vetted introductions to promising travel technologies that will seek to ultimately translate to a faster recovery for the industry while improving the traveler's overall journey.
"When it comes to insights regarding the entire travel ecosystem, Sabre has demonstrated their commitment to diverse and in-depth products that touch many of our travel and hospitality partners and their customers," Sabre's commitment to digital transformation is exemplified by the innovative work coming out of Sabre Labs, their support in the startup community as well as their work with forward-thinking partners both inside and outside of travel. This partnership came into fruition at a perfect inflection point for the travel industry's recovery."
-Saeed Amidi, CEO & Founder, Plug and Play.
About Plug and Play
Plug and Play is the leading innovation platform, connecting startups, corporations, venture capital firms, universities, and government agencies. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, we're present in 35+ locations across five continents. We offer corporate innovation programs and help our corporate partners in every stage of their innovation journey, from education to execution. We also organize startup acceleration programs and have built an in-house VC to drive innovation across multiple industries where we've invested in hundreds of successful companies including Dropbox, Guardant Health, Honey, Lending Club, N26, PayPal, and Rappi. For more information, visit https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/
About Sabre Corporation
Sabre Corporation is a leading software and technology company that powers the global travel industry, serving a wide range of travel companies including airlines, hoteliers, travel agencies and other suppliers. The company provides retailing, distribution and fulfilment solutions that help its customers operate more efficiently, drive revenue and offer personalized traveller experiences. Through its leading travel marketplace, Sabre connects travel suppliers with buyers from around the globe. Sabre's technology platform manages more than $260B worth of global travel spend annually. Headquartered in Southlake, Texas, USA, Sabre serves customers in more than 160 countries around the world. For more information visit www.sabre.com.
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TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY
Nuvei Corporation | May 27, 2022
On May 26, Nuvei Corporation announced its partnership with Scott Dunn, an award-winning luxury tour operator. Nuvei will provide Scott Dunn with a comprehensive global payment solution, including smart routing and payments orchestration. Nuvei accelerates businesses through modular, flexible and scalable tech solutions so that leading companies can adapt next-gen payments, offer various payout options and benefit from banking, risk and fraud management services and card issuing.
Post-pandemic the travel industry is expected to take off. According to Statista’s Digital Market Outlook Report, travel and tourism market revenue is predicted to reach the U.S $ 637 billion in 2022.
“The entire digital travel experience should be seamless from the moment a holiday is booked to getting to your destination. Payments are an integral part of that for both holidaymakers and businesses as global travel revenues grow, The Nuvei team’s extensive knowledge of our industry, coupled with a strong product stack and global reach, were instrumental in our selection process. With Nuvei as our payment provider, we are well positioned to grow further in key markets globally.”
-Scott Dunn’s Chief Financial Officer Mark Woodall.
Commenting on the partnership said: As a business that believes in exceptional experience, innovation and service, we’re delighted to partner with Scott Dunn
“Our global acquiring and payments gateway solutions offer scalability; while our smart routing engine will help define, configure and manage transactional routing in real time. Partnering with Scott Dunn will further position Nuvei as the payments partner of choice for the travel and mobility industry,”
-Nuvei Chair and CEO Phil Fayer
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