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Upmarket stays and experience-seeking guests buoy French hotels
Strong performance despite economic headwinds
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Sabre strengthens Orchestra partnership with single API integration
Single API spans NDC, EDIFACT, LCC
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HBX rolls out Bedsonline+, new booking solution for travel advisors
Build complex, end‑to‑end trips with added value
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Payments rewards firm Valuedynamx names Emma Kisby as CEO to drive data-led, AI-powered growth
Expands its international reach under new leadership
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Demand for European travel increased this summer, despite pricing pressure and geopolitical disruption
Overall demand for travel remained stable as ADR increased 4-6% year-on-year across Europe
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Global travel agents embrace AI while demanding rate parity, finds Amadeus research
Reveals growing engagement with distribution platforms, and evolving priorities, sustainability and pricing
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While AI accelerates, people remain central says many
AI accelerates, human touch remains central
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Robots take on visitor service at China’s Chimelong Spaceship Park
Over 300 robots join park operations
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Cloudbeds goes beyond normal distribution opportunities for hoteliers with new expanded Klook partnership
Hoteliers get additional opportunity to reach travellers beyond traditional accommodation-only booking environments
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Thomas Cook goes beyond current offering, adds ancillaries
Available in the UK first
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SiteMinder launches AI engine to optimise hotel pricing and distribution
It will address pricing and distribution layers as price optimisation is 'insufficient'
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Sabre opens Sponsored Listings to Koddi’s travel media platform
Move makes its 'easier' for suppliers to incorporate the channel into wider media strategies
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Accor launches ALL Concierge, its conversational travel companion
End-to-end AI concierge rolls out
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HBX Group sets eyes firmly on luxury travel with Virtuoso partnership expansion
Virtuoso member agencies now have worldwide access to Bedsonline's accommodation, mobility and experiences portfolio
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New data from lastminute.com finds travellers using AI for 'holiday maxxing'
Brits track behind European country travellers' usage
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Sabre says its MCP will replace the NDC standard
Sabre touts AI-led travel distribution savings
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Amex GBT appoints Michael Esquibel as chief technology officer
Appointment strengthens AI and tech strategy
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CellPoint launches AI-decision platform under new leadership
Firm also secured £25.4 million (US $34M) in investment
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Holibob launches Software Development Kit to cut integration times to days
'For most brands, it was never demand that was missing. It was the build'
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Perk picks Katanox for hotel payments and to faciliate better corporate hotel distribution
Move is one step close to making hotel bookings 'end to end'