Tag: travel

Radisson’s Creator Hub Innovates Travel Storytelling

Having picked up the Best Digital Transformation (Over 5,000 Employees) Award at last week’s International Customer Experience Awards, Radisson Hotels is showing the way forward when it comes to the hugely valuable influencer travel market. Creator Hub is a new collaboration...

City Cruises Charts a Smoother Digital Journey with Medallia

City Cruises, part of Hornblower Group, has partnered with Medallia to improve how guests book and experience its dining and sightseeing cruises. The collaboration focuses on reducing friction across digital touchpoints by capturing real-time feedback and analytics from users online. The...

Bot Voyage! How Bad Bots Are Hijacking the Travel Industry

Imagine planning your dream vacation, only to find prices have mysteriously skyrocketed, flights are suddenly unavailable, and the booking site keeps stalling. The thing is, there’s more to these frustrations than just high demand. Behind the scenes, a silent digital...

Hotel Staff and Travel Agents Just Got AI Teammates, Meet Talkdesk Experience Clouds 

Talkdesk is stepping up to meet the chaos and complexity of modern travel and hospitality by launching two industry-specific solutions: Talkdesk Travel Experience Cloud and Talkdesk Hospitality Experience Cloud. These new platforms are designed to tackle some of the most...

Pay to Stay Behind? Inside Wizz Air’s Unusual Customer Strategy

As the summer travel season heats up and pressure mounts on airlines, Wizz Air, one of Europe’s largest low-cost carriers, is testing a new strategy to manage overbooked flights—by asking passengers to volunteer before they even reach the airport. Passengers booking...

Zillennials Have Arrived—And They’re Booking Cruises

Generational shifts are reshaping how Americans travel—and what they expect from travel loyalty programs. According to a new report by arrivia, based on a survey of U.S. adults who travelled in the past year, younger travellers are rewriting the rules...

Grammarly’s $1B bet, AI surveillance risks, and travel retail’s digital lift

Grammarly secures $1B in revenue-linked deal to fuel growth Grammarly has secured a $1 billion nondilutive investment from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund to bolster sales and marketing while preserving its $13B valuation. Unlike traditional equity funding, this deal ties repayments...

Foodies, fans, and first-class flyers: Mastercard reveals what’s fuelling global travel in 2025

The Mastercard Economics Institute (MEI) has unveiled its Travel Trends 2025 report, providing a deep dive into the forces shaping global tourism through the lens of aggregated consumer spending data. While macroeconomic factors like exchange rates and geopolitics still influence...

Corporate travel plans for 2025 to drop worldwide

The days of back-to-back business trips may be numbered, at least for now. New figures from the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) reveal a clear slowdown in motion, most likely influenced by recent U.S. government measures. Nearly a third of global...

HBX Group leverages AI to turbocharge customer experience

It was a nine-year journey to get HBX Group to its IPO in February of this year. The €725 million raised from the public offering is expected to go towards paying down debt and accelerating the next phase of growth...