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Market moves, funding and hiring signals from across travel and hospitality tech.
TravelTech NewsTravel Tech News — Amadeus reaches for IDEMIA at €1.2bn
Amadeus moves on travel biometrics, Amex GBT goes private in a $6.3bn take-out and Peek bulks up on attractions ticketing. Duetto buys FLYR Hospitality, Hilton fills its CTO chair and conversational…
TravelTech NewsTravel Tech News — Choice Hotels buys Harvest Hosts for $130m
Choice Hotels pushes into RV travel, CPP Investments and the Zerodha founders back Indian hospitality platforms and the week's product news runs heavily to AI — from Accor's ALL Concierge to native…
TravelTech NewsTravel Tech News — Expedia buys Layla to bolster AI trip planning
Expedia adds an AI trip planner to its stack, hotel-ops startups pull in fresh seed money, agentic booking keeps chipping at paid distribution and a run of new technology chiefs takes their seats.
TravelTech NewsTravel Tech News — ChatGPT arrives at the hotel booking desk
Hotel brands are pushing bookings into ChatGPT this week, Sabre wires generative AI into SynXis, HITEC empties its launch pipeline and a run of C-suite chairs change hands from BCD to Choice.
TravelTech NewsTravel Tech News — Airbnb swaps its business chief as leadership chairs shuffle
Airbnb hands its business remit to an ex-Tripadvisor hand, BCD Travel maps out a two-year succession plan and the AI layer keeps creeping into distribution — with Aven wiring MCP across SynXis and…
TravelTech NewsTravel Tech News — Expedia thins its tech bench in AI reset
Expedia clears eight senior product and technology leaders in an AI-driven reorganisation, the major hotel brands all ship conversational search on the same week, Mews takes its POS across the…
TravelTech NewsTravel Tech News — Mews bolts RMS and housekeeping onto the stack
Mews goes shopping twice in one week, Expedia thins out its VP ranks in an AI reorg and the major chains all reach for conversational search at once. Plus IBS adds a CRS/PMS/RMS layer, a white-label…
TravelTech NewsTravel Tech News — Google's agentic booking test reaches the GDS layer
Google's agentic hotel booking test lands at the GDS layer with Amadeus and Sabre in tow, Expedia's AI reorganisation costs eight senior leaders their seats, a $300m experience fund opens up and a…
TravelTech NewsTravel Tech News — Sabre ships SynXis Property Hub as PMS race heats up
Sabre releases its cloud-native PMS, Mews and SiteMinder tie up on distribution, Faye lands a $50m Series C and the executive chairs keep turning at Expedia, Sabre and Choice.
TravelTech NewsTravel Tech News — Expedia buys Layla as conversational booking heats up
Expedia adds an AI-native planner to its stack, IHG and Radisson push conversation-led search into the mainstream, and a cluster of CTO and board moves reshapes the leadership map at Choice,…
TravelTech NewsTravel Tech News — Expedia gives AI and data a seat at the top table
Expedia elevates AI and data to the C-suite, a run of CTO chairs change hands across hospitality, Oracle threads an assistant through OPERA Cloud and Cendyn starts watching how hotels show up inside…
TravelTech NewsWhat seven US travel companies pay software engineers — and what the filings don't show
PhocusWire reported the two-tier split in US travel tech engineering pay. Here is the employer-level data behind it, the threshold that decided who appears and what filing data cannot show.