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Aug 3Mon
  1. BCD Travel News Hub

    BCD expands content access via Tripsource, adds United direct connect

    BCD Travel announced advancements in its Tripsource platform to expand travel content access, including a new direct connect agreement with United Airlines. This reinforces BCD's 'Open by Design' approach, supporting policy compliance, traveler safety, and program integrity. The direct connect will be available via online and offline channels, leveraging NDC capabilities. BCD has supported direct connections since 2019 and now has 22 airlines live in its NDC ecosystem.

  3. MakeMyTrip Press Releases

    MakeMyTrip Q1 FY27 results: Gross bookings up 19.9% YoY

    MakeMyTrip reported Q1 FY27 results with gross bookings up 19.9% YoY to approximately $2.9 billion, and revenue up 16.1%. Despite external headwinds, adjusted margins grew double digits across segments. The company launched Myra 2.0, an AI assistant handling over 85,000 daily conversations and resolving over 50% of post-booking queries.

Aug 2Sun
  1. BCD Travel RSS

    BCD Launches Tripsource Insights to Unify Travel, Payment, and Risk Data

    BCD Travel launched Tripsource Insights this summer as a core capability within the Tripsource platform, integrating data from BCD systems and supplier sources into one interface. It provides corporate travel and finance leaders with a unified, real-time view of travel spend, payment activity, and traveler risk. Using AI and NLP, the platform supports daily program management, helping optimize spend, monitor performance, and ensure compliance.

Aug 1Sat
  1. Hospitality Technology

    Engine Acquires Options Travel to Build AI-Native Online Booking Tool

    Business travel and spend management platform Engine acquired Options Travel, a full-service TMC with over 30 years of experience, using its daily operations as a laboratory to build an AI-native Online Booking Tool (OBT). The tool consolidates booking, payments, reporting, customer management, and duty of care into a single dashboard, reducing agent booking times from an industry average of nearly 15 minutes to 2.5 minutes, with plans to license it to TMCs globally.

  2. PhocusWire All News

    Engine Acquires Options Travel to Build Modern OBT

    Travel and spend management platform Engine acquired TMC Options Travel, with terms not disclosed. Engine will use Options Travel's operations to develop an AI-native online booking tool (OBT) aimed at improving booking speed, personalization, and automated disruption handling. Options Travel will continue to operate independently, with its employees joining Engine.

Jul 31Fri
  1. PhocusWire All News

    Expedia Acquires AI Travel Planning App Layla

    Expedia Group has acquired AI travel planning and booking app Layla for an undisclosed amount. The move accelerates its AI strategy by combining Layla's planning and personalization capabilities with Expedia's supply, scale, and technology. Layla was founded in 2023 and attracted €3 million in seed funding with backers including Lastminute.com founder Brent Hoberman. Expedia unveiled a ChatGPT app in November 2025.

  3. Expedia Group Newsroom

    Expedia Group acquires Layla to accelerate AI trip planning and booking

    Expedia Group has acquired Layla, an AI-native trip planning and booking platform, to accelerate its AI strategy. Layla, founded in 2023 and based in Berlin, helps travelers discover destinations, create personalized itineraries, and plan complete trips through a conversational travel agent. The acquisition combines Layla's advanced planning and personalization capabilities with Expedia Group's global supply, first-party traveler insights, marketplace scale, and booking technology, aiming to create richer, more personalized travel experiences and move travelers seamlessly from inspiration to booking.

  4. PhocusWire All News

    BCD Travel Invests in Corporate Travel AI Platform Amgine

    BCD Travel has made a strategic investment in Amgine, an AI automation platform for corporate travel. The investment amount was not disclosed. The companies have an existing partnership, confirmed in July 2025. Amgine provides tools for TMCs and corporate travel departments to turn travel requests from email, Slack, WhatsApp, and group air into completed bookings. BCD said the platform has been used for group-air management, email automation, and other AI initiatives.

Jul 30Thu
  1. BCD Travel News Hub

    BCD Travel Invests in AI Firm AMGINE to Accelerate Strategy

    BCD Travel announced a strategic investment in AMGINE, a corporate travel AI automation platform, to accelerate AI-powered solutions for better traveler experience and service delivery. The expanded partnership covers group air management, email automation, and more. BCD's AI strategy includes building AI into Tripsource, integrating specialized AI from partners like AMGINE, and enabling access to third-party AI tools.

  2. PhocusWire All News

    HBX Group CEO Nicolas Huss to Retire

    HBX Group CEO Nicolas Huss announced his retirement effective September 30, with current CFO Brendan Brennan to become interim CEO on October 1. The company also issued a Q3 trading update: TTV rose 12% to €2.4 billion, revenue fell 3% to €177 million, and FY guidance was raised.

Jul 29Wed
  1. Expedia Group Newsroom

    Quality Pays: New Vrbo Research Finds Travelers Will Spend More on Vacation Rentals They Trust

    Vrbo released the Built to Stay Report, surveying over 1,700 travelers across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, UK, France, Germany, and Australia. The study found that 86% of travelers would pay more for a higher-quality listing, and 81% would pay more for a property with strong trust signals. Cleanliness, reliable amenities, and quick host response are key quality signals, while verified reviews and overall scores are important trust signals.

Jul 27Mon
  1. PhocusWire All News

    TravelAI acquires Sonder brand, relaunches Sonder.com

    Canada-based TravelAI has acquired the Sonder brand and relaunched Sonder.com. The acquisition includes Sonder's trademarks and domain names, not its operating businesses, properties, leases, inventory or staff. Terms were not disclosed. Previously, Sonder's parent company announced wind down in November 2025 and filed for Chapter 7 liquidation. TravelAI launched the new Sonder.com as a curated guide to urban stays, featuring properties in New York, London, Barcelona and more.

  2. PhocusWire All News

    Startup Waltru aims to replace generic travel itineraries

    Waltru is a Barcelona-based startup offering a personalized travel companion that generates itineraries based on traveler preferences and pace, and narrates each place's story via audio. Currently in beta, it plans to expand to Madrid, Paris, Rome and London. The business model is pay-per-trip via in-app purchases, with B2B2C distribution planned. The founding team consists of three Argentines with software and travel backgrounds.

  3. Business Travel News

    Opinion: Travel's AI Investment Faces Data Fragmentation Challenge

    Gee Mann, founder of TravlrID, argues that the travel industry is investing billions in AI but is building on a broken data foundation, causing AI agents to underperform. Traveler data is fragmented across multiple systems without a unified, accurate profile, leading to irrelevant recommendations and policy violations. The article calls for addressing data governance and ownership, otherwise AI will exacerbate fragmentation.

Jul 25Sat
  1. Trip.com Group News Releases

    Trip.com Group Accepts Administrative Penalty from China's SAMR

    Trip.com Group announced it has received an administrative penalty decision from the State Administration for Market Regulation of China and sincerely accepts it, pledging to adopt rectification measures in accordance with laws. The company will strengthen governance mechanisms and contribute to sustainable development of the travel industry. Management will hold a conference call on July 27 to discuss.

Jul 24Fri
  1. PhocusWire All News

    Agoda CPO Ittai Chorev on the push into real-time travel updates, AI search

    Agoda CPO Ittai Chorev discussed new features: real-time flight tracking, AI-powered hotel browsing, and AI tools. Flight updates average 2-3 notifications per booking, powered by established aviation data sources. On the hotel side, AI pairs images with relevant reviews and stays current with property changes. The multi-product booking engine allows booking hotels, flights, and activities in a single transaction, and language support has expanded by five languages.

  2. PhocusWire All News

    Travel tech news briefs: American Airlines, Spotnana, Hostaway and more

    This week's travel tech briefs include: American Airlines adds Venmo and expands digital disruption tools; Spotnana introduces multiagent AI architecture; Travelport signs distribution deals with Air Zimbabwe and Aeroitalia; BCD Travel launches next-gen Tripsource; Engine Groups becomes free; Hostaway appoints executives; Wego partners with Valu for BNPL; SAS deploys Amadeus AI pricing.

Jul 23Thu
  1. BCD Travel RSS

    BCD launches next-generation TripSource travel platform

    BCD Travel has launched the next generation of Tripsource, a travel and expense platform built on an 'Open by Design' architecture, linking travel content, data, AI, and third-party technologies. The platform integrates booking, servicing, and intelligence, with a unified configuration layer and BCD Marketplace, supporting GDS, NDC, direct connects, and more. It will be showcased at GBTA.

Jul 22Wed
  1. PhocusWire All News

    Loveholidays expands in packaged travel, AI chatbot saves costs

    Loveholidays has expanded to eight markets, holding about 15% of the UK packaged travel market (up from 5% in 2019). Package penetration grew from 61% to 69%, and dynamic packaging rose from 2% in 2009 to about 25% now. AI chatbot Sandy handles 60% of chats and 20% of calls, saving about £4 million annually. The company uses a three-pronged AI strategy: revenue growth, customer experience, and operational efficiency.

  2. BCD Travel News Hub

    BCD reimagines the traveler experience

    BCD Travel has relaunched its award-winning traveler experience with a fully redesigned Tripsource mobile app and website, delivering a more intuitive and connected user experience. The new experience aims to increase traveler adoption, improve compliance, and generate savings, available globally in 11 languages across over 170 markets.

  3. BCD Travel News Hub

    BCD Travel launches next generation of Tripsource

    BCD Travel announced the launch of its next-generation Tripsource travel and expense platform, built on an Open by Design architecture. It creates a connected ecosystem integrating content, data, AI, and third-party technologies, with a unified configuration layer, access to The BCD Marketplace with 70+ partners, and a comprehensive content ecosystem including GDS, NDC, and direct connects.

  5. PhocusWire All News

    Outdoor experiences platform Checkyeti acquires Manawa

    Outdoor activities booking platform Checkyeti has acquired Alentour SAS, parent of Manawa, for an undisclosed amount. This marks consolidation in Europe's outdoor experiences industry. Checkyeti, founded in 2014, focuses on winter and summer activities across Europe; Manawa has a strong position in France and other European markets. The deal was supported by Banque des Territoires, now a shareholder. Together they aim to build Europe's leading outdoor experiences platform.

Jul 21Tue
  1. PhocusWire All News

    30 Sundays raises $6.7M Series A for AI travel planning

    AI-powered vacation planning and booking tool 30 Sundays raised $6.7 million in Series A, bringing total funding to $7.5 million. Led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with existing investors Info Edge Ventures and Eximius Ventures increasing stakes. India-based, it offers video itineraries and conversational interface, with annualized gross booking value over $20 million from four destinations. Funds will boost product, tech, AI teams, marketing, and expand to new geographies and family segments.

Jul 20Mon
Jul 18Sat
Jul 17Fri
  3. PhocusWire All News

    Fora raises $60M to scale AI assistant Via

    Fora, a technology platform for travel advisors, has closed a $60 million Series D round, valuing the company at $1 billion. The funding will scale its AI assistant Via, which helps advisors with destination research, supplier info, itineraries, and proposal generation. Advisors have booked over $3 billion in travel since launch in 2021.

Jul 16Thu
  3. BCD Travel RSS

    BCD Travel Launches HR Solutions

    BCD Travel has introduced travel solutions for HR teams, aiming to provide a consistent employee travel experience, simplify booking, offer reliable support, and help meet duty of care. The solution supports travel management for employees, guests, and executives, and integrates with expense management to reduce HR workload.

  4. BCD Travel News Hub

    GetGoing expands platform capabilities for SMB travel and expense management

    GetGoing, BCD's travel and expense management platform for SMBs, announced expanded capabilities and growth across North America and Europe. Enhancements include NDC airline content, expanded hotel inventory, and direct rail connections with Deutsche Bahn, SNCF, and UK rail providers, enabling in-platform booking. The platform can be implemented in under two hours and supports guest and non-employee bookings, leveraging BCD's global buying power and localized service.

Jul 14Tue
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