Technology

Whether it’s an extended vacation, gap year, or volunteering, exciting times lay ahead for anyone who’s planning a trip abroad. Yet life can be pretty unpredictable, and family and friends back home may start to worry after a while.

ANA Holding will test its ‘newme’ Avatar platform at the JNTO TIC (Japan National Tourism Organization Tourist Information Center) in the heart of Tokyo.

What do an electric-powered surfboard, intelligent office lighting, and plastic-free gingerbread packaging have in common? All three are innovations by Bavarian start-ups. They can be seen, along with other featured exhibits, in "MCBW START UP".

The Inflight Food Trip, one of the world's first airline food documentary series, has been released on Amazon Prime. The documentary takes you to airlines and inflight caterers around the globe and presents how airline food is created.

Sabre Corporation and Accor announced that they intend to create the first unified central reservation (CR) and property management (PM) platform for the global hospitality industry.

Creating unique and entertaining products that are also very practical is definitely the company’s niche.

In 2019, total Wi-Fi traffic at Moscow Domodedovo Airport amounted to 256 terabytes. Domodedovo’s Internet connection does not have time or data limits. The average data consumption per user amounted to 260 MB.

Google Cloud has joined forces with Sabre Corporation — a leading software and technology provider that powers the global travel industry—to help digitally transform the traveler's experience, and co-create the future of travel.

Google Cloud announced that Lufthansa Group, the world's largest aviation group in terms of revenue, has selected Google Cloud as a strategic partner to optimize the performance of its operations.

Booking.com announced the launch of a new pilot product, CityBook, a responsive digital guide for cities that seamlessly combines inspiration, planning, navigation and experience all in one place.

American Airlines is using technology to remove one of the stresses of traveling for foreign language-speaking customers by being the first airline to introduce the Google Assistant’s interpreter mode technology in its airport lounges.

UBER confirmed the official close of the previously announced acquisition of Careem for $3.1 billion. Careem Networks FZ-LLC has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Uber, preserving its brand.

The newly introduced messaging App, ToTok, created by the UAE and downloaded by millions of users worldwide is being used by the Emirates' government "to track every conversation, movement, relationship, appointment, sound and image of those who install it on their phones", according to a New York Times investigation.

HalalBooking has closed its small Series A round, with a post-money valuation of US$52.5 million. After attracting significant interest from dozens of individual investors, $2.5 million was raised.