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Passporter, technological company of the tourist sector, has closed its second one round of financing with 600,000 euros that will serve to consolidate the business in Spain as well as boost its entry into the United States. The company identifies three priority areas to which it will allocate capital and effort: technological innovation, equipment expansion […]
Ibiza and Menorca occupy the seventh and ninth places in the national ranking, according to the travel website The island of Mallorca occupies the ninth place in the list of the 10 best destinations in Europe and the second place at the national level, according to the preferences of travelers of the travel website TripAdvisor, […]
Google has added to its hotel search engine through its mobile application the possibility to search and also book vacation apartments from several pages such as Hotels.com, Expedia and Tripadvisor. The Google app already had an own hotel search engine, with which you can search for hotels in any city, select the desired date, the […]
The corporate travel management platform closed 2018 with a total volume of transactions of 25,000 million dollars (22.l46 million euros) in 2018, representing an increase of 6.1% over the previous year. The volume of sales in concept of new fundings, excluding renewals, amounted to 1,700 million dollars (1,505 million euros), driven by the growth experienced […]
Thomas Cook Group has agreed with Ionic Invest to create a joint venture for the acquisition of Biblio Globus, one of the largest tour operators in Russia, for an initial cash amount of 10 million dollars (8.8 million euros), operation subject to regulatory approvals expected to end in May. The intention of the British tour […]
41% of hotel reservations that have been made from Europe to enjoy the holidays of Holy Week between April 17 and 21 are destined for Spain, according to the tourist booking company TravelgateX that ensures that more than half of the Reservations have been made by citizens of Spanish nationality. The data shows that the […]
Thomas Cook the closing of 21 of its stores in the United Kingdom, where it employs 320 workers, as part of the program of efficiency and rationalization of its network of points of sale with which it wants to modernize its activity and adapt to the changing behavior of the traveler that each instead make […]
Thomas Cook China has signed an agreement with Hanatour Japan, owned by Hanatour Group, with the aim of creating a company a services company in destination in this market. In this way, the joint venture of the British tour operator and the Chinese conglomerate Fosun, will expand its activity to Japan. The new receptive tourism […]
Airbnb has announced an agreement to acquire the HotelTonight last-minute hotel reservations website to include these establishments in its offer, an operation for which neither party has provided the financial terms of the agreement. A valuation in 2017 made by PitchBook Data, encrypted the value of HotelTonight in 463 million dollars (more than 413 million […]
Barajas and El Prat gain popularity Singapore, Brisbane (Australia) and Zurich (Switzerland) lead the ranking of the best airports in the world, according to the study ‘Best Airports’ published by the eDreams travel agency for the eighth consecutive year in which it analyzes the opinion of more than 80,000 Travellers. As reported by the company […]