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• Google's AI adds new capabilities in travel planning

  22-09-2023 14:00 via travelweekly.com
  
  Google is doubling down on travel, enabling Bard, its generative artificial intelligence model, to offer far more ways to help users plan their trips.
  
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• Turkey's ornate Ottoman-era 'bird palaces'

  19-12-2025 14:00 via bbc.com
  
  They largely go unnoticed but are some of the city's most dazzling relics
  
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• How a single meme can jeopardise your trip

  18-12-2025 14:00 via bbc.com
  
  Here's what global travellers need to know
  
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• Riyadh Air and Huawei Sign an MoU to Advance Digital Capabilities for a New Future of Air Travel

  18-12-2025 07:41 via breakingtravelnews.com
  Riyadh Air and Huawei have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which brings together the former’s global growth vision and the latter’s technological expertise to elevate how guests discover, book and experience travel with the Kingdom’s new national carrier.
  The partners have already explored new opportunities in smart aviation and digital innovation, and this MoU marks the next significant step in the airline’s ambition to become one of the world’s most dig
  
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• The Silent Revolution: How Every Hotel Website is Becoming an Actionable Endpoint for AI

  18-12-2025 07:21 via breakingtravelnews.com
  For decades, the web has been held together by a chaotic and brittle system of custom APIs. This fragmented landscape of bespoke integrations is more than just a developer headache; it is the primary bottleneck preventing the next generation of AI from reaching its potential.How can an intelligent agent act on our behalf when it must first learn a unique, proprietary language for every business on the internet?
  
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• How a Rockette spends Christmas in New York City

  17-12-2025 14:00 via bbc.com
  
  Her picks, from the city's top hot cocoas to its most beautiful Christmas tree
  
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• UK government unveils £750,000 funding boost to inspire the next generation of aviation talent

  17-12-2025 12:08 via breakingtravelnews.com
  Young people across the UK are being encouraged to reach for the sky following a new £750,000 government funding announcement designed to inspire the next generation of aviation professionals and open up access to highly skilled careers across the sector.
  
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• hostAI reaches 5,000 properties as it scales AI-Powered direct distribution

  17-12-2025 12:05 via breakingtravelnews.com
  hostAI, an artificial intelligence–based software company specializing in direct distribution for vacation rental managers, today announced that it has surpassed 5,000 active properties on its platform, a major milestone driven by the expansion of its integrations with property management systems (PMS).
  
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• GoNexus Group and Peregrino redefine customer journey efficiency

  17-12-2025 12:04 via breakingtravelnews.com
  GoNexus Group, a leading experiences and mobility travel group, and Peregrino, a digital transformation consultancy that helps companies adopt and scale technology with measurable business impact, have announced breakthrough results after deploying their next-generation omnichannel and automation-driven service platform for six months.The performance metrics released today correspond to a 90-day continuous measurement period (August–October 2025) in which the solution operated at full scal
  
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• Experience-lead and agentic destination management emerge as key trends for 2026

  17-12-2025 12:01 via breakingtravelnews.com
  The Data Appeal Company and Mabrian, both part of Almawave Group, unveil Travel Megatrends 2026, a comprehensive look at the behaviours, motivations and spending patterns transforming tourism across Europe and beyond. The report highlights 7 major megatrends, led by the rise of experiential tourism, directly shaping destination management strategies for 2026.
  
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• United Adds New Features to Award-Winning Mobile App Like Virtual Gate, Club Recommendation Tool

  17-12-2025 07:59 via breakingtravelnews.com
  United today launched new features to its award-winning mobile app to save customers even more time and further improve the overall travel experience on the world’s largest airline*:
  
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• Tazizi announces partnership initiative supporting local UAE F&B start-ups

  17-12-2025 07:48 via breakingtravelnews.com
  Tazizi, Dubai’s innovative smart food and beverage platform has announced a new initiative focused on collaborating with local, UAE-based F&B start-up brands.This move reinforces Tazizi’s commitment to supporting homegrown businesses while expanding access to healthier, high-quality food options across the city.
  
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• Lafayette Hotels transforms operations with RMS and boosts direct bookings by 70%

  17-12-2025 07:36 via breakingtravelnews.com
  Lafayette Hotels, an independent hotel group with 26 properties across New England, has boosted efficiency and more than doubled direct online bookings since adopting RMS, a long-established property management platform built to streamline hospitality operations and elevate the guest experience.Before partnering with RMS, the group relied on six separate property management systems, three channel managers, and even paper trails, with no integration across platforms. This created inefficiencies,
  
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• The Swiss ski resort reinventing winter

  16-12-2025 14:00 via bbc.com
  
  The revolutionary "Uber of the Alps" is just one of many ambitious projects
  
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• His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan Launches “Al Khail Square”

  16-12-2025 08:39 via breakingtravelnews.com
  His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President of the UAE, Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the Presidential Court, and Supreme Chairman of Abu Dhabi Equestrian Club, has launched Al Khail Square, an integrated development project at Abu Dhabi Equestrian Club designed to elevate the equestrian sector and celebrate its deep-rooted heritage within a contemporary urban setting.
  
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• BTN Exclusive interview with Alex Mifsud, co-founder and CEO of embedded finance platform Weavr

  16-12-2025 08:11 via breakingtravelnews.com
  Alex Mifsud, co-founder and CEO of embedded finance platform Weavr, discusses the state of the industry, some of 2025’s key themes and predictions for 2026.Prior to founding Weavr, Alex co-founded Entropay, launching Europe’s first consumer virtual prepaid card.
  Later, Alex co-founded Ixaris, a B2B payments technology company that pioneered the use of virtual cards in the Insurance and Travel value chains.
  Some of Alex’s biggest achievements as Weavr CEO have included raising a
  
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• The store that sells your lost luggage

  15-12-2025 14:00 via bbc.com
  
  It receives more than 7,000 "new" items each day
  
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• How your lost bag ended up for sale in Alabama

  15-12-2025 14:00 via bbc.com
  
  From wedding dresses to flip-flops, it gets more than 7,000 "new" items daily
  
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• All I want for Christmas … is to escape and go travelling

  15-12-2025 08:00
  Going away for the festive season has left me with unforgettable memories, from a boat trip with Bangladeshi fishermen to exploring Castro’s Cuban hideoutI have made a point of escaping Christmas for as long as I can remember. Not escaping for Christmas, but avoiding it altogether – the stressful buildup, consumer chaos, panic buying, the enforced jollity and parties. When the first festive gifts start appearing in the shops in September, it’s time to confirm my travel plans, i
  
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• Brazil's astonishing, lagoon-filled desert

  14-12-2025 15:00 via bbc.com
  
  A barefoot journey through one of Brazil's most extraordinary landscapes
  
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• Where are all the Canadians going?

  13-12-2025 15:00 via bbc.com
  
  As many Canadians continue to boycott US travel, they're heading here instead
  
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• Our 25 favourite European travel discoveries of 2025

  13-12-2025 11:41
  The most exciting places our writers came across this year, from untouched islands in Finland to an affordable ski resort in Bulgaria and the perfect Parisian bistroOn a midsummer trip to Ireland, I saw dolphins in the Irish Sea, sunset by the Liffey, and misty views of the Galtee Mountains. The half-hour train journey to Cobh (“cove”), through Cork’s island-studded harbour, was especially lovely. As the railway crossed Lough Mahon, home to thousands of seabirds, there was wate
  
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• South African Tourism and GuideGeek launch new AI travel genius, ‘Siyanda’

  13-12-2025 06:39 via breakingtravelnews.com
  North American travelers considering a trip to South Africa can now get expert advice from “Siyanda,” a cutting-edge AI travel assistant that provides instant answers to any travel or tourism-related questions about the country. Siyanda is built on Matador Network’s industry-leading GuideGeek chat platform and is tailored to support travelers seeking authentic, vibrant, and joy-filled journeys across South Africa.
  
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• Pop art, folk festivals and grape crushing: Australian summer events worth travelling for

  12-12-2025 15:00
  From contemporary art exhibitions to eccentric festivals, regional Australia has no shortage of big events over the summer of 2025-2026Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIcons of Pop Art: Warhol and Lichtenstein, Mudgee
  Two of the 20th century’s most influential artists, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein have works on display at Mudgee Arts Precinct. Visitors can take a look at Warhol’s iconic Campbell’s soup cans up close, or get comically existential with Lichtenstein&
  
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• Can we save travel's most beloved tradition?

  12-12-2025 14:00 via bbc.com
  
  Meet the travellers who are preserving the treasured custom of postcard-sending
  
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• Phocuswright releases ‘Travel Forward: Data, Insights & Trends for 2026’, sponsored by Travel Guard

  12-12-2025 08:56 via breakingtravelnews.com
  Phocuswright today released Travel Forward: Data, Insights & Trends for 2026, sponsored by Travel Guard, its annual year-end and year-ahead report that provides a clear, data-driven view of the $1.67 trillion global travel market. The free report brings together the company’s most insightful analysis and presents it through interactive charts and visuals that reveal the forces shaping the year ahead.The global travel industry enters 2026 with steady momentum. Total gross bookings are p
  
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• ‘We walked in awe, gazing across the sea’: readers’ favourite travel discoveries of 2025

  12-12-2025 08:00
  From Essex to Istanbul, and from a soul music bar to a dramatic mountain pass, our tipsters share their personal travel highlights of the yearMoments after stepping off the bus, I wanted to text my friend: “What have I done to you, why did you tell me to come here?” As I weaved my way through coach-party day trippers, my initial suspicions dissipated. I came to swim, but Piran offered so much more. Venetian squares provided a delicately ornate backdrop, while cobbled passageways hous
  
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• The 20 best places to travel in 2026

  11-12-2025 14:00 via bbc.com
  
  BBC journalists' top destinations this year
  
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• Ferrari World Abu Dhabi Celebrates 15 Years with Star-Studded Anniversary

  11-12-2025 11:44 via breakingtravelnews.com
  Ferrari World Yas Island, Abu Dhabi celebrated its 15th anniversary on December 3, 2025, in the presence of Charles Leclerc, Scuderia Ferrari HP Formula 1 Driver, Ferrari executives including Maria Carla Liuni, Ferrari’s Chief Brand Officer, Julien Kauffmann, CEO of Miral Experiences, tier 1 media outlets, and the park’s dedicated annual pass holders and VIP guests. The milestone event brought together partners, fans and long-time supporters to honor 15 years of record-breaking rides
  
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• WorldTicket by GO7 expands IATA BSP network to Armenia, completing its Caucasus coverage

  11-12-2025 08:29 via breakingtravelnews.com
  WorldTicket by GO7, which gives travel agents access to 150+ airline partners through its W2 ticket stock, has today gone live in IATA’s Billing and Settlement Plan (BSP) in Armenia.This enables IATA-accredited travel agents in the country to sell, issue, and settle W2 tickets in Armenian dram through their existing BSP setup – with instant ticketing and no additional configuration.
  
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