Hotel payment software platform Selfbook has landed a strategic investment from Amex Ventures. “The American Express brand is synonymous with global travel and payment security, and we are thrilled to have Amex Ventures be part of our investor base,” Khalid Meniri, Selfbook’s co-founder and CEO,...
When they say “pent-up travel demand” they mean it, as consumer use of airline booking apps and websites rose by double digits in the second quarter of 2022, signaling both a strong desire to travel despite inflation, and the increasing digital transformation of how travel...
Google is offering free hotel booking links on Search and Maps, an expansion of the program it debuted in 2021, a blog post noted Tuesday (March 29). The travel industry is coming back from the downtime of the pandemic, and so Google has been making...
India-based OYO has filed a valuation report with India’s ministry of corporate affairs indicating that the company did not expect to turn a profit until 2022, Reuters reported on Monday (Nov. 25). The losses were six times higher in 2019 through March compared to 2018, but...
December 08, 2022
Hotel payment software platform Selfbook has landed a strategic investment from Amex Ventures. “The American Express brand is synonymous with global travel and payment security, and we are thrilled to have Amex Ventures be part of our investor base,” Khalid Meniri, Selfbook’s co-founder and CEO, said in a news release Thursday (Dec. 8). “As hotels […]
March 30, 2022
Google is offering free hotel booking links on Search and Maps, an expansion of the program it debuted in 2021, a blog post noted Tuesday (March 29). The travel industry...
November 25, 2019
India-based OYO has filed a valuation report with India’s ministry of corporate affairs indicating that the company did not expect to turn a profit until 2022, Reuters reported on Monday (Nov....
June 12, 2019
Online travel booking startup Nustay has filed a complaint with the European Union’s antitrust regulator, the European Commission, accusing Expedia Group and Booking Holdings of breaching the region’s competition rules....
