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Trip.com Group, a leading global travel service provider, explored the future of the Attractions & Tours (A&T) sector at the Attractions & Tours Global Partners Forum, part of the Group’s annual Envision.2026 conference.
Held at the prestigious Shanghai Concert Hall, the event brought together partners, including attraction providers and travel-sector KOLs, to examine how technological innovation, experience enhancement, and global collaboration are reshaping the fast-moving travel and attractions industry.
Published: Sun, 31 May 2026 06:11:29 +0000
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TripWorks, the operating system for modern tour and activity businesses, today announced the launch of Lead Center, the first native customer relationship management (CRM) and sales pipeline built directly into a booking platform for tour, activity, and attraction operators.
For years, operators have been forced to duct-tape together spreadsheets, inboxes, third-party automations, and generic CRMs to manage high-value sales activity. But traditional CRMs were built for software pipelines – not live departures, fluctuating capacities, guide schedules, guest counts or inventory that moves in real time.
Published: Fri, 29 May 2026 06:05:07 +0000
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The new Travelport Cognizant AI partnership is a significant step for both companies. Travelport is taking a significant step into AI-enabled travel technology through a new collaboration with Cognizant. The companies will incorporate Anthropic’s Claude AI into Travelport’s retail and distribution platforms.
Published: Thu, 28 May 2026 11:30:58 +0000
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Artificial intelligence is changing how people search and book travel, and hotels are entering a new era of digital competition.
Published: Thu, 28 May 2026 11:24:55 +0000
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Sandbox VR, the world’s premier destination for premium location-based virtual reality experiences, today announced the opening of a new location at Town Square near the Las Vegas Strip. This marks the third location in the city, which can draw more than 40 million tourists per year (source: Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority) and is a hub of consumer demand for immersive entertainment experiences, an industry valued at $137.70B in 2025 and projected to reach $1,024.55B by 2033 (source: Grand View Research). The new location, which will open on June 12, is ideal for Las Vegas locals, conveniently located just off the freeway with free parking.
Published: Thu, 28 May 2026 10:50:39 +0000
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RateGain Travel Technologies Limited, a global leader in AI-powered SaaS solutions for the travel and hospitality industry, today announced the appointment of Heather Moses as Chief Marketing Officer. Based in Boston, Heather will lead RateGain’s global marketing function, driving category leadership, brand growth, and GTM strategy while overseeing communications, design, demand generation, and integrated marketing initiatives across the company’s expanding portfolio of AI-powered travel and hospitality solutions.
Published: Thu, 28 May 2026 07:00:44 +0000
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Mews, the hospitality operating system, and SiteMinder, the leading hotel commerce platform, have partnered to create the hotel industry’s first fully-integrated best-in-class distribution solution. Introduced today at Mews Unfold in Amsterdam, the solution will see SiteMinder’s distribution capability natively embedded within the Mews Operating System, marking the first time that hotels of any size can access the industry’s largest distribution network without leaving the platform their property runs on.
Published: Thu, 28 May 2026 05:59:45 +0000
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The average hotel runs on eight to ten different software vendors: a property management system (PMS) for reservations, a revenue management system (RMS) for pricing, a channel manager for distribution, a separate inbox for messaging, a separate kiosk for check-in, a separate point of sale (POS) for F&B, a separate receivables tool to chase what hasn’t been paid. Each of these tools solved one problem. Together, they created a bigger one.
Published: Wed, 27 May 2026 12:57:52 +0000
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easyJet and Amsterdam Schiphol Airport are today announcing the rollout of electronic TaxiBot technology for Airbus aircraft operations at Schiphol, following a successful trial earlier this year. The introduction marks another step in easyJet’s ongoing strategy to improve operational efficiency and reduce emissions both in the air and on the ground.
TaxiBot, funded by the SESAR project HERON**, is a semi-robotic, push-pull-free aircraft tractor that enables aircraft to taxi between the gate and runway without using their main jet engines. Instead, the aircraft operates using only its Auxiliary Power Unit (APU), significantly reducing fuel burn, CO₂ emissions and noise during ground operations.
Published: Wed, 27 May 2026 08:59:29 +0000
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JALUX Inc. (JALUX), the trading company of Japan Airlines (JAL), and ispace, inc. (ispace), a global lunar exploration company, today announced that the two companies have signed a payload service agreement (PSA) for ispace’s next lunar landing mission, Mission 3, currently scheduled for 2028.
Under the agreement, Japan Airlines Co., Ltd. (JAL) and JALUX will begin selling payload transport capacity to private companies and local governments on May 27, 2026, for delivery to the lunar surface.
Published: Wed, 27 May 2026 08:11:05 +0000