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Flight Centre Travel Group has appointed Michel Rouse as corporate chief technology officer, EMEA, to drive strategic development of technology solutions for its business travel and MICE brands. These include FCM Travel Solutions, Corporate Traveller, cievents, Stage & Screen Travel Services and Flight Centre Business Travel. Rouse joins from leading global travel technology provider Amadeus…
Expedia has announced that its board of directors has approved the appointment of Mark Okerstrom, currently chief financial officer and executive vice president of operations, to succeed Dara Khosrowshahi as president and chief executive of the company. Khosrowshahi was appointed chief executive of Uber earlier this week. Okerstrom will also join Expedia’s board of directors,…
Travel tech giant Sabre is to lay off more than 900 workers, amounting to more than nine per cent of its total global workforce. The news comes following a $6.5 million second-quarter loss at the company. In a statement, the Texas-based company said it hoped the downsizing would result in $110 million in savings by…
Clear Channel UK will support the mayor of London’s #LondonIsOpen for Summer campaign, placing ads on over 100 of its state-of-the-art New World Payphones phone kiosks around the capital. The campaign, which runs throughout the summer will appear on over 100 Adshel Live screens situated right across the city from Barnet to Bexley Heath and…
Discover Los Angeles has released the Discover LA app, a sleekly designed, pocket guide exclusively made for those looking to optimise their experience in the City of Angels. Packed with rich content and tailored for those looking to explore the best of Los Angeles, the iOS app launch coincides with the start of the busy…
Julian Eccles has joined Travelport as its new vice president for public relations and corporate communications. He replaces Kate Aldridge who has decided to leave the company later this year. Eccles’ previous roles include time as vice president for corporate communications at the international telecoms and media company Millicom. He also worked in communications director…
Sabre Corporation is taking GetThere to the next level with the launch of a fast, design led mobile experience to provide business travellers a simple way to book and manage in-policy travel on the go. The GetThere user experience team conducted hundreds of qualitative usability research sessions to evaluate what travellers and travel managers truly…
The Travel Corporation has reaffirmed its on-going commitment to its valued travel agent partners with the launch of a robust new training initiative, the TTC Agent Academy . The singular platform showcases the four core brands of Trafalgar, Contiki, Insight Vacations and Uniworld via a series of interactive, user-friendly modules and is complemented with a…
TripAdvisor has announced the results of its 2017 Hotel Pricing Report, revealing UK hotel room rates will be significantly cheaper in 2017 compared to 2016. Driven in large part by a drop in the value of the pound, many inbound travellers to the UK are likely to see their spending power increase in 2017, potentially…
The Alabama tourism department’s Civil Rights Trail App is launching multimedia updates to commemorate Black History Month. The mobile application allows users to walk in the footsteps of the Civil Rights Movement by exploring the people, places and events that brought Alabama into the international spotlight and changed the course of history. Users can do…
