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Advantage Travel Partnership and WIN Global Travel Network have agreed a partnership with AI technology provider Grapevine to use their Marvin AI engine to target travellers who have booked a flight but not an associated hotel or other in-destination spend.
Advantage says 70 per cent or more of bookings have no attached hotel and TMCs often capture little to no in-destination spend. Marvin will make personalised recommendations to travellers that are in-policy and in the preferred booking channel.
The organisations say the tie-up will “deliver a consumer-grade, total-trip user experience for travellers, enhanced duty of care for TMC customers and increased revenues for TMCs”.
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May 11th 2021, 8:12
Agents admit they were caught off guard by the government’s advice against leisure travel to ‘amber’ destinations but insist the countries remain a sales opportunity for peak summer.
During the announcement on which countries would be on the ‘green list’ for international travel from May 1, transport secretary Grant Shapps said countries graded amber should not be visited for holidays for now.
Speaking on a Travel Weekly webcast, travel agents admitted they had not anticipated the “do not travel” message for amber listed destinations, which make up the biggest number of countries and require travellers to quarantine at home as well as being tested on their return.
Apr 9th 2021, 6:33
The need for costly PCR Covid tests when international travel resumes has been widely condemned from all sides of the travel industry.
The edict by the government’s Global Travel Taskforce was criticised as a “hammer blow” for business travel while independent agents and operators joined easyJet in hitting out at the costs involved for holidaymakers.
EasyJet, Aito and the Business Travel Association led the attack on the requirements as part of a traffic light system to be used to categorise countries based on risk, as previously announced.
Travellers will need to pay for tests when leaving and returning to the UK with the government yet to confirm that overseas travel can resume from May 17.
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Travelport
has announced its answer to multi-source content distribution with the launch
this week of Travelport Plus, which CEO Greg Webb calls a ânext-gen travel
retail platform .
Webb said in an email to customers that the platform would offer âone agent desktop, one set of APIs, and one AI and data-driven distribution channelâ and would enable agencies to be better retailers, with
cutting-edge tools and more automation [and] suppliers to merchandise, with
tools to differentiate brands and productsâ. Travel
management companies will still use Travelportâs Smartpoint as their point-of-sale
but sitting behind the familiar interface will be the new Travelport Plus
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