Emaar Hospitality launches single-point app for all its properties
The aim is to engage customers, enable them to customize their travel plans, and revolutionize the way reservations are made.
‘Jumeirah E-butler’, a multilingual mobile platform to boost customer service
The service will be rolled out across the entire Jumeirah Hotels and Resorts portfolio by June 2019.
Machine learning and AI will revolutionize GCC tourism businesses
If implemented effectively – the latest innovations and tech advancements will help them to ‘sell travel’ more effectively in the future.
From Etourism to Rtourism
Artificial intelligence, service automation and robots are marking their first steps in the hospitality industry. Serge Chamlian, managing partner of h-hotelier, helps us navigate these unchartered waters
Plug and Play launches new hospitality acceleration program in Abu Dhabi
Plug and Play’s Travel & Hospitality Innovation Platform was founded in 2016 at their Silicon Valley headquarters, focused on discovering, supporting and scaling disruptive technologies that are reshaping the future of travel.
Quiqup announces £10 million strategic funding round
Quiqup, is a tech scale-up building a decentralized, AI-powered last-mile logistics infrastructure. This is designed to power same-day delivery services for retailers and restaurants of all sizes and across all industries. The existing investor, JOBI Capital, with participation from strategic investor Cedar Mundi Ventures, the Beirut based VC firm part...
markit, Lebanon’s 1st mobile supermarket application
The idea of markit started many years ago by a group of friends who saw a need for an easy and convenient grocery application service. In 2014, these four individuals began working on the project, which was made available to the Lebanese market 10 months ago. The premise was quite...
Four Seasons Chat is now available on nine messaging platforms including WhatsApp
Guests can use the Four Seasons App, Facebook Messenger, WeChat, KakaoTalk, LINE, Apple Business Chat and SMS.
Green energy production launched at JW Marriott Cairo
Will support the spread of the use of small solar cells installed in residential and commercial buildings, public buildings, hotels and industrial facilities.
Hilton partners with Netflix, launches Connected Room
Plans to roll out the technology to tens of thousands of rooms in hundreds more hotels in 2019 as well as the first non-U.S. locations.
