Offline Travel Agency

PhocusWire's in-depth coverage of offline travel agencies, featuring news, analysis, interviews, research and more on the brands and their strategies, executives and positions in the market.

Interview / Distribution

CEO Spotlight: Luis Maroto of Amadeus

By Linda Fox | January 22, 2025

Luis Maroto's career at Amadeus spans 25 years and two IPOs. He joined the company in 2000 as director of marketing finance, became CFO in 2003 and was appointed president and CEO in 2011. Read More

News / Distribution

B2B hotel platform HBX Group to raise €725M through IPO

By Linda Fox | January 17, 2025

HBX Group was founded in Spain in 2001 as B2B bedbank Hotelbeds. Read More

News

Aerticket acquires Servivuelo to boost presence in Spain

By Linda Fox | January 9, 2025

Aerticket continues to roll up consolidator companies with its latest acquisition of Servivuelo in Spain. Read More

News / Distribution

Private equity firm Creador acquires hospitality marketplace MG Group

By Linda Fox | January 2, 2025

MG Group, an Indonesia-based company that operates a B2B hospitality marketplace in Southeast Asia, will now look to accelerate its global growth post-acquisition. Read More

News / Technology

Corporate travel executives discuss AI hype and efficiency gains

By Linda Fox | December 30, 2024

Amex GBT's vice president of AI strategy and the founder of business travel AI startup Otto discuss the rapid pace of development with AI and where the real potential lies. Read More

News / Startups

TripSuite raises $5M to grow AI platform for agencies

By Morgan Hines | December 19, 2024

TripSuite's platform for travel agencies offers tools for customer relationship management, commission tracking, accounting, payments and more. Read More

News / Online

Travel's movers, shakers and newsmakers in 2024

By PhocusWire | December 18, 2024

These are the trends and topics in travel that have made headlines in 2024 and that we expect to hear more about in 2025. Read More

News / Distribution

Troop founder on travel tech disruption and group travel growth

By Linda Fox | December 17, 2024

Dennis Vilovic, founder and co-CEO of Troop, believes group travel could increase by 30% next year despite pressure from some large corporations for employees to return to the office full time. Read More

News / Technology

Travel industry collaboration needed to reduce friction

By Morgan Hines | December 16, 2024

For the travel industry as a whole, removing friction and leaving customers satisfied is the real goal, according to Decius Valmorbida, president of travel at Amadeus. Read More

News / Distribution

Sabre CEO Kurt Ekert talks intermediary opportunity and company growth

By Mark Frary | December 12, 2024

Sabre CEO and president Kurt Ekert doesn't believe AI is a threat to the global distribution system and can't see the demise of traditional airline distribution any time soon. Read More

News / Distribution

Airline tech experts on retailing and distribution trends

By Linda Fox | December 4, 2024

Airline technology executives from CitizenPlane and Dohop discuss the adoption of NDC as airlines look to the next phase of their retailing journeys and ongoing challenges. Read More

News / Online

CDS Groupe acquires enterprise resource planning provider SIAP

By Morgan Hines | November 27, 2024

SIAP is an Italy-based provider of software for travel management companies and tour operators, with more than 1,000 clients across the country. Read More

News / Startups

Acai Travel helps Hopper boost customer service with AI tools

By Linda Fox | November 20, 2024

Hopper is the latest partner for Acai Travel, a PhocusWire Hot 25 Travel Startup for 2024 that is using AI to improve internal operations for travel companies. Read More