Spotnana provides a modern platform for booking and managing travel arrangements, specifically designed for corporations and channel partners in the travel industry. The platform allows users to access a wide range of travel content, including air, hotel, car, and rail options, and offers self-service features for travelers to make changes, cancel bookings, and redeem unused ticket credits without needing assistance from agents. Spotnana's infrastructure supports New Distribution Capability (NDC), enabling direct integrations with top suppliers and simplifying the travel management process. Unlike its competitors, Spotnana emphasizes a user-friendly interface and excellent customer service, ensuring efficient handling of complex bookings and changes. The company's goal is to streamline travel management for businesses and enhance the overall travel experience for users.

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With 2024 officially closed, travel industry leaders are looking ahead.2025 is sure to shape up as another exciting chapter in the travel history books building on plenty of newsworthy happenings, trends and people moves in 2024. Experts from across the industry shared predictions around a myriad of topics including generative artificial intelligence, search, transparency, the funding climate and the future of branding

Travel Industry Leaders' Predictions For 2025

Despite having a number of corporate travel startup investments and exits under his belt, Steve Singh is nowhere near done.The co-founder of Concur, a business he sold to SAP in 2014, is currently CEO of Spotnana, an investor in and executive chairman of Center, Otto, Spotnana and Troop and continues to build out his vision for the perfect trip.Speaking during a Center Stage session at The Phocuswright Conference 2024, Singh said he's still learning, he's still having fun and feels "energized" by what emerging technology can do for corporate travel.His view is that change is already happening with technologies such as the cloud and artificial intelligence able to really improve the traveler experience as well as drive efficiency and reduce cost across corporate travel booking and expense management.Singh also discussed the need to work with open systems enabling many parties to innovate further and create additional value."Part of the reason why we actually invested in Spotnana and worked on building out the Spotnana platform is that the system of record for travel is archaic," he said."There's not a lot you can do with the existing system of record. It's not extensible in any way, shape or form. So we looked at this and said 'Can we come up with a modern version or modern system of record, make it completely extensible by anybody adding value to the trip or anybody adding value to the traveler.'"Singh went on to discuss what the corporate travel booking journey might look like 10 years from now and where and how AI agents might replace human travel agents and technology intermediaries including online booking tools and global distribution players.He also shared how his leadership style has changed over the years, an investment he wishes he'd made and what he still wants to achieve. Watch the full session below with PhocusWire executive editor Linda Fox.Executive Interview: Upending Corporate Travel (Again)!VIDEO

Steve Singh On Evolution From Archaic Systems To Perfect Trip

Travel tech specialist Spotnana has appointed Jugdeep Bal as vice president of partnerships.

Spotnana names VP of partnerships

Pirasenna Thiyagarajan, chief technology and product officer at Flexe. (Flexe Photo). — Pirasenna Thiyagarajan joined Seattle warehousing logistics and shipping startup Flexe as its chief technology and product officer. Thiyagarajan in recent years held multiple CTO roles at Bay Area startups. He also worked for nearly six years at Amazon Lab216, an RD hub based in Sunnyvale, Calif. His most recent role for Amazon Lab216 was head of engineering for last mile technologies, which he left in 2016.“Piras has a passion for challenging the status quo and pushing the boundaries in understanding customers’ needs, which will help usher in a new era for Flexe as the leader of flexible warehousing infrastructure,” said a LinkedIn post by the company announcing the news

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"Through our partnership with Thrust Carbon, every travel manager and traveler using our platform can have a more holistic understanding of their carbon emissions."

Spotnana Partners With Thrust Carbon For Sustainable Travel Management

Marriott International has launched an online travel booking program designed for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The new Business Access by Marriott Bonvoy combines a suite of online booking tools with benefits and rewards from Marriott Bonvoy’s portfolio of brands, the company said in a Tuesday (July 9) press release. “Whether small- to medium-sized businesses are looking for convenient online booking capabilities for their employees or better expense management solutions, the all-in-one platform, merged with our portfolio of hotel brands around the world, provides everything they need to manage their business travel needs,” Drew Pinto, executive vice president and chief revenue and technology officer at Marriott International, said in the release

Marriott Launches Online Travel Booking Program For Small Businesses

"There was an article where it was thought of as if Spotnana bought Direct Travel and we are a full-blown [travel management company].

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Here's our roundup of the people, product and partner news from the global travel industry this week.Leadership updates from Serko, SITA, HolidayPirates, Mobi and GraspSerko, an online travel platform for business, announced the. appointment of David Holyoke as its head of unmanaged travel to take effect. on July 1

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Here's our roundup of the people, product and partner news from the global travel industry this week.Etraveli, AmadeusEtraveli Group has extended its partnership with Amadeus to enable the sourcing and distribution of content from the flights technology provider.The agreement also includes virtual interlining content from Etraveli Group subsidiary TripStack via the Amadeus Travel Platform. Amadeus said the move provides travel sellers access to "more complex and diversified content."Read more from Amadeus.SiteMinder, CloudbedsSiteMinder, an e-commerce platform for hotels, and Cloudbeds, provider of hospitality management system, have established a strategic partnership to expand connectivity between their platforms.The companies say the collaboration will provide Cloudbeds customers with direct access to SiteMinder’s revenue platform, while SiteMinder customers can explore the property management system offered by Cloudbeds.Read more details here from SiteMinder.WestJet, FetcherrFetcherr, a startup that offers a generative artificial intelligence pricing, inventory and publishing engine, has partnered with the WestJet Group , Canada's leading low-cost airline and largest vacation provider, to implement its large market model (LMM).Fetcherr, a PhocusWire Hot 25 Travel Startup for 2023, said its LMM is the industry's first AI-driven market engine that understands market dynamics, precisely forecasts demand and market trends and generates the best market moves based on the predicted actions of all market variables.Read more from Fetcherr.Spotnana, KyteKyte, a technology company that provides access to inventory from low-cost airlines through a standardized API, is partnering with Spotnana, a travel-as-a-service platform for corporations and consumers.Kyte was a PhocusWire Hot 25 Travel Startup for 2021. The companies said the partnership will enable Spotnana to access affordable airline content from leading low-cost carriers such as easyJet and Ryanair through Kyte’s advanced API.Read more details here.eSIM Go, Lufthansa GroupeSIM Go, a platform that allows businesses to offer data to their customers using eSIM technology, is partnering with Lufthansa Group to provide data services to passengers across four of its airlines.eSIM Go is said to have already established partnerships with many airlines like Wizz Air and Icelandair along with airports including Sydney airport and Fraport Group as their new partnership with Lufthansa grows the total addressable market for its B2B2C travel eSIM solutions by 100 million passengers a year.Read more details here from eSIM Go.Stripe, AccorStripe, a financial infrastructure that enables businesses to accept payments online and in person while also providing tools for managing finances, is partnering with Accor, a world-leading hospitality group that offers a wide range of accommodations in over 110 countries.The companies say that this partnership will transform the payment experience for guests, improve conversion rates and unlock new business opportunities while keeping guests at the heart of payment experiences.Read more details here from Stripe.Hospitable, eviivo, Key DataHospitable, a platform that streamlines short-term rental management has announced its partnership with Key Data, a global short-term rental data specialist that provides comprehensive analytics solutions for businesses.The companies said the partnership will allow independent owners to access the same data-driven tools that are used by larger operators and will be available immediately to all Hospitable users who connect their account to a Key Data account.Meanwhile, Key Data has also struck a deal with eviivo. The hospitality software provider said the partnership will offer users insights while empowering property managers with the tools they need

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Spotnana, the world's first Travel-as-a-Service platform, continues to build partnerships, the latest with Kyte, a technology company specialising in providing access to low-cost inventory via a modern and standardised API.

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