Scottish online flight booking business Skyscanner has been sold to a Chinese buyer through a deal valuing it at £1.4bn, providing early investor Scottish Equity Partners with a big pay day.
Online travel business Expedia has opened a Usability Lab in London to tackle customer frustration and get a thorough grasp of consumer behaviour across its numerous apps and websites.
Consumer spending in the UK reached a six-month high In October, according to Visa, and it was the hospitality and leisure industry that led the way for the period in terms of strongest growth.
To mark the launch of our Black Cab Entrepreneurs series in partnership with taxi app Gett, we sat down with the company’s MD of Western Europe, Remo Gerber, for the first of our backseat video interviews.
Six years have passed since Secret Escapes launched to make luxury travel more affordable, so Real Business visited the company’s shiny Holborn office for one-to-one time with CEO and co-founder Alex Saint, a man who you might say is creating Heaven on Earth.
As technologies seen in sci-fi films become reality, US firm JetPack Aviation plans to launch the world’s first jet packs for public use in 2017, which will be aided with a £300,000 crowdfunding campaign running on Seedrs.
International Airlines Group (IAG), parent of British Airways, Aer Lingus and more, has launched a global startup accelerator scheme called Hangar 51 to solve problems affecting the travel industry.
UK business Hostmaker, which provides hospitality services to Airbnb hosts, has secured a $1.1m investment to scale across Europe and build on existing areas served including London, Rome, Barcelona and Paris.
Ultra-luxury cruise line Crystal Cruises claims its Crystal Mozart is the “world’s most technologically advanced river ship” so, with travel costing upwards of $3,000, the firm has introduced live camera views to provide would-be customers transparency.
With the bank holiday weekend ahead, Barclays has found British SMEs operating in hospitality sectors are experiencing impressive growth as holidaymakers nationwide opt for getaways on UK soil and spend an increasing amount in the process.
