TAP Air Portugal has signed an agreement with AccessRail that enables the carrier's passengers to book high-speed train travel on the same itinerary as their flight, the carrier announced. TAP air bookings both through the carrier's website and...
Lyft has agreed to sell its Level 5 self-driving car division to a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corp. for about $550 million in cash, the company announced this week.Lyft also signed a non-exclusive commercial agreement with Woven Planet,...
Extended Stay America shareholder Tarsadia Capital on April 26 filed a preliminary proxy statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission detailing its arguments against the proposed $6 billion 50/50 joint buyout offer by Blackstone Real Estate Partners...
Kurt Ekert on May 1 will step down as CEO of CWT, and the mega travel management company will replace him with current CFO and president of strategy and transformation Michelle McKinney Frymire, CWT announced Tuesday. McKinney Frymire joined...
Travel industry stakeholders on Monday cheered the European Commission president's comments that she expects the European Union to accept travelers from outside the EU who've been vaccinated against Covid-19, but said additional steps must be taken to support...
A long-awaited quarantine-free travel bubble between Hong Kong and Singapore will open on May 26, albeit with more restrictions than had been initially in place, the governments of both regions announced.The bubble will begin with a single, 200-traveler...
Extended Stay America set June 8 as the date for a shareholder vote on its agreement to be acquired for approximately $6 billion in a 50/50 joint venture between Blackstone Real Estate Partners and Starwood Capital Group, the...
The Travel and Meetings Society plans to release on Tuesday a free technology tool designed for travel managers to assess their end-to-end set-ups and "identify where specific strengths and/or gaps exist," the organization told BTN. The tool takes the...
More than half of business travelers from North America and the Asia-Pacific region would be comfortable flying domestically now amid the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new survey, but far fewer business travelers from Europe, the Middle East...
Extended-stay brand Homewood Suites by Hilton this week unveiled a new brand refresh and prototype design, about two years after it updated its public spaces and suite interiors, according to Hilton Worldwide.
Dubbed Prototype 10.0, the new design reduces...
