Wamda

Regional

AI redefines MENA corporate travel business

An article by Stan Klyuy, a Chief Commercial Officer at Tumodo, an online business travel platform. In 2024, the digital...

AI Artificial intelligence Travel

Lebanon

Jedo acquires Jump-in App to penetrate Saudi market

Lebanon-founded and Netherlands-based travel app Jedo has acquired the Saudi app Jump-in for an unknown amount. Founded in 2022 by...

Jedo Jump-in App Tourism

U.A.E

Travel startup Dharma raises $4.7 million pre-Series A round

UAE-based travel management platform Dharma, has raised a $4.7 million pre-Series A funding round led by San Francisco-based...

Dharma Travel Convivialite Ventures

U.A.E

UAE-based travel marketplace Wego acquires Cleartrip

UAE-based online travel marketplace Wego is set to acquire Cleartrip’s Middle East business in the second half of 2022 for an...

Cleartrip Wego Travel

Regional

Is there hope for startups in the tourism sector?

The accelerating pace of vaccination efforts worldwide has led to encouraging signs of recovery in the tourism industry, but as the virus...

Travel Tourism

Regional

What's next for traveltech?

The travel sector was the worst-hit during the lockdown and it will likely take years before numbers reach pre-Covid levels. Yet...

Travel traveltech podcast

Regional

Mobile drives online travel bookings

Mobile is becoming one of the main ways that users in the Middle East are searching and booking their travel options according to a report...

Travel sector Travel travel tech

Saudi Arabia

Al Tayyar acquires rest of 40 per cent stake in Almosafer

Source: Menabytes Al Tayyar Group, one of the largest travel and tourism companies in Saudi Arabia with presence almost all over the...

news Investment Travel

U.A.E

Four startups from the travel and tourism industry won Intelak’s third cohort

Four Dubai-based startups aiming at transforming the aviation, travel, and tourism industries graduated on April 30 from the...

uae Intelak GE

U.A.E

Abu Dhabi's Fikra Labs accelerator selects 12 finalists, embraces hospitality innovation

Weeks after announcing Fikra Labs, an acceleration programme for the travel and tourism industries in Abu Dhabi, 32 startups out of 200...

Fikra Labs bootcamp startups

U.A.E

Abu Dhabi is getting ready for an innovation-loaded takeoff

This article is a crosspost from Fikra Labs. If it wasn’t for all the great aviation innovations that the world...

abu dhabi Travel Tourism

U.A.E

How is Abu Dhabi getting ready to become a world-class tourist destination

This article is a crosspost from Fikra Labs. In 2016, the number of hotel guests in Abu Dhabi reached 4.4 million, signaling...

Miral Yas Island Tourism

U.A.E

Announcing Fikra Labs, entrepreneurs’ ticket for innovation in world-class travel and tourism

Innovation is often the ultimate differentiator between leaders and followers. Today’s world is quickly adapting to whatever...

Fikra Labs abu dhabi uae

Regional

Intelak Aviation & Travel Incubator [Apply before January 6, 2018]

Intelak is a hub that aims to inspire and develop teams to become part of the conversation that is happening globally on the future of...

Travel Intelak Incubator

Regional

Great potential, more work in store for the MENA’s travel tech sector

At GITEX 2017, Dubai Airport Authority revealed a virtual aquarium tunnel. As you walked through the tunnel, consumed by glimpses of...

uae Travel Tourism

Regional

This is why hotels need to start working with startups [Video]

Technology is disrupting all sectors and hotels are not an exception to that global trend. According to Deloitte’s 2017 travel and...

Travel hospitality Tourism

Global

New startups on the block: September

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to watch. Blink Egypt Development...

Startup List news AI

Regional

New startups on the block: June

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to...

new startups f&b SAAS

Tunisia

Cyberesa improves e-tourism in Tunisia

Despite the regional instability and tourism shakiness, Tunisian e-tourism is actually witnessing bright days and is not affected by the...

Tourism technologies Cloud

Regional

New startups on the block: May

Startups are launching faster than we can write about them, so here’s our list of raw newbies to...

new startups Healthcare Travel

U.A.E

Hidden gold mines for MENA’s air tech entrepreneurs

If Paul Papadimitriou’s realistic air tech projections can be summed up in one piece of cautionary advice for startups, it is that in...

Travel aviation GE

Regional

Holidayme.com secures $7M funding, a boost for regional travel industry

UAE online travel agency Holidayme.com has raised $7 million in Series A funding from Silicon Valley-based Accel Partners, Saudi...

Travel holidayme Geet Bhalla

Regional

IATA NDC Hackathon

IATA invites talented developers, designers, marketers, idea generators, and futurists to transform the travel experience for...

hackathon Travel Airlines

U.A.E

MENA gets aviation incubator Intelak

The UAE launched its first aviation-oriented incubator today for entrepreneurs wanting to disrupt the travel sector. Emirates Group, in...

Intelak MEMakersGE Incubator

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