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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 350

travel technology

Team at Israeli startup Joyned in Jerusalem. (Nir Slakman/Courtesy)
May 25, 2023, 1:17 pm
Israeli social booking startup inks deal with Spanish hotel chain
Joyned’s booking software lets travel website users invite friends & family to a live chat, in which all of them see the site’s content to organize and book their vacation
By Sharon Wrobel
Illustration photo: A person uses a smart phone in Chicago for online shopping, including travel shopping, which has shifted from desktop to mostly mobile devices. (AP Photo)
May 16, 2023, 3:13 pm
South Korea’s booking app Yanolja to buy Israeli travel tech outfit Go Global Travel
Softbank-backed Yanolja is acquiring Bnei Brak-based firm from Mid-Market Israel (AMI) Opportunities Fund to expand globally and become one of the largest travel solution platforms
By Sharon Wrobel
Israeli startup UpStay develops fully automated platform for personalized upgrades of hotel rooms. (Courtesy)
January 31, 2023, 9:14 pm
Canadian traveltech firm buys Israeli hotel upgrade startup UpStay, opens R&D center
Upstay’s system uses AI algorithms to send hotel guests personalized offers for upgrades; Canada’s Plusgrade says it plans to hire an additional 30 people for Israeli R&D center
By Sharon Wrobel
Pangea's biometric smart card would hold COVID-19 information about users, becoming sort of an 'immunity' passport for foreign travel (Courtesy)
June 16, 2020, 3:53 pm
Israel’s Pangea offers digital health ‘passport’ to ease travel amid pandemic
Company says it has developed a biometric smart card that would hold crucial medical information about users entering a country, confirming their virus status
By Shoshanna Solomon
Refundit's app aims to allow tourists from around the world who are visiting Europe to claim their VAT refund via a digital process (Courtesy)
November 14, 2019, 3:32 pm
VAT-refund startup Refundit raises $9.8 million led by travel-tech giant Amadeus
Venture arm of Spanish firm says the Israeli company’s app ‘improves the traveler experience enormously’
By Shoshanna Solomon
Taxis from the company Hadar at Ben Gurion Airport outside of Tel Aviv, May 29, 2017. (Flash90)
April 2, 2019, 2:52 pm
New El Al online service helps passengers share rides to and from the airport
Platform, accessed by smartphone, said to be first of its kind produced by an airline; it will allow customers of any airline to split a taxi or drive together
By Shoshanna Solomon
Ziv Tirosh, left, and Uri Levine, the co-founders of Refundit, which seeks to digitalize the VAT refund process in Europe (Courtesy)
December 6, 2018, 4:20 pm
Israeli startups dominate final stage of UN travel tech competition
Refundit, SeeVoov, Howazit and Pruvo join six other travel startups in the finals to be held in January in Madrid; 2,771 companies from 132 countries applied for top prize
By Shoshanna Solomon
The Boeing logo on the fuselage of a Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner test plane presented on the Tarmac of Le Bourget, June 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/Eric Piermont)
February 21, 2018, 3:00 pm
El Al venture arm, Boeing join forces to scope out new air travel tech
As part of the collaboration, aerospace behemoth will inject an undisclosed sum into El Al’s Cockpit Innovation
By Shoshanna Solomon
Israeli startup Pruvo seeks to make hotel booking even cheaper by tracking prices (Courtesy)
September 28, 2017, 11:21 am
Israeli startup seeks to slash hotel rates by tracking price drops
Three-year-old Pruvo monitors reservations after they’re made and promises savings over major booking competitors
By ToI Staff
Bitemojo gives travelers guided food tours in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Berlin, Rome and Barcelona. (Kfir Harbi/bitemojo)
July 17, 2017, 4:22 pm
Israeli app gives travelers best tips to grab a bite
Bitemojo, created by the founders of tourism website Yalla Basta, offers food tours in Israeli, European cities
By Anna Kuritzkes
Though he’s CEO of a major travel company, Stephen Kaufer says he doesn’t really have wanderlust — but he would like to revisit his favorite destination: Jerusalem. (Courtesy TripAdvisor/via JTA)
June 12, 2015, 6:26 am
TripAdvisor CEO says his favorite trip was to Jerusalem
Stephen Kaufer saw a need for good customer feedback while planning trips; now he’s the head of the world’s largest travel site
By Uriel Heilman
The Qlika team at their Ramat Gan offices. Priceline bought the Israeli firm earlier this year (Photo credit: Courtesy)
November 21, 2014, 11:09 am
Priceline hotel site seeks big data expertise in israel
Agoda.com, a subsidiary of the online travel giant, is opening an R&D center in Tel Aviv
By David Shamah
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