Hugo Pellegrin, auteur/autrice sur Le 10 Minutes Hôtelier - Page 15 sur 32

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Trois quart des hôteliers utilisent l’IA dans leur établissement selon Food Hotel Tech

💾 At Food Hotel Tech, survey of 900 hospitality professionals revealed 75% use AI in their hotels, commonly for content and image generation (46%) and online review management (35%). AI is credited with "significant" time savings (80%), customer relations improvement (45%), and cost optimization (44%). However, concerns about AI include potential dehumanization (41%) and lack of control (19%). Methodology: In-person 15-minute interviews during the event on March 19-20, 2025. Respondents: 55% independent hoteliers, 45% chain-affiliated; roles varied from General Managers (35%) to marketing, HR, IT Directors (34%), and operational staff (31%).

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Seize start-ups du Travel ont levé 151 millions d’euros en avril 2025

💰 April 2025 saw 16 travel startups raising over €151 million, focusing on automation and ecological technologies. Unravel, specializing in social shopping in travel, raised €6.9 million. Limitless Travel, enhancing accessibility for travelers with disabilities, secured €7.7 million. Juno obtained €1.8 million to simplify business travel management. Indian fintech Scapia raised €36 million for travel financial services. SuiteOp garnered €2.7 million for automating hotel management. Headbox, in the MICE sector, raised €3.4 million. Diamo, for hotel revenue management, secured €3.6 million. Goodwings, aiming for greener business travel, raised €2.6 million. Vacation rental startup Conduit entered real estate with €2.7 million. Onfly raised €35 million to modernize travel & expenses in Latin America. Roh secured €8 million for automating hotel payments. Rimigo, using AI for customized travel, raised €484,000. Fora Travel raised €35 million to revolutionize travel agencies. Roamr, reducing business travel costs by 30%, garnered €2.6 million. Visa2Fly obtained €1.7 million for automating visa applications. CleanMob raised €1.3 million to enhance fleet management with AI.

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CleanMob lève 1,3 million d’euros pour optimiser la gestion de flottes avec l’IA

💸 CleanMob secured €1.3 million in its first funding round to optimize corporate fleet management using AI. Investors include BPI France, 212Founders by CDG Invest, MNF Ventures, Tremplin Capital, and 4 business angels. Founded in 2021, CleanMob aims for 50,000 connected vehicles by 2027 and plans to bolster its sales team. Its proprietary technology uses virtual sensors for predictive AI, signal processing, and physical law modeling, allowing rapid deployment within 72 hours without physical intervention. Clients like Engie Home Services, and Asten Santé have thousands of vehicles connected. CleanMob, based at Station F and part of MoveLab's 13th cohort, targets mid-sized and large corporations for commercial expansion. CEO Salah El Hajji highlights the cost-effectiveness and precision over traditional OBD physical boxes.

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SNCF : “Il y a une vraie révolution de l’intelligence artificielle”

🏤 Julien Nicolas, digital and AI director at SNCF, aims to facilitate and accelerate AI deployment, leveraging market solutions, internal tools, and LLMs. SNCF's AI strategy focuses on employee enablement, performance improvement, and customer experience enhancement, driven by a committee including SNCF Réseau, SNCF Gares et Connexions, SNCF Voyageurs, Rail Logistics Europe, Geodis, and Keolis. Groupe SNCF GPT, powered by Chat GPT, Le Chat, and Claude, is now utilized by 100,000 employees for efficiency and access to 70,000 reference documents. AI assists in predictive maintenance by analyzing images and satellite data, and optimizing customer relations with bots and conversational interfaces. Collaborations like the one with XXII through 574 Invest and initiatives like the AI and optimization chair with École polytechnique support open innovation. SNCF's AI tools seek to double train modal share from 10% to 20% in France, reduce electricity consumption by 7-12% through AI-assisted eco-driving, and further the goal of transport decarbonization.

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ChatGPT facilite l’e-commerce et débarque sur WhatsApp

💰 OpenAI's ChatGPT Search has become its most popular service, with more than a billion web queries generated. In February 2025, AI-driven internet searches accounted for 0.55% of online searches, per Eskimoz. ChatGPT Search now offers conversational e-commerce, allowing users to search for products, compare options, and make purchases without ads. Initially, features are tested on fashion, beauty, home goods, and electronics, with plans for expansion. Plus, OpenAI's language model has integrated into WhatsApp. Google, potentially facing a US breakup, hit a record 8.5 billion daily searches in 2022.

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Sabre revend Synxis 1,1 milliard de dollars pour se recentrer sur la distribution

💸 Sabre sold its lodging solution, Synxis, to private equity firm TPG for $1.1 billion, 20 years after acquiring it in 2005. This move aims to focus on Sabre's core business of airline and hotel distribution, expecting to net $960 million from the sale. Proceeds will primarily go towards debt repayment and financial statement improvement. Post-sale, Synxis will become an independent company again, with a technology platform used by 40% of major hotel accounts. Sabre's board approved the transaction, expected to finalize by the end of Q3 2025, pending standard closing conditions and regulatory approvals, without financing contingencies.

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Visa2Fly lève 1,7 million d’euros pour automatiser les demandes de visa

💸 Visa2fly, an Indian startup specializing in AI-powered visa processing, secured a $2 million funding round (equivalent to €1.7 million) led by M Venture Partners with contributions from Flipkart Ventures, FinSight Ventures, and Thinkuvate. With its base in Gurgaon, the company aims to enhance technology-based verification tools, improve visa processing automation, and strengthen partnerships with travel platforms. Visa2fly has processed 1.5 million visa applications and collaborates with travel OTAs such as Ixigo and WeGo, payment companies like Niyo Global, and airlines including Spicejet. Founded in 2022, Visa2fly offers visa services to over 70 destinations and is committed to using AI to streamline key processes and improve travel document management's efficiency, contrasting with firms like Visamundi that doubt full automation. The travel technology market is projected to reach $31.38 billion by 2030, as per Mordor Intelligence.

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DMA : En Europe, la résistance des hôteliers contre Booking.com s’organise

🛏 In France and Spain, hundreds of hoteliers are mobilizing against Booking.com's practices deemed abusive through national collective actions. French lawyer Marc Barennes from Geradin Partners is involved in a collective action in France, opposing the reintroduction of covert parity clauses by Booking.com, despite a French competition authority decision and the Macron law's prohibition of such clauses. The action also addresses opaque OTA practices, excessive commissions (up to 25%), and a resulting estimated €1.5 billion prejudice for French hoteliers between 2015 and 2024. The collective action began on April 22, 2025, with 10 hoteliers and exceeded 100 by April 25, aiming for thousands before an October tribunal. Similar actions are in preparation in Italy and Portugal, with Spain estimating hoteliers' damages at 2% of annual turnover.

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Roamr lève 2,6 millions d’euros pour réduire les coûts des voyages d’affaires de 30%

💸 Roamr, an Irish startup, raised an additional €2.6 million in April 2025 for its pre-seed funding round, totaling over €3.16 million since its initiation in October 2024. Investors include Mike Halpin, Rick Kelley, Eoghan Quigley, and John Riordan, alongside new business angels. Roamr's solution for reducing business travel costs by 30% involves employees staying with personal contacts instead of hotels, saving companies money and fostering connections. The service operates in 100 countries, with plans to expand in the US and strengthen partnerships with workplace solutions such as Deel and Remofirst.

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Fora Travel lève 35 millions d’euros pour ubériser l’agence de voyages

💸 Fora Travel, an American travel agency, raised $40 million in a Series C funding round led by Thrive Capital and Insight Partners, including previous investors Forerunner and Heartcore Capital. The company, founded in 2022, has booked 2 million nights and generated over $1 billion in sales. Operating in 92 countries, Fora Travel's economic model offers a 12% average commission, with travel advisors keeping 70% of the fees. This funding follows a $20 million Series B.

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