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Les Expériences et les Services de retour sur Airbnb, en quête de diversification

🏠 Airbnb reintroduces thousands of "services" and "experiences" for booking via its app, as announced on May 13, 2025. These offerings, available in 260 cities for services across 10 categories, and 650 cities worldwide for experiences, undergo professional certification and verification by Airbnb. The strategic shift, aimed at blending incredible lodgings with unique services, responds to a digital tourism activities market worth $280 billion, of which $80 billion is traded through digital channels. This move marks a diversification from its core accommodation business, amidst regulatory pressures on short-term rentals, and follows Airbnb's earlier experience offerings that faced profitability issues leading to reduced promotion in 2022.

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Stratolaunch fait atterrir un appareil après un vol à plus de Mach 5

🚀 Stratolaunch's Roc aircraft, a giant twin-fuselage hexa-engine, successfully launched and recovered the Talon-A2, a self-flying hypersonic glider rocket, on its second test flight, reaching speeds over Mach 5. The feat was achieved by the Mojave, California-based company, emphasizing Talon-A2's reusability after a successful attempt in December 2024. With an impressive wingspan of 117 meters, the Talon-A2 landed autonomously at Vandenberg Space Force Base after being released from Roc, signaling promising applications for hypersonic flight in defense and potentially commercial air transport. Stratolaunch CEO Zachary Krevor highlighted the company's progress: four Talon-A flights, twenty-four Roc flights, and two new supersonic and hypersonic aircraft flown within a year.

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La Turquie propose des visites immersives pour séduire les visiteurs

🌍 "Virtual Türkiye" is Turkey's new platform leveraging virtual reality to showcase its tourism highlights. Created in collaboration with Matterport and Virtual World Internet Ltd., the platform offers 360° views, enabling travelers to virtually explore hotels before visiting. Aimed at enhancing informed decision-making and promoting sustainable tourism by diversifying visitor attractions, the platform currently features virtual tours of hotels, spas, and restaurants, with plans to expand to tourist activities in the future.

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Le nouvel agent IA de Hugging Face ouvre des perspectives pour le Travel

🤗 Hugging Face launched Open Computer Agent, a new AI agent that navigates the web and uses applications autonomously, in May 2025. The agent performs tasks on a Linux virtual computer hosted in the cloud and is designed to make interfaces fully AI-driven, eliminating the need for traditional keyboard and mouse. Competitor OpenAI introduced a similar agent, Operator, in January 2025. Both aim to simplify online tasks like travel planning and booking, promising an end to manual form-filling. Open Computer Agent is open source for greater transparency and can be tested on Hugging Face's website.

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Hoteldata.ai veut doter les hôtels d’IA pour leur contenu marketing

📨 Hoteldata.ai, founded in 2024 by Wojciech Augustynowicz, offers tailored content solutions for hotels. Targeting independent hotels and small structures, it provides AI tools like Email Replier for Gmail and Outlook, Generative Content for personalized hotel descriptions, and Image Insight for photo analysis. The AI integrates with existing hotel systems, PMS, OTA listings, and booking platforms, generating personalized content and metadata, aiming to enhance customer experience, visibility, and reservation rates—all while ensuring GDPR compliance.

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NextTrip renfloué de 2,7 millions d’euros par son président

💸 NextTrip, a Santa Fe-based tech travel company, secured a $3 million credit line (€2.66 million) from its president to fund growth projects and operations for the next two years. The funds will finance marketing for new products and aid in developing recent high-end travel market acquisitions, including total control of OTA Five Star Alliance in April and the JOURNY TV streaming service. CEO Bill Kerby appreciates the president's support, emphasizing strategic priorities and shareholder value protection.

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En bref : cabines virtuelles, voyages accompagnés et identification sans en dire plus

📅 Google Wallet is set to integrate ZK-proofs for privacy-focused digital identity, first in the UK then the USA, with technology developed by Ligero and made open-source. Vitruvian Partners acquires Great Rail Journeys, a British travel company founded in 1973, from Duke Street, aiming to make it a global leader for senior travel. AmTrav incorporates ATPCO and Renacen's 3D cabin tours, with 83% of business travelers valuing 360° seat view before booking. Cloudbeds partners with STAAH to offer real-time data synchronization and enriched reporting for hotel management. Google Adsense ads for travel will now appear in AI search platform results, available to services like iAsk, founded in 2022.

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United Airlines mise sur Twelve pour ses carburants durables

✈ United Airlines Ventures invested in Twelve via its Sustainable Flight Fund, bolstering the startup which raised $85 million in Series C funding. Twelve's sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production facility in Moses Lake, Washington, to begin operation this year, producing 50,000 gallons of SAF annually. United previously invested $5 million in Viridos in 2023. Twelve has contracted to supply 260 million gallons of SAF over 14 years to IAG's five airlines, including British Airways and Iberia, starting in February 2024.

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La start-up indienne Routematic lève 35 millions d’euros pour transporter les employés

🚘 Routematic, an Indian corporate transport service, has raised 35 million euros in a Series C funding round led by Fullerton Carbon Action Fund and Shift4Good. The company aims to expand its fleet to over 10,000 vehicles, with 30% electric, by March 2026. The TaaS market in India is predicted to grow from $6.1 billion in 2024 to $13.2 billion by 2030, with an annual growth rate of 11.8%. Founded in 2013, Routematic operates in 23 cities and serves 300 companies, facilitating 5 million trips for 300,000 employees every month.

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Uber s’associe à WeRide pour déployer des taxis autonomes dans 15 villes

🚘 Uber partners with WeRide to launch autonomous taxi services in 15 new cities over the next five years, with an aim for deployment by 2030. The expansion focuses on Europe and will navigate diverse and stringent regulations, with varying degrees of autonomous vehicle acceptance, like France's 60km/h limit for level 3 autonomous vehicles on specific roads and Germany's allowance of such vehicles at 130km/h on highways. Previous collaboration between Uber and WeRide introduced autonomous vehicles in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

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