Hugo Pellegrin, auteur/autrice sur Le 10 Minutes Hôtelier - Page 28

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Avec son programme “eSport ready”, Radisson veut attirer les gamers

🎮 Radisson partners with Spacefwd to launch "esport ready" program across 100 hotels, providing private gaming rooms, secure storage, flexible hotel service access, and internet connectivity at 500 Mbps. The esport market, potentially reaching $13.7 billion by 2032, attracts both professional players and fans, with events like Paris Games Week 2024 drawing 180,000 visitors and the Worlds 2024 finals bringing in 20,000. With an estimated 600 million esport viewers by 2025, Radisson's initiative taps into a growing trend, including hotels in Cologne, Antwerp, Galway, Copenhagen, Delhi, and Bangkok.

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L’OTA Exoticca lève 25 millions d’euros pour développer des solutions d’IA

💰 Exoticca secured an additional €25 million from BBVA Spark, completing a Series D funding round initiated in July 2024 with €60 million. The total funds raised amount to €85 million, to be used for expanding into the North American market, where it already makes over 75% of its revenue, and for integrating AI into its solutions to enhance connectivity and streamline online travel booking experiences.

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Comment Airbus et Safran exploitent l’IA pour la maintenance aéronautique

🛩 Airbus and Safran leverage AI to enhance aircraft design, manufacturing, and maintenance. With Safran's use of AI, productivity increased by 80%, part shortages decreased by 73%, and on-time deliveries rose by 15%. The EU AI Champions initiative, including 60 European groups like Lufthansa, aims to establish Europe as an AI leader, calling for simplified regulations. However, Europe's commitment to transparency, reliability, and ethics in AI development is emphasized as crucial for differentiation in the global market.

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Speakspots facilite la planification de budget de voyages avec l’IA

💸 Speakspots introduced Smart Budget, an AI-powered travel budget planning tool, aiming to help travelers manage expenses by comparing their budget with real-time market trends. Users receive personalized recommendations to book at the best dates and prices. Smart Budget analyzes flight, accommodation, and activity data to suggest strategic adjustments for savings, utilizing data from Skyscanner, Booking.com, Viator, GetYourGuide, and Civitatis, offering time savings and financial optimization for travel planning.

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L’Europe peut-elle devenir leader de l’intelligence artificielle industrielle ?

💻 French President Emmanuel Macron announced a 109 billion euro investment plan for AI development on the eve of the IA Action Summit in Paris, February 10-11. Arno Pons, General Secretary of Digital New Deal think tank, highlights the significance, comparing it to a proportional 500 billion euro investment in the US based on population. Macron's strategy follows a 7-year effort to establish a favorable AI ecosystem in France, aiming to create a third digital way with India, emphasizing the importance of European alignment. The investment aims to foster an ecosystem where businesses can collaborate with startups and large groups in the AI economy, positioning Europe as a leader in trusted, transparent, and reliable AI for industrial critical systems, differentiating from the US consumer market approach.

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Ask Mona et OpenAI font parler les statues et fontaines du Château de Versailles

🗿 Ask Mona, OpenAI, and the Château de Versailles partnered to provide interactive experiences with 20 statues and fountains using a QR code for real-time conversations starting spring 2025. The interface uses OpenAI's Realtime for instant voice interactions, with Ask Mona databases ensuring response reliability. This cultural experience, revealing historical anecdotes and secrets, runs until winter 2025.

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Taxi volant : Vertical Aerospace lève 90 millions de dollars

🚀 Vertical Aerospace secured a $90 million funding round, exceeding the initial target of $75 million due to high investor demand. Over $60 million came from new investors while Mudrick Capital contributed $25 million. The funds will be used for R&D, testing, and certification capabilities enhancement, with operational expense increases projected for the second half of 2025. The company, aiming for VX4 eVTOL certification by 2028, appointed aerospace veteran Dómhnal Slattery as board chairman.

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Swifty, l’assistant IA de Lufthansa peut réserver des vols dans Line

🚀 Lufthansa Innovation Hub integrates AI travel assistant Swifty into the Line messaging app for Japanese customers in 2023, offering flight bookings for Lufthansa Group airlines. Swifty, accelerated by Lufthansa's startup program, handles business travel tasks—planning, booking, payment, and billing via chat interface. It's based on GPT-4 and marks the first development phase of an autonomous AI assistant. Customers can book Austrian Airlines, Lufthansa, and Swiss International Air Lines flights through Swifty using chat or voice messages.

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WhatsApp débarque dans les fiches Google My Business

📱 WhatsApp, with 2 billion active users as of 2020 (Statista), now allows travel professionals to display their WhatsApp contact channel directly on their Google My Business listings. This integration enables travelers to access WhatsApp channels from the Google listings of hotels, travel agencies, restaurants, or museums. To add WhatsApp to a Google business listing, one must edit the listing's information, select "Chat," then "WhatsApp," and provide a phone number or WhatsApp URL. Google is gradually rolling out this feature in Europe and will offer performance metrics to professionals.

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Cocohop : la puissance de l’IA et du collaboratif pour personnaliser les offres de voyage

📝 Cocohop, launched in beta after co-development with travel industry professionals, leverages artificial intelligence and collaborative tools for personalized travel offerings. Entrepreneurs Vincent and Molina Paulin aim to end standardized packages. The platform connects travel agents, DMCs, and travel planners, facilitating collaboration, communication, and customization of trips using a database with millions of tourist interest points. Users can interact, vote, and select trip components, with AI automating planning, generating travel booklets and quotes, and a conversational agent assisting professionals. Cocohop is collaborative, allowing customization and direct client engagement, and utilizes Google's Gemini AI for data enrichment and multilingual translations. Subscription fees range from €29 to €99 per month during the beta phase until June 2025, with bespoke packages for larger tourism entities. Cocohop aims to become the default travel organization solution, promoting local and responsible tourism, and plans to expand its professional network and AI solutions to personalize travel further.

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