Innovation

🛫 Kayak for Business, on July 16, announced a global partnership with HQ Travel to integrate terrestrial transport booking and management solutions for companies worldwide. This collaboration provides access to HQ's SummitGround platform, featuring 1,500 verified suppliers in over 100 countries. Administrators can now manage bookings, expenses, and carbon emissions on a single dashboard. This aims to enhance cost control and policy compliance for business travel, offering a seamless global travel experience.

🚀 SkyDrive will showcase its eVTOL SD-05 at Expo 2025 in Osaka, with demonstrations starting July 31 and continuing until August 24, 2025. The taxi, awaiting certification, accommodates two passengers, reaches up to 500m altitude, and speeds of 100 km/h. It can also travel up to 60 km/h on roads for 20-30 km. SkyDrive's goal is to position itself as a leader in future mobility, supported by investors like Suzuki Motor Corporation and JR East.

🚗 Motor AI, founded in 2017 in Berlin, recently secured €20 million in funding from Segenia Capital, eCAPITAL, and prominent German investors. This funding will expedite the global deployment of their Autonomous Driving Software Stack. The start-up aims to double its workforce and gain European and German regulatory approval by 2026. Their technology uniquely combines AI with traditional control models, ensuring safe autonomous driving that aligns with European transparency and traceability standards.

📈 Google recently introduced AI Overview, an AI-based feature providing detailed search responses. This system impacts hotels, especially in information-based queries. Traditional search results persist for transactional searches like "hotels in Venice." AI Overview may reduce organic traffic and visibility for hotels, but offers opportunities if content is high-quality and niche. To benefit, optimize SEO, update Google Business profiles, and use a multichannel strategy to enhance online presence and attract targeted traffic.

💸 Selon une étude de 2025 par Jumio, 44% des voyageurs aux États-Unis, Royaume-Uni, Singapour et Mexique ne se sentent pas protégés contre les fraudes facilitées par l'IA lors de la réservation de vacances. 74% des 8001 participants sont prêts à des étapes d’authentification supplémentaires. La méfiance résulte de fuites de données chez Booking.com, Qantas et Hertz, et d'un manque de confiance dans la gestion des données personnelles lors des réservations.

📚 Londres, 2025: Le Musée Impérial de la Guerre utilise l'IA générative de Google Cloud et Capgemini pour retranscrire et traduire 20,000 heures d'archives sonores de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Ce projet, sous la supervision d'experts, vise une précision de 99%. Il facilite l'accès aux chercheurs et au public via un assistant conversationnel. Le lancement sur le web est prévu pour fin 2025, et c'est la première initiative de ce type au Royaume-Uni.

🚗 Uber and Baidu announced a strategic partnership on July 15, 2025, to integrate Baidu's Apollo Go autonomous taxis into Uber's platform. The agreement aims to deploy driverless vehicles starting in Asia and the Middle East by the end of 2025. This collaboration marks a significant step in Uber's expansion of autonomous solutions, adding to its partnerships with companies like Waymo and WeRide. The initiative will enable global access to autonomous driving technology.

📈 Frenchospitality (FH) reduces IT costs by 75% with eviivo, dropping from 4% to 1% of annual revenue. On July 15, 2025, in Paris, FH selected eviivo to centralize operations, boosting direct bookings by 35% and saving up to €9,000 monthly per 40-room hotel. The flexibility of eviivo’s payment system saves 1% per transaction. FH's expansion includes Paris and Europe, with properties like 1.75 Paris and Montmartre Paris Suite.

🌐 Civitatis, a global player in tourism bookings, envisions AI enhancing human expertise without replacing it. Arturo Moreno, Chief Strategy & Data Officer, emphasizes that AI supports but doesn’t substitute human qualities like intuition and judgment. While AI can handle 40% of customer requests, human expertise remains crucial for satisfaction and managing unexpected situations. Civitatis advocates a hybrid experience, leveraging AI for efficiency while maintaining personal connections to enhance the quality of travel services.

🛫 En mai 2025, startups européennes de Travel & Mobility Tech surpassent les américaines en fonds VC. 2025 voit les investisseurs américains investir plus en Europe, représentant désormais un tiers des financements, contre moins d'un quart il y a deux ans. Travel & Mobility Tech attire 2,9 milliards de dollars au premier trimestre 2025. 30% des investissements se dirigent vers la deeptech, tandis que la climtech ne représente que 15% des fonds.