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Hanover. TUI wants to completely unify its international distribution network and is working on its own global software on a cloud basis to achieve this. This was just announced by the boss.

Brussels. Under the leadership of their European umbrella organisation HOTREC, the hotel associations in Europe are conducting a joint and uniform survey on the core issues of hotel distribution for the fourth time. All hoteliers are invited to take part in the survey.

Paris/Southlake. The software and technology provider Sabre from Dallas and Accor have together created a unified reservation and property management platform for the more than 5,000 Accor hotels. In addition, Sabre is now moving its IT infrastructure completely into the Google Cloud. The goal: to create a marketplace for personalized travel in the long term, for all travelers.

Wiesbaden. Innovative, funny and scary things from the digital world. Today: Misleading Trivago / Byhours generates millions / Accor’s ALL grabs Grab / TrustYou grows significantly.

Hamburg. The German hotel group prizeotel abandoned payments in cash at the turn of the year. In 2019, payments in cash money were already way below 10% of the total turnover.

Brussels. Following EU action, Booking.com commits to align practices presenting offers and prices with EU law. Manipulative practices such as hiding sponsoring in ranking, unduly putting time pressure on users or misrepresenting rebates should then be a thing of the past.

Berlin. It will be a long time before the intelligent hotel room starts living. But it is already visible how smart humans grow together with their smart environment. And that includes smart hotels. Hotel operators are also pushing this development themselves.

Wiesbaden. Innovative, funny and scary things from the digital world. Today: The most popular German passwords / Digitalization stops rising construction costs / Delivery Hero takes over Woowa / IHG's digital room entertainment / Sparkasse accepts Apple Pay / Travel Startup Prize to Pincamp.

Augsburg. Innovative, funny and frightening things from the digital world. Today: Data leak at Accor subsidiary / The slightly different stay / TripAdvisor's first self-serve advertising platform / Federal Supreme Court checks Yelp / Billion euros for blockchain and AI / Booking.com expands genius rates / IHA marketplace for hotel software / Alexa becomes emotional.

Augsburg. Innovative, funny and frightening things from the digital world. Today: Request refunds digitally / Dispute resolution in the travel industry / More fairness for payment services / New investors for the digitization of the hotel experience / The power is with Microsoft / US court makes searching mobile devices more difficult / The digital status quo in the hospitality industry.