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Amsterdam. The OTA Booking.com enters into an alliance with Hotelbird and draws hope from a current study on the desire to travel. On the other hand, an unreported data theft is annoying and expensive.

Berlin. More than 2,000 German hotels are jointly suing Booking.com. The German Hotel Association supports them in this.

Paris. Accor announced its first fully digital hotel in Northern Europe: the ibis Styles London Gloucester Road. However, there are still people at work behind the scenes who now have more time to interact with guests.

Vienna/Brussels. The "green passport" planned by the EU will be a certificate. The implementation was supposed to be in place by 1 June, now it is already pushing into the summer.

San Francisco. Starting this Tuesday, hotels around the world, big and small will be able to appear on Google's hotel booking link…free of charge. Although the gesture is "commendable", one can't help but wonder what the strategy is behind it.

Berlin. With its own "Hospitality Technology Hub", attended by 30 experts, revenue management specialist IDeaS sat down on Monday already ahead of the virtual ITB, which began on Tuesday and draws its tech topics until tonight. What's important in and after Corona? Booking on demand, finding the right leisure channels and being sensitive to guest preferences throughout the customer journey. Direct bookings are currently experiencing a massive boost.

Wiesbaden. As well as testing and vaccinating, track-and-trace is another essential tools to enable openings in tourism. But while discontent is growing over the German government's Corona Warning App, the Luca app is making news on the island of Sylt and in talk shows. It's even drawn attention from politicians. What makes Luca different?

Augsburg. Innovative, funny and frightening news from the digital world. Today: Super computers by 2030 / Digital business models mitigate Corona consequences? / Europe is becoming 5G-capable / Merger of NextGuest and Cendyn.

Brussels. Robots learn new tricks, secure supply chains and they have learned to interpret human gestures correctly. And Eunited has published a charter for future collaboration between robots and humans. The latest trends.

Berlin. Since the start of the pandemic, travellers have increasingly booked through new and more local booking channels. Or is that not the case? A specialist counters.