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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.

Brussels. EU laws are to limit the power of tech giants: On Tuesday, 15 December, the European Commission presented the legislative proposals for the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act. They are intended to regulate large platform operators in particular - such as Google, Facebook, Amazon or Apple - and prevent the abuse of their market power and unfair practices.

Berlin. In February 2020, Tristan Thom and Daniel Aseko founded the booking platform Myroom24, being an OTA for long-term stays in hotel rooms. After the pandemic outbreak, they are looking forward to cooperations with hotel brands such as Hilton, Holiday Inn, Rilano, InterContinental and Accor/Ibis in December 2020, moving on with plans for a Europe-wide expansion.

Augsburg. Innovative, funny and scary things from the digital world. Today: First robotaxis in China / Amex GBT buys tech start-up / App detects infected persons by cough sound / Self-disinfecting door handle / First German Hotel Technology Report / Booking.com loses in the ECJ.

Augsburg. Up until March 2020, it worked like a crystal ball; their forecasts were exact down to nearest percent. Then Covid-19 swept the forecast off the table. How do revenue managers predict occupancy and RevPAR? At the end of November, with decisions taken in many countries regarding Christmas and winter business, every hotelier knows: The near future remains unpredictable. Old data seems useless. Or is it? Data analysts, revenue managers, technology and AI experts show new ways to forecast.

Bern. "Lex Booking" in Switzerland is getting closer. On Wednesday, 11 November 2020, the Federal Council opened the consultation procedure - the preliminary stage to a hearing in the Federal Council on an amendment to the Federal Act against Unfair Competition. This paves the way for banning price parity clauses between online booking platforms and accommodation providers.