The year 2020 was really a shock for all the industries. The travel and hospitality trends were the highly affected among them. The hotel industry always took the technology disruptions as an opportunity to reassess and innovate their exist...
The year 2020 shook the entire corporate travel industry. With the global pandemic nearly every stakeholder—including suppliers, business travellers, business travel platforms, and travel managers had to rethink and reassess their old hab...
What is Google Vacation rentals? In 2018, Google redesigned its search experience for mobile and desktop hotels and began including vacation rentals in hotel search results. Later in March 2019, Google added a 'vacation rental' filter to...
Advertising through Google Hotel Ads helps you to meet new customers as they browse for hotels using Google. You boost the visibility of your hotel on Google, which increases the chance of new customers discovering and booking your hotel. ...
Across the world, countries are considering the use of ‘immunity passports. These are handed out to those who have recovered from COVID-19 for the purpose of travel. The passports would link a person’s identity to a coronavirus antibody...
As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the 32-year-old IT Professional is now operating remotely from her apartment in Bangalore; she avoids going to the gym by exercising at home and watching videos on her TV rather than going to the mov...
A transformation is under way in the travel industry as companies pivot from walking tours to 360 digital tours. An integral aspect of every walking tour is the sensory experience acquired when traversing the unique geography it inhabits...
Amazon is launching Amazon Explore, a new service that allows us to book live, interactive experiences led by local experts. Experiences may concentrate on imagination, learning DIY skills, taking virtual tours of distant places or cultural...
Chargeback may be a new term for all of you…But you all will be familiar with the concept. In essence, a chargeback is a refund made at the bank level. After a transaction is complete, the bank of a dissatisfied cardholder aggressively...
A world not depending on App stores for native applications…Yes it is on the way. Progressive Web Application is coming. Progressive Web Applications (PWA) takes advantage of the latest technologies to combine the best of web and mobile a...
Vafion has been offering API integration services exclusively to the hospitality industry. We also helped big organizations plan,build and manage their APIs. We have also supported some of the well-known hospitality sector players in ...
When a hotelier lists his properties on various platforms, such as Booking.com, Airbnb, HomeAway, TripAdvisor, etc., he needs to keep track of the bookings on these platforms. Manually doing so is a hectic thing if the number of OTA...
Travel and tourism industry creates more and more jobs. Developing tourism leads to more and more employment opportunities and greater economic growth. A staggering 10 percent of the world’s GDP lies in tourism. But still many tourist are...
Carpooling gets a modern day makeover with a set of wheels and wings: Airpooling is one of the most economical and practical solution. Aviation industry is one of the most affected due to COVID 19. The industry is in great need for a qui...
No travels…No bookings…No hotels…No vacation rental…No humans- All are staying home.... Covid-19 has turned most of the industries upside down. The worst affected are the travel and hospitality. Yes, it is a complete lockdown for t...
Everyone around you is talking big mouth on Docker, What is Docker really?Docker is a platform for developers and sysadmins to develop, ship, and run applications. Docker lets you quickly assemble applications from components and eliminates...
There are three different types of integration API implementation for any Vacation Rental system: Property Manager Import API Implementation: In this type of integration we used to fetch the property information from the Partner's syste...
As vacation rentals continue to grow in popularity, many people are wondering what all the fuss is about. To help out, we came up with few reasons on why choosing a vacation rental will be a better choice. #1. Hotelization of Vacati...
In this article, I have pointed and discussed about five features of Java 8 by which seems more interesting for me. Stream and other special features Lambda expressions Parallel operations JavaScript engine ...
Microservices Architecture This is one of the pattern languages used in the application development. A pattern language is a method of describing good design practices within a field of expertise. The Scale Cube This is the three dimen...
I would like to share some of my knowledge in Spark Java in this article. I will carry my article in a way of answering the following questions What, Why, Where,When and How ? With some code examples. I will cover the rest of the things in ...