Category: Travel and Hospitality

Travel and hospitality has been greatly impacted by the pandemic: an industry that has already been preparing for long-term transformation. The AWS Travel and Hospitality practice is keenly aware of this and remains customer-focused and long-term oriented as many challenges can only be addressed with technology and transformation. Today we are announcing the AWS Travel and […]

I have looked forward to participating in AWS re:Invent for many years, the annual cloud computing conference hosted by Amazon Web Services in Las Vegas for 60,000 attendees for some time. While the Vegas-based conference will be virtual this year, I find myself even more excited, as it now means that all who wish to […]

I fell in love with the airline industry with my first position with United Airlines, a year or so before the launch of Star Alliance. I love the complexity of the industry, and all the things that have to “go right” for a plane to push back from the gate, arrive safely at its destination, […]

Resiliency and agility. While it’s what most companies strive for, the reality for many accommodation and lodging companies is that 2020 has been a year that focused more on enduring. But as the year draws to a close, there’s still time to lay the foundation for future growth. And, while re:Invent 2020 is a terrific […]

  PathSpot provides the travel and hospitality industry a hygiene management system designed to protect businesses and their customers from contaminants and ensure effective and frequent handwashing. PathSpot has raised over $10M in venture funding to date, most recently a $6.5M Series A led by Valor Siren Ventures. PathSpot has been featured as one of […]

            — AWS re:Invent is always one of the most exciting and important technology events of the year and this year, several sessions will be must-sees for travel and hospitality executives. AWS re:Invent routinely fills several Las Vegas venues with standing-room only crowds, but this year we are bringing it […]

This post is authored by Jihwan Ko who served as an MBA intern for the AWS Travel and Hospitality team with a focus on the casino segment. — As with nearly every other industry around the world, the global pandemic has adversely affected all segments of the travel and hospitality business. In the casino-resort segment, […]

Majority of the global trade happens at sea: the ocean shipping industry is at the core of the global economy, yet still enjoying a lower level of digitization. In this post we will review how companies in this vertical can take advantage of cloud computing to transform their business. Cloud computing can deliver value to […]

This post is authored by Brian Lewis, CTO of OpenJaw Technologies. — OpenJaw was founded in 2002, after which we followed what could be considered a traditional trajectory for any early 2000s travel tech solution provider. It developed software and secured customers who then ran those solutions in data centres managed by themselves or their […]

Jane Sun, CEO of Trip.com Group Ltd., joins David Peller, Managing Director of AWS Travel and Hospitality, for a broad-ranging discussion about the recent disruption faced by travel and hospitality companies – and her company’s response to that disruption. Trip.com Group, a NASDAQ listed company since 2003 (NASDAQ: TCOM) has over 44,000 employees and over […]