Travel Weekly Group Ltd

🏢 RateHawk celebrated nine years with a net booking value increase of 1.8 times and a 67% growth in bookings compared to 2023. Emerging Travel Group, its UAE-based parent company, reported a $3.7 billion gross transaction value in 2024, with RateHawk as a key contributor. Last year, RateHawk expanded its inventory to include over 120,000 directly contracted properties and over 2.6 million accommodation options. Transportation bookings doubled in 2024, and within three months of launching railway ticket services in Europe, over 25% of hotel booking travel professionals also used this service. The company doubled its API integration contracts in 2024, partnering with over 500 new entities, including Ctrip. RateHawk now supports 32 languages, opened a new Singapore headquarters, and saw a 50% increase in partners, reaching over 93,000 travel professionals. In the UK and Ireland, there was an 80% growth in net booking value year-over-year.

✈ American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) partnered with Finnair to offer NDC-enabled deals to corporate clients, with no surcharges on Finnair’s best available fares. Amex GBT’s NDC program has over 20 airline partners and has processed one million NDC tickets since January 2024 across 16 countries. The partnership aims to provide value and maintain travel program integrity through NDC technology.