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FCTG’s corporate travel transaction value grows 20% during Q1

By TBM Staff - Mumbai Friday, 17 November 2023, 12:00 PM 250

At the Annual General Meeting of Flight Centre Travel Group, some major business updates were issued to the Australian Securities Exchange. The company recorded AUD 6billion in the first quarter (1Q) Total Transaction Value (TTV), its second strongest start to a year and with corporate TTV again at record levels. During 1Q, TTV increased about […]Continue Reading

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Air India deploys AI-powered agent ‘Maharaja’ to answer customer queries

By TBM Staff - Mumbai Saturday, 11 November 2023, 12:00 PM 660

Air India has become the world’s first airline to have successfully deployed a Generative AI virtual agent, called ‘Maharaja’, powered by Azure OpenAI service. It has successfully answered over half a million customer queries since its pilot launch in March 2023, and it today manages over 6,000 queries a day in four languages. Air India’s […]Continue Reading

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Amadeus travel data reveals surge in flight demand for Taylor Swift & Coldplay concerts in Asia Pacific

By TBM Staff - Mumbai Tuesday, 3 October 2023, 4:00 PM 943

Taylor Swift’s highly anticipated Asia Pacific tour has caused a sensation among music fans, and the impact is not limited to the entertainment industry. Recent data analysis by Amadeus reveals that the cities hosting significant concerts are experiencing noteworthy surges in travel search. Amadeus data researchers examined travel search data and identified an Continue Reading

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Railways earn over INR 2,800cr in 7yrs with revised child travel norms: RTI

By TBM Staff - Mumbai Thursday, 21 September 2023, 1:00 PM 474

Indian Railways has earned an additional revenue of more than INR 2,800 crore from child travellers in the last seven years by revising child travel fare norms, an RTI response has found. The response from the Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) under the Right to Information (RTI) Act further indicates that the financial year […]Continue Reading

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India maintains top tourism source market position for Sri Lanka

By TBM Staff - Mumbai Monday, 7 August 2023, 9:30 AM 611

India has maintained the top spot as a source market for tourism in Sri Lanka. As per data released by the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority, tourist arrivals from India have crossed 1 lakh 39 thousand in the current year so far. This translates to over 18 per cent market share out of 7.67 lakh […]Continue Reading

Data of 30 mn railway users compromised, personal details on dark web

By TBM Staff - Mumbai Thursday, 29 December 2022, 11:00 AM 534

According to a Business Standard report, in what could be the biggest data breach of a government entity’s digital assets till date, the personal details of nearly 30 million railway users have been put on sale on the dark web by a hacker. These details include name, email, phone number, gender, and other personal information […]Continue Reading

FCTG’s corporate travel transaction value grows 20% during Q1

Air India deploys AI-powered agent ‘Maharaja’ to answer customer queries

Amadeus travel data reveals surge in flight demand for Taylor Swift & Coldplay concerts in Asia Pacific

Railways earn over INR 2,800cr in 7yrs with revised child travel norms: RTI

India maintains top tourism source market position for Sri Lanka

Data of 30 mn railway users compromised, personal details on dark web

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