One of the best airlines in the world is considering asking business-class passengers to bring their own cutlery on board, the travel news site View From The Wing reported.
02.04.2024 - 20:55 / skift.com / Asia Pacific / Dennis Schaal / Johannes Thomas / Matthias Tillmann / Axel Hefer
Trivago has brought back a key executive from its December 2016 IPO – there are now four leaders from the old guard running the Germany-based hotel metasearch outfit.
Robin Harries became chief financial officer Monday. Trivago credited Harries with playing “a vital role” in Expedia Group’s 2012 investment in and eventual acquisition of Trivago, as well as “driving its global expansion in Asia Pacific.”
Trivago characterized the hire as the “completion of its leadership changes.”
Those changes began nearly a year ago when CEO Axel Hefer left the company, and Johannes Thomas took the reins as managing director and CEO.
The four executives had left in 2020, and have returned over the past year to reinvigorate the business. In addition to Thomas and Harries, Andrej Lehnert is chief product officer, and Jasmine Ezz is chief marketing officer.
Trivago had a $4 billion market cap went it went public in December 2016; its market cap Tuesday was under $200 million.
Harries replaced Matthias Tillmann, who joined Trivago a few months before the IPO, but resigned last October. Trivago said at the time that Harries would be designated a member of the company’s management board if he wins approval at an annual shareholder meeting this year.
“In addition to our shared goal of revitalizing Trivago and driving growth, my focus will be to bolster strategic decision-making with financial insights to empower our teams and build trust with investors,” Harries said in a statement.
Much of Trivago’s future hinges on an AI-driven ad campaign that kicked off in December in several countries around the world, and a brand refresh.
One of the best airlines in the world is considering asking business-class passengers to bring their own cutlery on board, the travel news site View From The Wing reported.
Amsterdam has desperately been trying to shake off its ‘party capital’ image - with limited success.
The 2023 Miami Grand Prix proved to be the pivotal race in Max Verstappen’s dominant and historic performance en route to securing his third World Drivers’ Championship title. The Dutch driver started from P9, while his Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez started from pole. Verstappen sliced his way through the pack, as if in a different formula category. With nine laps remaining, he emerged from the pits and not only closed a 1.8-second gap to Perez but passed him and put another five seconds into the Mexican driver before taking the checkered flag. What we didn’t realize at the time was that Verstappen would proceed to win every remaining race of the 2023 F1 season, save for a glitch in the Red Bull matrix that was Singapore.
Over the past 100 years of shuttling people around the globe in metal flying machines, the world's aviation network has grown into a vast web of intersecting routes that connect nearly every corner of the globe.
It'll be two decades before the next total solar eclipse hits the US.
Easily reached by ferry from its famous island neighbors and a quick 40-minute flight from Athens, the Greek island of Paros has been a relatively secret retreat for those in the know. But in the last few years, fashionistas and the rich and famous started visiting its lovely beaches and bougainvillea-covered fishing villages, and the island quickly became the chilled-out alternative to Mykonos and Santorini.
With additional reporting by Sarah Allard
The backpack is an ideal accessory for travel but in many cases function overrules form with sturdy zippers, industrial strength fabrics, and cheerless colorways. Designers and luggage producers have sensed this disparity and now customers can find a range of cool offerings—backpacks that get the job done but don’t scream “I’m going hiking today.” These are some of the travel world’s top options for both style and substance.
A 420-mete white steel tube running alongside a railway line in the windswept northern Netherlands could usher in a new era in the transportation of people and freight.
Even as Dutch entrepreneur Alex Mulder found success as part of a diversified investment firm, he always kept the idea of giving back. And so, when he and his colleagues at the parent company of the hospitality upstart Pillows Hotels saw that a historic property in his childhood neighborhood on the east side of Amsterdam was for sale—one with a hotel permit already attached to it—he went for the opportunity.
All products featured on Condé Nast Traveler are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
This Saturday, April 8, a solar eclipse will be seen across North America. From inside a 115-mile-wide path stretching across Mexico, the U.S., and Canada, a total solar eclipse will see the sun’s corona glimpsed with the naked eye for a few minutes as a “supermoon” covers all of the sun.