Amadeus Revamps Business Incubator to Discover Travel Tech’s Next Gen Products

Want personalized travel alerts sent to your WhatsApp? Need your biometric "keys" housed in a secure app? Or would you like your hotelier to digitally send you tips on which tours and activities to check out locally — once you can go on vacation again? These are some the questions Amadeus is asking. The Madrid-based company wants to expand the ways it makes money. So it has quietly unveiled Nexwave, a business incubator that pinpoints promising ideas and cultivates the company's next generation of products, Skift has learned. "The pandemic has highlighted how Amadeus can contribute to the travel industry by connecting the dots and making sure our industry can collaborate better in a systematic way," said Marion Mesnage, head of Nexwave. [caption id="attachment_342924" align="alignright" width="300"] Marion Mesnage, head of Nexwave. Source: Amadeus[/caption] Nexwave, a unit of slightly more than 100 employees, is incubating product features and functionalities. The aspirat