Northstar Travel Group Acquires Tnooz

Northstar Travel Group, the parent company of Northstar Meetings Group, has acquired travel technology news brand Tnooz and its related assets as part of a plan to further accelerate development of Phocuswright's PhocusWire travel industry research media property. 

Tnooz will be merged with PhocusWire over the course of remaining months of 2018, with its content archive, many of its products and editorial focus on online travel and travel technology remaining. 

The acquisition is another signal of the rapid impact on the travel, tourism and hospitality sector that PhocusWire has achieved in the 12 months since its launch at the Phocuswright Conference 2017, the premier conference for senior executives across the travel technology industry. 

"Over the past nine years, Tnooz has developed a large following of travel leaders through strong and consistent editorial coverage of the most important topics impacting the travel technology ecosystem," said Pete Comeau, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Phocuswright. "We are excited to welcome the Tnooz readers and commercial partners to PhocusWire as we build the strongest and most targeted audience eager to understand how technology impacts all facets of today's travel industry."

Tnooz was founded in 2009 and became an important leader in coverage of the online travel business, including the pioneering of early industry hackathons and the profiling of hundreds of industry startups.

"We are very excited to merge Tnooz into PhocusWire under the leadership of our editor-in-chief, Kevin May," said Bob Sullivan, president of the travel group at NTG. "We are confident that the loyal audience and partners of both brands will be very pleased with the results as these two leading travel news brands join forces."