tnooz

What tnooz does

Tnooz is a privately held for-profit news website focused on travel technology, founded in 2009 and headquartered in Weston, United States. The firmographic profile indicates a small organization of 11-50 employees operating in the niche of B2B travel industry media and intelligence, covering developments in travel distribution, technology vendors, and the digital economy of travel. The website URL is registered as tnooz.com. The company is privately held with no IPO or public ticker, and no funding rounds, parent company, or ownership information are disclosed in the available data.

The bulk of substantive operational intelligence available pertains to PhocusWire, a closely adjacent travel technology media platform owned by Northstar Travel Group. PhocusWire provides daily editorial coverage, podcasts (In Phocus, How I Got Here), major industry events (Phocuswright Conference, Phocuswright Europe, Travel Marketing AI Summit, TravelTech Show), and research insights via Phocuswright. Its revenue model is built on advertising, sponsored content, event sponsorships, and conference registration, and it operates within a broader Northstar Travel Group family that includes Travel Weekly, Business Travel News, TravelPulse, and other B2B travel publications. The relationship between tnooz and PhocusWire—whether as predecessor, sibling brand, acquired property, or unrelated peer—is not clarified in the supplied data, which represents a significant intelligence gap. No company history, leadership team, financials, M&A activity, or strategic moves are disclosed for tnooz specifically.

Name

tnooz

Website

https://tnooz.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Weston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Advertising and Sponsorship: Digital advertising placements and sponsored content opportunities on the PhocusWire platform and newsletter
2. Partner Content / Sponsored Stories: Sponsored content from travel technology vendors and partners featured in the From Our Partners section
3. Event Sponsorships: Revenue from sponsorships and partnerships associated with PhocusWright Conference, PhocusWright Europe, Travel Marketing AI Summit, and TravelTech Show events

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels11 records

Core offering

Tnooz is a news website focused on travel technology, providing editorial coverage of the travel industry's digital transformation, distribution strategies, and emerging technology trends. The publication serves as an information resource for travel industry professionals, covering airlines, hotels, online travel agencies, metasearch, ground transportation, and other travel technology segments.

Product overview

PhocusWire is a travel technology news and media platform operated by Northstar Travel Group. It provides editorial coverage including news articles, interviews, podcasts (In Phocus, How I Got Here), events (Phocuswright Conference, Phocuswright Europe, Travel Marketing AI Summit, TravelTech Show), and research insights through Phocuswright. The platform features industry analysis across travel sectors including airlines, hotels, ground transportation, OTAs, and emerging startups.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Tnooz News Website

Quantifiable outcome

• Hot 25 Travel Startups program recognizing emerging companies annually since 2019

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Northstar Travel GroupcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPhocusWire is a brand owned by Northstar Travel Group, a leading B2B travel media company. The Northstar family includes multiple travel industry publications and events including BHN Group, Business Travel News, Incentive, Meetings & Conventions, The Beat, TravelAge West, TravelPulse, Travel Weekly, and TravelTech Show.

Scale indicators4 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Travel Weekly: Travel Weekly is one of the largest Northstar-owned travel trade publications, serving travel agents and the distribution ecosystem with news, data, and events (including the Global Travel Marketplace). While broader than tnooz's travel-tech focus, it competes for the same Northstar-syndicated advertising and event sponsorship dollars and operates the same news-plus-events revenue model.
• TravelPulse: TravelPulse is a Northstar Travel Group digital publication delivering travel news, trends, and supplier content to travel advisors and consumers. It overlaps with tnooz on the travel-tech and distribution editorial beat and shares the parent's advertising, newsletter, and event monetization stack.
• PhocusWire: PhocusWire is a B2B travel technology news publication operated by Northstar Travel Group from Rutherford, NJ — the same parent ecosystem that surrounds tnooz. It covers the identical travel-tech beat (airlines, OTAs, hotels, metasearch, ground transport, AI, distribution, payments) with news, research (Phocuswright), podcasts, and major conferences, making it the most directly comparable peer to tnooz.
• The Beat: The Beat is an airline-industry trade news publication owned by Northstar Travel Group alongside tnooz's parent. It targets travel industry professionals with daily news, analysis, and multimedia in the same B2B distribution model as tnooz, and serves as a same-portfolio sister title covering a narrower slice (airlines) of the broader travel-tech vertical tnooz addresses.
• Skift: Skift is an independent B2B media company focused on travel technology, distribution, and the digital economy — same core editorial beat as tnooz. It operates news, research (Skift Research), the Skift Forum events franchise, and a daily newsletter, and is widely regarded as the category-leading specialist publication in travel tech, competing for the same advertiser and audience pool as tnooz.
• HotelNewsNow (Hotel Online / STR): HotelNewsNow is a long-running B2B hospitality industry news and analysis site, originally part of STR (now under CoStar). It covers hotel technology, distribution, and operations — a meaningful adjacent slice of the travel-tech vertical that tnooz also serves — and monetizes via advertising, sponsored content, and events (HITEC).
• Business Travel News: Business Travel News (BTN) is a Northstar Travel Group B2B publication covering corporate travel technology, suppliers, and distribution — a vertical sibling to tnooz within the same parent. It sells advertising, sponsorships, and operates proprietary events (BTN Group) targeting travel managers and suppliers, mirroring the B2B ad/event revenue model tnooz relies on.

Broad incumbents

• Phocuswright: Phocuswright is the travel-industry research, events, and analyst arm of Northstar Travel Group — the same parent that owns tnooz and PhocusWire. While tnooz is editorial-first, Phocuswright sells premium research reports, market sizing, and flagship conferences (Phocuswright Conference, Phocuswright Europe) that command higher sponsorship and ticket revenue than a news-only property, making it the higher-value adjacent asset in the same ecosystem.

Regional players

• WebInTravel: WebInTravel is an Asia-Pacific-focused B2B travel-tech media outlet covering distribution, suppliers, and startups across APAC. It is run out of the same Northstar Travel Group portfolio as tnooz but serves primarily APAC travel industry professionals rather than tnooz's broader/global North American-leaning audience.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/tnooz
• Facebookfacebook.com/Tnooz
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/tnooz

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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