UAE’s Emerging Travel appoints new MD for RateHawk

UAE-based global travel tech company Emerging Travel Group has appointed Astrid Kastberg as Managing Director of RateHawk, its B2B booking platform for travel professionals across 120 countries. 

Kastberg joins RateHawk amid rapid expansion, with the platform scaling fast over the past few years, increasing its net booking value by 1.8 times in 2024 and growing global bookings by 67%, compared to 2023. 

In this newly introduced role, Kastberg is tasked with “maintaining that growth pace and consolidating the efforts of 500 commercial specialists within the B2B business unit”. 

Based in Dubai, Kastberg will lead RateHawk’s B2B division, overseeing commercial, product, marketing and support functions for a network that now includes more than 110,000 retail partners and 1,100 API partners across some 120 countries.