Stephan Ekbergh

Stephan Ekbergh

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Stephan Ekbergh is a seasoned travel industry veteran and entrepreneur, having worked and invested in a number of travel companies and digital media businesses.

In 1997 he founded MrJet, Scandinavia's first transactional online travel company, before launching the TravelStart portfolio in 1999 - a business which sells travel in 11 countries and has offices in Sweden and South Africa, where Ekbergh now lives.

Ekbergh is a regular speaker on the travel industry circuit and blogs writes his own blog, Epic Business Life and Love Stories.

Five ways online travel agencies can get their Mojo back


Five ways online travel agencies can get their Mojo back

There’s lots of discussions going round, especially in the consulting circus about the future validity of OTAs.

Will they (we) be around in ten or even five years from now, and what will we look like?

Metasearch websites, Google, Bing Travel and other new intermediaries are slowly paralyzing our industry.

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Seven questions for the Virgins of Norway – known as Feel Air to most people


Seven questions for the Virgins of Norway – known as Feel Air to most people

FEEL Air recently announced the launch of a long-haul, no-frills, "feel-good" air service between Stockholm and Oslo to New York and Bangkok.

I had a talk to the chief executive and founder Kai Holmberg:

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Is it possible to crowdsource the airline industry?


Is it possible to crowdsource the airline industry?

The airline industry is in tailspin, hoping for a recovery some time maybe next year.

It will take years to make up for last year's losses. But it’s basically always the same story; losses in bad times wipe out the profits of previous fat years.

In good times the airline bosses get obese and act like there is no tomorrow.

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