Alex writes about travel technology, travel startups, specialist tour operators and the tours & activities sector. He has previously led ecommerce, social media and reservation system projects for airlines, leading mainstream tour operators and hotel distribution companies in both leisure and business travel sectors.

He is the CEO of TourCMS, a web based software-as-a-service reservation system and distribution platform used by many specialist tour operators worldwide to take online bookings and distribute to 3rd parties.

He also moderates Small Fish Big Ocean, a community that welcomes small tour operators and niche travel agents to come and discuss travel ecommerce issues. Alex has a computing degree, is passionate about usability, speaks French and still writes and reviews code.

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Alex Kremer is chief operating officer and co-founder at Flextrip, a tours and activities marketplace API servicing travel companies.

Alex is a 15 year veteran of technology startup companies, previously co-founding Cruvee, a business intelligence company for the wine industry where he led Business Development.

Prior to that, he co-founded FanAxis, one of the world's first fan club management and merchandising firms in the music and entertainment industries.

Alex began his career at 16 by founding Onlink, an early innovator in virtualized server technologies for the web hosting industry. Alex is based in Boulder, Colorado.

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Claude is a consultant and seasoned Travel 2.0 blogger hailing from Marseille, France. Claude started his career in tourism as a technical sales manager for a Marseille-based tour operator.

He then spent six years as a sales executive at Louvre Hotels group, before discovering the tremendous potential of the internet for the marketing of hotels and tourism.

Claude then became the sales and marketing manager for a regional booking engine for the Marseille Chamber of Commerce and DMO’s.

He now handles consulting and training for hotels and other DMOs. Claude manages his blog HoteliTour.

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Daniele Beccari is co-founder and CEO of TargetHub, a startup using mobile and data to change the way people travel.

A travel technology strategist focusing on product innovation with global industry players, he also served as VP Europe at Isango, a global travel experiences aggregator. Previously he was head of global product marketing at the e-commerce division of Amadeus.

He started his career with the internet appliances R&D division of HP, working on e-mail client devices, web tablets and internet refrigerators... in 1995!

An MBA graduate from INSEAD (France), Daniele can be found somewhere between Paris, London, Turin, San francisco or Tokyo. Daniele's views are his alone and not necessarily the views of his clients.

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Dennis Schaal is North American editor for Tnooz.

He is a freelance journalist who has written about online travel agencies, supplier websites, metasearch, user-generated content and technology for a decade.

Dennis previously filled a variety of roles at Travel Weekly (US), including technology editor, business travel editor and Tech Beat columnist.

He was editor of Travelweekly.com and sister publication Travel Management Daily.

A passionate blogger and muckraker, Dennis created the Dennis Schaal Blog: Online Travel Riffs and Notes, and also writes the Digital Traveler column for USA Today.

He has a BS degree in journalism from Boston University.

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Evan Konwiser was co-founder of FlightCaster, which was acquired by Next Jump in December 2010. Currently, he works with travel start-ups and consults on new technology and trends in the travel industry.

He started FlightCaster in 2009 to provide better tools for travelers using advanced technology. After the acquisition, he managed Next Jump's travel distribution business, which includes employee discount programs for Fortune 500 companies. Prior to FlightCaster, Evan was a consultant at Bain & Company and he also spent time at Kayak.

He's an industry blogger and speaker on both consumer and corporate travel topics, and recipient of PhoCusWright's first ever Young Leadership Award. Evan currently resides in San Francisco, where he hikes, bikes, and skis whenever he's not on a plane or rooting for his hometown Yankees.

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Fred Lalonde is the founder and chief executive of Hopper and also chairman of Tnooz.

Previously, Fred was a vice president at Expedia, running product planning for Hotels and Packages for Expedia.com.At Expedia he also participated in various M&A activities, including the acquisitions of Hotels.com, TripAdvisor, and eLong.

Prior to Expedia, Fred co-founded Newtrade Technologies, which grew to become one of the world’s largest connectivity platforms for the hospitality market after it was acquired by Expedia in 2002.

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Glenn Gruber is AVP travel technologies at Ness Software Product Labs, a unit of Ness Technologies, responsible for developing the company’s strategy and solutions for the travel industry.

The company has more than 60 product labs operating with many leading software companies and platform operators including Amadeus, OpenText, PayPal, Navteq, Chordiant, and Quintiles.

Prior to Ness, Glenn was AVP strategic marketing at Symphony Services. He also held leadership roles at Kyocera and Israeli startups Power Paper Ltd. and Golden Screens Interactive Technologies. He also writes a personal blog, Software Industry Insights.

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Josiah Mackenzie works as director of business development at ReviewPro to provide hotel executives with customer insights and business intelligence through online reviews and social media analytics.

ReviewPro reporting provides valuable insight for action in the areas of marketing and PR, quality & operations, sales, revenue & distribution.

By moving social media engagement from a marketing tactic to an operational tool, they are changing the way the hospitality industry can use and profit from the social web.

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Kevin May is editor of Tnooz. He joined as a co-founder in August 2009 after spending nearly four years as editor of UK-based business publication Travolution.

Passionate about the business of travel and the internet, Kevin played a major role in establishing Travolution in print, online, events and with an annual awards programme, as well as becoming a regular speaker and moderator at industry events.

Prior to Travolution, Kevin was web editor at Media Week (UK) and also worked in regional newspapers for two years at the Essex Enquirer. He started his career in journalism at the Police Gazette at New Scotland Yard in London.

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Linda Fox is Europe reporter for Tnooz. For the past six years she has worked as a freelance journalist across a range of B2B titles including Travolution, ABTA Magazine, Travelmole and the Business Travel Magazine.

In this time she has also undertaken corporate projects for a number of high profile travel technology, travel management an research companies.

Prior to her freelance career she covered hotels and technology news for Travel Trade Gazette for seven years.

Linda joined TTG from Caterer & Hotelkeeper where she worked on the features desk for more than five years.

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Martin Collings is currently employed as Vice President, Market Development for MasterCard, based in Sydney. In this role he covers Australia and New Zealand with commercial responsibility for the MiGS card not present gateway, plus some of the newer platform services.

He also manages selected initiatives covering innovation, mobile payments and emerging e-commerce payments products.

Prior to MasterCard, Martin Collings spent six years with Amadeus IT Group, based in both Madrid and Chicago in a variety of airline roles, most recently as head of airline e-commerce sales for the Americas.

During his time at Amadeus he also wrote the Shearwater Blog covering various topics of interest for airline selling via direct channels. The views of Martin Collings are his alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views of MasterCard.

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Patrick Landman is the founder and CEO of Xotels. This hotel management group assists independent hotels with revenue management, online marketing and internet distribution strategies.

They offer outsourcing services, coaching, consulting and training. In his blog, Patrick challenges hoteliers to think out of the box and not to accept the established order.

Through a passionate drive for growth and improvement he brings creative tips, ideas and best practices to the table that can help hotels drive up their bottom line.

In previous roles he has helped to develop businesses like RateTiger and Hotels.com into industry leaders. 

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Sarah Kennedy Ellis is director of Sabre Travel Studios at Sabre Holdings.

At Sabre since 2006, Sarah has worked across a number of divisions from leisure packaging and strategy to media marketing and supplier creative services.

She is a member of Tnooz’s Gen-Y Collective and also maintains a blog on emerging media trends, talent retention, and travel industry topics.

The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of Sabre Holdings, its partners, customers or subsidiaries.

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Siew Hoon Yeoh is the editor-at-large for SHY Ventures and editor/producer of WIT-Web In Travel.

She created and manages the travel insider website The Transit Cafe and also runs WIT - Web In Travel, Asia’s leading travel distribution, marketing and technology conference, and the weekly WIT newsletter.

In 2008, WIT was awarded the Most Innovative Marketing Initiative by the Singapore Tourism Board. Siew Hoon is also an established speaker and facilitator at travel industry conferences and workshops.

She is also is a published author, having written titles including “Truth, Lies & Other Stuff” and “Around Asia in 1 Hr: Tales of Condoms, Chillies & Curries”.

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Stephen Joyce has been working as a travel and tourism technology consultant since 1995.Stephen is the CEO of Rezgo.com, a cloud based software as a service reservation and booking platform for tour and activity providers.

Stephen is the Board Chair of the OpenTravel Alliance and is also a member of the Distribution panel for the Adventure Travel Trade Association.

Stephen is a graduate of Capilano University, is a certified commercial pilot, and holds a certificate in IT Management. His personal blog is the Travel & Tourism Technology Trends.

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Tim Hughes is an online travel industry executive who has been blogging since June 2006 at the Business of Online Travel (the BOOT).

The BOOT covers analysis of online travel industry trends, consumer and company behaviour and broader online/web activity of interest to online travel companies (with a bias towards Tim’s home markets of Asia and Australasia and with the odd post on consuming and loving travel thrown in).

In late-2010 the BOOT clocked its 1,000th post, 200,000th visitor and 300,000th page view.In his work life he is the CEO of Getaway Lounge - a premium travel deal site based in Australia.

Tim has worked for both Orbtitz and Expedia. Prior to the travel industry Tim was a commercial lawyer and venture capitalist. Tim’s views are his alone and not necessarily the views of Getaway Lounge or any of its investors.

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Timothy O'Neil-Dunne is managing partner at travel consultancy firm, T2Impact. He serves as the lead for the airline, aviation and airport practice. He is also a Co-founder of VaultPAD an accelerator devoted exclusively to travel and travel-related startup businesses.

Timothy was a founding management team member of the Expedia team where he headed the ground transportation and international portfolios, before founding T2Impact in 1998.

He has worked in aviation and travel distribution for more than 30 years, including time with Worldspan as head of technology where he managed international technology services from product to infrastructure.

He is also CTO and deputy CEO of Lute Technologies, a permanent advisor to the World Economic Forum and writes on the T2Impact Blog.

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Troy Thompson, a self-described technopologist, is a respected blogger, consultant and thought-leader in the tourism/travel marketing industry.

Owner and consultant at Travel 2.0 Consulting, Troy has been providing unique interactive and marketing solutions to a variety of clients for more than a decade.

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Valyn Perini is an experienced travel professional with more than fifteen years in operations, sales and marketing, systems, consulting, and software development in the hospitality and travel industry.

As chief executive of the OpenTravel Alliance, she oversees the operations of the organization, including developing and executing strategies to reach the goal of standardized electronic distribution of travel and traveler information.

Her travel career includes stints with InterContinental, Westin and Swissôtel, with PricewaterhouseCoopers as a travel technology consultant, and as the director of product strategy for Newmarket International.

Originally from Atlanta, Valyn now lives in Boston.

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