The travel industry has a tendency to enjoy bashing itself for everything poor and bad its sees happening, sometimes looking outside to bring a fresh perspective.
Three important things the travel industry can teach the world about APIs
December 19, 2011 By 11 Comments
Open APIs in travel need to grow up
December 14, 2011 By 6 Comments
Open APIs (those that are freely or cheaply and easily available) are great – the travel industry has a long and checkered past with proprietary access to information that has, as most here will argue, stifled innovation.
Travelport opens Developer Network scheme
November 10, 2011 By 1 Comment
Travelport is trying to meet the needs of third party IT specialists keen to access its data and services by opening up its Universal API programme to developers.
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Pocketvillage relaunches, creates tour and activity search API for third parties
November 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Germany-based tour and activity metasearch platform Pocketvillage is heading into the world of B2B this week with the unveiling of a dedicated API for third parties to plug into.
Why travel technology feels different in Asia
November 4, 2011 By 1 Comment
Lee Peng cut an anxious figure as he stood waiting to go on-stage in Singapore, preparing to showcase the winning entry for Tnooz’s latest THack.
Air New Zealand taps Viator enhanced API for destination activities
October 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Air New Zealand redesigned its websites and as part of the changes the airline is tapping into a new API from Viator for destination activities.
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Farelogix launches iflybags with frequent flyer calculations and API
October 17, 2011 By 4 Comments
Farelogix launched its fee-calculation website, iflybags.com, and the Airline Tariff Publishing Co. is offering an API for companies which want to integrate the airline baggage-fee data.
Social media considered valuable resource for data collection on new travel products
September 16, 2011 By 2 Comments
Interesting results from a survey conducted by EyeforTravel to identify trends in data sourcing shows the influence of social media when consider product strategy.
Travel technology shakedown – are APIs evil and is XML dead?
September 15, 2011 By 22 Comments
Developers grapple with data all the time, so the idea that someone might characterise data as “broken” is probably not going to take many aback.
Making the case for open APIs in travel [VIDEO]
June 16, 2011 By 4 Comments
There has been plenty of talk recently about the concept of freely available APIs in the travel industry, with many organisations making the seismic shift to become more open.
