Lots of ideas were floated at the annual Datalex User’s Conference in Dublin last week, as a roomful of consultants, airlines, distributors, and technology providers talked about airline merchandising perhaps coming-of-age.
Applying semantic search and ontology to the travel industry
May 20, 2011 By 13 Comments
The TED Conference produces many exceptional ideas and the one by Rory Sutherland explaining “intangible value” could be a beacon for the travel industry.
THack Vegas – more hacker presentations
May 2, 2011 By 1 Comment
Alongside the winner PocketVillage and runner-up Kijubi, three other participants took part in THack Vegas earlier this week. Here are their presentations.
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Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire aka The Travel Industry
April 28, 2011 By 1 Comment
Can the modern travel industry be compared to a classic 1950s movie starring Marlon Brando?
THack Vegas – PocketVillage scoops top prize
April 27, 2011 By 5 Comments
German metasearch site for tours and activities PocketVillage won first place at THack Vegas, combining five APIs to create a mobile-based destination product platform.
Viva Las Vegas – THack heads to the desert
March 28, 2011 By
Tnooz and the OpenTravel Alliance are partnering to produce the second THack at the OTA’s gathering of travel companies and developers in Las Vegas in April.
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Multiple technology standards in travel – an oxymoron to overcome
February 22, 2011 By 7 Comments
An industry with multiple standards bodies using the same type of technology addressing the same business functions could be seen as an indication of an industry in some disarray.
Two groups promoting standards in travel technology is A Good Thing for everyone
July 26, 2010 By 2 Comments
Today’s travel industry demands innovation to compete and the addition of Open Axis will not result in different standards, but will dovetail with OpenTravel Alliance to enhance the industry’s ability to react.
American Airlines to stay member of OpenTravel
July 14, 2010 By 3 Comments
There are no apparent signs of an airline exit from OpenTravel now that six major US airlines have formed their own XML standards group, Open AXIS Group.
