Are small tourism businesses lacking in best practice when it comes to the web?

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Ask anyone who has worked with a variety of tour and activity operators and they will probably tell you that there are as many ways of doing business as there are operators.

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Change is coming to travel technology, driven by access to data and eager developers

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Lest we forget, travel technology – for all its complexities and inherent challenges – is actually a vibrant sector and well mined by the independent developer community.

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Semantic web: context for the rest of us

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Semantic web and its impact on travel was the focus of the opening session of the OpenTravel Advisory Forum in sunny Miami

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OpenTravel tees up XML schema for golf and other pursuits

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And, you thought golf was all about enjoying the great outdoors with friends and figuring out how to avoid slicing the ball out of bounds and into nearby homes and roadways?

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Open AXIS Group and Google push open source but wait

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Does an open source standard or software become proprietary if developers have to wait to download them while they are available to others much earlier?

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Pocketvillage launches metasearch engine for tours and activities

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Potentially rather big news from ITB in Berlin last week in the tours and activities sector with the official launch of new metasearch service Pocketvillage.

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Datalex, OpenTravel gear up for optional services

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In fits and starts, travel tech companies and associations are gearing up to handle airline optional services.

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Standards –world peace! Now what?

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On Sept. 10, an auspicious day, a conflict that could have split the travel technology establishment was averted when OpenTravel and the Open AXIS Group agreed to collaborate.

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Rival standards groups Open AXIS and OpenTravel to cooperate

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Seemingly rival standards bodies, the recently arrived airline-run Open AXIS Group and decade-old OpenTravel signed a memorandum of understanding.

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Frontier, Everbread, Vayant join Open Axis — ITA Software on the sidelines

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Month-old standards body Open Axis Group picked up Frontier Airlines as a full member and air-search vendors Everbread and Vayant Travel Technologies as allied members — but ITA Software is looking on from the sidelines.

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