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.
Change is coming to travel technology, driven by access to data and eager developers
July 9, 2012 By 23 Comments
Mozio tries to soften the hardest part of the journey — airport to hotel
June 15, 2012 By 9 Comments
Right on time, like a shuttle bus arriving at the hotel with punctuality, US-based startup Mozio sets out to be an airport transportation search engine, enabling travelers to efficiently navigate their transit choices from the airport to the hotel using varying modes of transportation and doing so like a local.
Three important things the travel industry can teach the world about APIs
December 19, 2011 By 11 Comments
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.
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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.
Semantic technology and the travel shopping experience
September 13, 2011 By 21 Comments
In a previous Tnooz article I suggested that internet technology had transformed the travel transaction into a self-service, always on, multiple choice, zero friction vending machine.
Can the latest dip into the global hotel ID swamp work?
August 16, 2011 By 16 Comments
The Travel Technology Initiative recently announced the launch of TTIcodes, an initiative to create “the definitive listing of properties” core information.
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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.
Welcome to a new world of standards in travel technology
May 19, 2011 By 6 Comments
It’s not often I write about standards with my OpenTravel hat on, but I thought it important to share some ideas on where standards are going and why, more than ever, they are important to travel.
Amadeus enables travel agency settlement of airline ancillary services
March 1, 2011 By 2 Comments
This wasn’t “a shot heard ’round the world,” but Amadeus accomplished something far-reaching in becoming the first GDS to enable travel agencies to issue IATA standard electronic miscellaneous documents through a settlement organization, in this case BSP.
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.
