First things first, as chair of the OpenTravel Alliance, I am a staunch supporter of open APIs and standards in travel.
Social-led trip planning travel startups – more questions than answers
November 15, 2011 By 16 Comments
What is it about the idea of social media, trip planning, content-filled sites that seems to attract dozens of bright young things to the travel industry?
Limos.com and GroundLink face off at startup summit
November 15, 2011 By 1 Comment
Call it a fender-bender, but two online and mobile car-service rivals, Limos.com and GroundLink, are bringing their competition out into the open at the Travel Innovation Summit.
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Amadeus unveils competition to improve the travel experience
December 15, 2010 By 2 Comments
Travel technology giant Amadeus is launching a global initiative to find new ideas to “help transform the travel experience”.
The Tnooz Alternative Travel Innovation Summit Awards
November 18, 2010 By 2 Comments
THIS is the set of awards the travel industry is waiting to hear about. No huff, no puff, straight down-the-line acknowledgement of the best of the best. Kind of.
Moderately successful predictions and feedback on travel innovators
November 17, 2010 By 2 Comments
Democracy has spoken and the Travel Innovation Summit 2010 finalists are SilverRail, Hipmunk, Goby Technologies and Kony Solutions.
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Travel Innovation Summit – live blog
November 16, 2010 By 3 Comments
Live blog and updates from the PhoCusWright Travel Innovation Summit on Tuesday 16 November 2010.
Amadeus Affinity Shopper may well spearhead the change but others are trying already
November 19, 2009 By 12 Comments
The Affinity Shopper project by Amadeus IT Group won the PhoCusWright Travel Innovation Summit top prize after beating off competition in the final round from Translations.com, Gliider and EveryTrail.
A reasonably worthy winner, some are saying, and an unusual one given that many believe innovation comes primarily from smaller companies who have to throw their efforts into creating something new in order to challenge the status quo.
Affinity Shopper is a classic skunkworks project from within one of the largest travel technology firms on the planet, so kudos to Amadeus for attempting to create something it, and some others, say is a game-changer.
My sleeper pick from the PhoCusWright innovators
November 19, 2009 By 9 Comments
I have to admit that I was pretty much underwhelmed by most of the innovations at this year’s Travel Innovation Summit at the PhoCusWright Conference.
Although I have written about a couple of innovations that I really like, there is one innovation that seemed to get very little attention during the tcamp and post summit discussion is SpeedRFP.
In a nutshell, here is why I like what SpeedRFP has done.
Four of the best travel innovators and four more to believe in but can’t
November 18, 2009 By 3 Comments
The PhoCusWright Travel Innovation Summit is over.
Of the 33 presenters, four will be chosen to go through to the Center Stage presentation and compete for the winner’s trophy.
Here is my pick for the top four (and four more I wanted to pick but did not hear enough to know).
