Travel Technology

I am glad to report that the remaining speakers at the recent Eye for Travel CRM conference in San Fransisco improved significantly from the...

I am attending a new conference today in San Francisco: "CRM and the Travel Industry" organized by the Eye for Travel organization...

When I authored the report on Dynamic Packaging I had high hopes that we were on the brink of a new era; one which the value of a customer...

Travel Weekly reported today that Sabre is exploring possible collaboration with G2 SwitchWorks . This is based on a comment made by Sabr...

The announcement today that two private equity firms are buying out Sabre is part of a bigger trend. Over the last two years, investors hav...

Today's announcement by TRX on the acquisition of Hi-Mark marks a significant step in the area of corporate travel data management. Ove...

After years of speculation, today's announcement of the merger between Travelport and Worldspan came as no great shock to anyone in the ...

Amadeus introduced a new technology service this week called Meta Pricer . The service "allows airlines to optimise marketing and dist...

This week I met with Josh Steinitz, CEO of a new start-up called the Nile Project . The Nile Project uses personalization techniques enabli...

It has been my pleasure to be associated with PhoCusWright over the last 7 years. I met Philip Wolf in the late 1980s and I have always rep...

The VC panel this morning echoed a theme I have heard a lot over the last 8 months: VCs will only invest in online travel companies that ha...

Listening to the corporate travel panel, it is very clear that these executives don't get it. Travel 2.0 means disruption. This panel ...

Wow, listening to Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz and Priceline reinforces the fact that they are really the legacy online players. Nothing new...

I am listening to the opening panel at this year's PhoCusWright Executive Conference. The Wall Street panel seems to be missing the Tra...

A little later today I will be off to the PhoCusWright Executive Conference in Hollywood. As an PhoCusWright analyst , I will be blogging b...

Much has been written about the changing travel distribution landscape. The four GDS have been forced to lower their fees in exchange for ...

Second Life is a virtual world where you can explore and interact with other online players. Initially Second Life was similar to other o...

T raditionally, most software developers think of GPS or A-GPS as the preferred technology to pinpoint your location and deliver relevant co...

Every since I first viewed the historic Knowledge Navigator video produced by John Scully CEO of Apple in the late 1980's, I have belie...

I wanted to provide you an update on my efforts to launch a new company based on the extraction applications from Fetch Technologies. As a...