Travel Technology

As most of you know I was intimately involved with this year's PhoCusWright's Travel Innovation Summit. I have been tracking both ...

Over the last few weeks I have given a number of keynote presentations to a variety of airline groups. These audiences covered the entire s...

I am writing from Cannes, France where I gave a speech this morning on emerging technology trends that impact airline e-commerce. I represe...

The pace of mobile convergence continues to accelerate. A camera is now a common feature on mobile phones. Smartphones have gone further wit...

In a recent article from Media Post a software application developer from Is tanbul , Tur key attending a conference in San Jose, Californ...

The general media is a buzz with stories about the lack of innovation of the major OTAs. A recent Forrester Report which shows consumers...

I generally do not blog about my own personal travel experiences, but I felt compelled to do so after my family's recent trip to Hawaii...

We've all read about the value of user generated content (UGC) and viral marketing. Unfortunately the best intentions do not always pro...

One of the future trends identified in the PhoCusWright mobile research was the use of mobile devices to augment reality. Layar a browser a...

Apple has filled patents for fingerprint recognition system for the iPhone. This may have major implications for m-commerce and security as...

As a frequent traveler I am quite frustrated with the demise of Clear, the registered traveler program. I just signed up for Clear a few mo...

I am pleased to be helping my colleagues at PhoCusWright with the launch of the brand new technology tradeshow Travdex , May 5-7 2010 in At...

Last week I was in Dublin Ireland to participate in the Datalex Users Conference. Datalex is a long time client of Travel Tech Consulting. ...

I just completed an exhausting two week trip to the Middle East (Kuwait and Saudi Arabia), Dublin, Ireland and Washington DC. I thought I ...

Sabre has introduced a downloadable iPhone app that competes with TripIt . It has some similar features but unlike the email parsing capabil...

This image is an iPhone, right? Look again. This is an illegal iPhone copy made in China that I found was being sold in Dubai. A client ...

On a conference call discussing 1st quarter results with analysts, Gerard Arpey, CEO of American Airlines was asked" What kind of dist...

With Apple approaching 1 billion in downloaded apps, I thought it would be good time to take a look at the top 5 most popular free and paid...

I am working with Bob Offutt this year screening applicants for the PhoCusWright Innovation Summit in November. This effort has triggered s...

I had the pleasure of moderating the panel entitled : Best Practices in Mobile Applications at the PhoCusWright@ITB conference earlier this ...