Henry Harteveldt’s keynote address to the OpenTravel Alliance North American Advisory Forum warned an audience of travel industry distribution executives that
Hotel Industry Survey – How to Align Business and Technology Priorities?
April 13, 2011 By 1 Comment
After radically cutting costs and deferring projects to survive the recession hotel groups are relying on technology to help them maintain operational efficiencies and keep costs low as business volumes return to normal. This hotel industry survey asks for the top business and information technology priorities, plus how any gaps will be bridged over the next 36 months.
Mobile Marketing Best Practices – HSMAI Resort Special Interest Group
February 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Presentation at Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI) Resort Best Practices Meeting by Robert Cole of RockCheetah. Key areas covered include the current mobile landscape, why mobile dramatically changes the playing field and how the splinternet introduces deployment and measurement challenges. Traveler Engagement must be considered before technology decisions can be made. Future implications are simply described as changing Anytime/Anywhere to Everytime/Everywhere.
Top 10 Travel-Marketing-Technology Twitter HashTags For November 15-21
November 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
By my count, the PhoCusWright Conference in Phoenix last week utilized at least 49 different hashtags, but that by no means gave them a corner on the market. There were several other major conferences held that covered Word of Mouth Marketing, Web 2.0, Twitter, Innovation, Mobile, European Startups and another travel industry tradition, the New […]
SilverRail – PhoCusWright Travel Innovation Summit Winner
November 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
SilverRail – Twitter Synopsis: Aggregates global rail suppliers into a single distribution platform with rules based APIs for each carrier system and single user interface Just the Facts: Company Name: SilverRail Technologies Website: www.silverrail.com Location: Woburn, MA Judging Category: New Company Business Segment: Rail Search Product Name: Trax Demonstrated by: Aaron Gowell, Founder & CEO […]
CruiseLabs – PhoCusWright Travel Innovation Summit Runner-up
November 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
CruiseLabs – Twitter Synopsis: Multi-GDS/XML capable cruise booking engine with interactive deck maps, proprietary videos and travel agent chat within shopping application Just the Facts: Company Name: CruiseLabs Website: www.cruiselabs.com Location: Plano, TX Judging Category: Emerging Company Business Segment: Cruise Booking Engine Product Name: NexWav Demonstrated by: David Tossell, CEO Company Description (from website) Plano, […]
Kony Solutions – PhoCusWright Travel Innovation Summit Finalist
November 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Kony Solutions – Twitter Synopsis: Single write-once, run everywhere mobile application platform provides device independent deployment across multiple channels & form factors Just the Facts: Company Name: Kony Solutions Website: www.konysolutions.com Location: San Mateo, CA Judging Category: Established Company Business Segment: Mobile Platform Product Name: Kony Mobile Application Platform Demonstrated by: Pico Rech, Senior Solutions […]
TrustYou – PhoCusWright Travel Innovation Summit Runner-up
November 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
TrustYou – Twitter Synopsis: Uses semantic technology to analyze/aggregate reviews across dozens of travel sites & social communities for hotel reputation management Just the Facts: Company Name: TrustYou Website: www.trustyou.com Location: Munich, Germany Judging Category: New Company Business Segment: Semantic Review Aggregation Product Name: TrustYou Analytics & Semantics Demonstrated by: Benjamin Jost, Co-Founder & Managing […]
Handicapping PhoCusWright’s Travel Innovation Summit
November 15, 2010 By 5 Comments
The PhoCusWright Travel Innovation summit provides an unparalleled opportunity for companies to showcase their latest and most prized works of development wizardry to an audience of influential travel industry leaders. Handicapping this event is a difficult challenge – There is no daily racing form, and aside from Goby participating, and Amadeus winning last year, there […]
Top 10 Travel Marketing Technology Twitter HashTags For November 8-14
November 14, 2010 By 2 Comments
Some of the world’s most important conferences in a variety of disciplines took place this week including global travel, enterprise computing, social media and search marketing, mobile, video, Microsoft and those beloved bleeding-edge startups. Here are my picks for the top ten Twitter #hashtags covering travel, marketing and technology for the week of November 8 […]
