Wouldn’t it be nice to have an easy way for updating your traveler profile? Regardless of which travel agencies, online sites or airlines you use? A place where any travel supplier could – with your permission – access your most current profile data and use it as needed?
Hello, Facebook! Why not hang a module on Facebook where you could Continue reading
**Update: The four finalists are noted below in bold purple text.**
The Phocuswright Travel Innovation Summit showcased 34 firms yesterday. Each has an interesting new angle on some aspect of the travel business. For me, the firms in the social scanning and fuzzy shopping categories were the most intriguing. See this post for my take on the implications for travel procurement. Continue reading
Here are the five most popular posts on this blog from the last 40 days:
I’m surprised that two of these posts don’t relate directly to travel procurement (“Trippy…” and “Future Innovations…”). You’re saying it’s OK to cast a wider net in terms of topics. Cool. I’ll continue to bring in this type of content from time to time. What else would you like to see here?
Here are the highlights from my recent presentation at CASMA titled “Future Innovations in Airline Distribution”. The original deck has about 50 slides, but because it was designed for a live 60-minute speech, it’s hard to get the meaning of many of the slides (nearly all pictures) by themselves. So here’s the 3-minute version:
Channels have limits.
Distribution channels are essential to commerce, but they have limits. The Panama Canal has to build wider locks to accommodate the newest and largest cargo ships. This is a metaphor for the GDS distribution channel, as it cannot handle the “wider” content that airlines want to distribute today.
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Update: Here’s a more current post that gives you the 3-minute condensed version of this presentation, including the most popular slides.
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Here’s what I presented today at the CASMA conference: Continue reading
Gillespie's Guide to Travel Innovation 