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Corporate Travel
May 5, 2022
Tweet Way back in the early 2000s I was asked to address a session at Oracle Corporation shortly after they had acquired e-Travel. I was introduced as the “grandfather” of self-booking tools. This title reflected my early adoption of this tech at Sun Microsystems and the fact that I authored the first analysis of OBTs back in the late 1990s. […]
August 19, 2020
Tweet It was 1992 and I was traveling with an associate at Sun Microsystems to Montreal visiting a travel software company. My traveling companion was a classic road warrior who went into auto-arrival mode as soon as the plane landed. As he bolted out of the plane when the door opened, I struggled to keep up as his routine was […]
August 4, 2020
Tweet It was 1996 and I had just launched my consulting practice the prior September. On the agenda that day were consecutive calls with two startups, The Trip.com (not associated with the current iteration of the former C-Trip OTA) and BizTravel.com. Their mission was clear; to bring digitized travel management to the small/medium enterprise (SME) segment. And of course, the […]
July 24, 2020
Tweet As we are in the midst of one of the most devastating events in the history of the travel industry, the Covid-19 pandemic, you might find it odd time for me to write a blog article about the need to upgrade technology infrastructure for travel distribution. No one has any money, not the airlines, the GDS, the OTAs or […]
June 24, 2020
Tweet As the industry shows signs of a limited recovery, many hope science, and specifically, advancements in medical technology (Med-Tech), will play a key role in ensuring cleanliness and safety to help the travel industry recover. Most pundits will agree that without extensive testing and contact tracing, controlling the pandemic is a challenge. Of course, a vaccine is the best […]
June 17, 2020
The Challenge of Being a Disruptor – Changing the Fundamentals of Travel Distribution and Settlement
Tweet It was a Sunday afternoon in 2013 and I did something I normally don’t do; I checked my Facebook feed (I’m not a big FB user). There I discovered a Meetup for Travel Startups scheduled for the upcoming week in San Francisco. It happened to coincide with an event where I was speaking earlier in the day, so I […]