Posts Tagged ‘ GDS ’

Data, Data Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink

There’s so much data in airline systems and from the GDSs, but often it’s in unusable, or at least hard to use, formats.  But that’s life in the big city in the travel industry where many of the systems that generate the data are based on 50 year old technologies and data architectures.  But there’s [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 7-26-10

JD Power’s survey on hotel satisfaction is out, Facebook rolls out Questions, Google “borrows” content from Yelp!, Apple adds a few more details to a proposed iTravel app and a few other things that caught my eye: Excellent, excellent post by RedMonk’s Stephen O’Grady on whether Open Source in is maturity, growth or decline. The Big 3 [ READ MORE ]

10 Things that Caught My Eye: Week of 5-17-10

Well perhaps this week’s installment should be 10 things that happened at Google I/O. It surely dominated the conversation last week. But a few travel items make it as well including a post from FareCompare CEO Rick Seaney. news on Amadeus and Travelport and Google’s Friday acquisition of Ruba.  And in honor of the last [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye — Week of 4-19-10

Here’s your weekly reading list: T2Impact’s Timothy O’Neill-Dunne tries to judge who’s right in the airline merchandising row.  Spoiler Alert: it ain’t the BTC. American Airlines is trying to make GDSs, distribution channels to embrace XML in order to access ancillary services, which otherwise can’t be done prior to arrival at the airport.  However, American insists there [ READ MORE ]

Could Touch Finally Pursuade Travel Agents Adopt a New UI Paradigm?

One of the amazing oddities of the travel sector is the lack of adoption by traditional travel agents of modern user interfaces in travel reservation systems. It’s kind of funny that much of the software industry is debating HMTL5 versus Flash while the travel industry is holding onto a user experience that makes me [ READ MORE ]

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