Event: Travel Retail Disruption using Open Source at OSS Summit NA 2025

Date: June 23, 2025

Venue: Colorado Convention Center

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Event: LF Open Source Summit NA 2025

Date: June 23 – 25, 2025

Venue: Colorado Convention Center

Join this session to learn about the driving forces making travel distribution retail ripe for disruption.

Travel retail, shopping and booking stays, activities, or trips, is ripe for disruption using open source. The travel industry was a pioneer in worldwide interconnectivity between suppliers and sellers starting in the 1970s. Fifty years on the process of shopping and purchasing travel products has been computerized and exposed online but works largely the same as it always did. Even as some legacy components have been replaced, their limitations are still present embodied in workflows and policy. Stateful, transactional, processing is still the order of the day. It all needs to be overhauled to move into a stateless, cloud based, digital world. Unaffordable in the current bespoke, siloed world of reservation systems, distributors and channels. Open Source is the obvious answer. As a community make one investment to create the needed foundational capabilities such as offer/order management, security, identity management, event management, rules processing and much more. Noncompetitive functions everyone needs to create traveler solutions such as end to end trip solions and management via an AI powered app. This session will explain how it works.

An Open Travel Foundation is being created to address these issues. For an overview of how the foundation and to request us to reach out to you, visit our webpage.

How to Register

Attend this session as part of the Open Source Summit as Open Source Summit North America registration.