Event: Open Travel Foundation Mini Summit NA 2025

Date: June 26, 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 us in discussing the formation of the Open Travel Foundation as a sub foundation of the Linux Foundation.

The travel retail industry is evolving to focus on delivering comprehensive experiences rather than just individual services. This shift necessitates enhanced interoperability among travel providers and retailers. Current protocols, rooted in standards from the 1960s, are outdated and insufficient for modern needs. The industry requires a new approach to handle travel offers as digital retail products, considering the unique characteristics of travel services, such as their transient nature and location specificity.

Addressing these challenges can unlock significant economic opportunities by automating travel arrangements and providing access to previously excluded suppliers. This proposal outlines the creation of an open-source foundation to revolutionize travel retail, fostering a community-driven approach to share costs and risks.

The travel retail market is ripe for disruption as many of the current constraints are rooted in legacy technology upon which business processes and revenue models were built. The latter makes it extremely difficult for any one company or industry segment (air, car, hotel,,,) to unilaterally change. Opensource based approaches have had success in such scenarios as they pull together a community which act together to share costs and risk.

For an overview of the foundation and to request us to reach out to you, visit our webpage.

The Linux Foundation brings to the table decades of experience tackling big disruptive projects. Skills to pull members of a business community together to jointly support a reusable, open, effort  to solve critical industry issues instead of wasteful redundant and competing solutions.

This will take place as part of The Linux Foundation Open Source Summit, which is the premier event for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate, share information, solve problems, and gain knowledge, furthering open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable open source ecosystem. It is the gathering place for open-source code and community contributors.

How to Register

Pre-registration is required as part of your registration to the OSS conference. To register for the Open Travel Foundation Kickoff Meeting, add it to your Open Source Summit North America registration.

Here’s the link to the mini summit: https://sched.co/1xtTo

Attendees may take advantage of code OSSNA25SUMMIT20 for a 20% discount.