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Conversations Happening in the Travel Industry


The Open Travel Alliance will become the Open Travel Foundation

OpenTravel is rebooting to meet the needs of travel retail based on offer/order

Travel Retail in the Boombox Era

Travel retail so ready for disruption given the many, now mostly artificial, barriers preventing new retailers and more travel content. Very comparable to the music/video industry before MP3 & MP4 standards.

Open Travel is rebooting

OpenTravel is rebooting to meet the needs of travel retail based on offer/order

API development needs to “shift left”

API development needs to “shift left” meaning do API definitions via description standards and let tooling do the hard work

OpenAPI Initiative Update

Announcing Arazzo, the new specification from OpenAPI to define API workflows

APIs are just a digital truck

You may in fact deploy some great APIs, it’s still going to mean high labor costs to someone else just because you are different.

Travel standards that benefit the community needs a new funding model from the community

Community standards make travel retail work. Various organizations like OpenTravel, IATA, HTNG (now part of AHLA), the UIC, and others have provided the language by which travel organizations can work with each other to sell their products. There could be significant improvements in retail capability such as cross channel personalization of trip packages. This would […]

What’s Game Theory got to do with Selling Travel?

As explained in Wikipedia, “Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions among rational agents. It has applications in all fields of social science, as well as in logic, systems science and computer science. The concepts of game theory are used extensively in economics as well.” Said a little more plainly, game […]

The answer to the IT labor shortage in travel is through community efforts

Jumping into our time machine, back to the days of ACP/TPF, most airlines and eventually car/hotels (and banks) gathered around a booking solution from IBM (ACP/TPF) and Unisys (USAS). This was due to the fact when one purchased a mainframe you also got a copy of the res system complete with application code. Software as […]

New Impetus to Replace Legacy Systems

Companies have been trying, and oftentimes failing, to get rid of legacy systems for decades.  It was mostly an economic attempt to remove costs, but costs were often higher even where the migration happened. When it came to mainframe systems in particular, the replacement strategies failed to account for all the functions hosted and the […]

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