OpenTravel Joins Overture Maps
OpenTravel Alliance Joins Overture Maps Foundation to Power Connected,
AI-Ready Travel Infrastructure
Time for a change
It’s time we focus on the traveler experience in booking
The Open Travel Alliance will become the Open Travel Foundation
The Open Travel Alliance will become the Open Travel Foundation as part of the Linux Foundation
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 …
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 …