The Tnooz THack initiative will hit the city of Singapore in October 2011, in partnership with Web In Travel.

The 24-hour hacking event for developers, sponsored by Abacus International as the exclusive GDS, will take place on Oct 16-17, the Sunday before the WIT Bootcamp and Conference kick off.

THack is Tnooz’s unique event which brings together travel industry APIs and the development community to brainstorm and create new digital travel products and web or mobile-based tools.

The event continues and expands on the successful internal developer days held by Abacus in previous years at WIT.
Developers from across the travel, tourism and hospitality industry are welcome to attend, as well as engineers and technicians from local academic institutions in the region.

The event is FREE for developers to attend and participate.

Tnooz is coordinating the collection of APIs being made available to those taking part in the event.
Confirmed so far include (others to be added in the coming weeks):

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Open APIs used in previous THack events include:
• Google Maps
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Wikipedia
• Flickr
• Panoramio
• Android voice control

The event will have the following timetable:
Sunday 16 October
• 9am (venue TBC) – start
• Various initiatives will run throughout the day.

Monday 17 October
• 9am – development time ends
• 11.45 – presentation of entries at the WIT Bootcamp, Ballroom 2, Suntec Convention Centre.

Tnooz and WIT are also co-hosting the Appy Hour social event (sponsored by Abacus International) at the end of Day One of the main WIT Conference on Tuesday 18 October, from 6pm to 8.30pm.

NB: Travel companies wanting to provide an API and developers wishing to attend should contact Tnooz editor Kevin May for more information.

NB2: Commercial sponsorship opportunities are available by contacting Tnooz CEO Gene Quinn.

NB3: More information about the WebinTravel Conference, including registration, main WIT programme and WIT Bootcamp.