Technology and distribution come together at Airline Cloud9
Airline Cloud9, the new airline technology event being organised by CAPA and WIT, will be held in Bangkok on August 23-24, is pleased to welcome Sabre Airline Solutions as Foundation Partner.The event brings together the airline and distribution expertise of CAPA and WIT respectively to address a m [...]
Wego opens up two new APIs
Leading travel metasearch site, Wego.com is sharing their comprehensive travel technology, developing two new APIs (application programming interfaces) and making them available to the commercial market for the first time.The APIs provide developers, publishers, entrepreneurs, in fact any business [...]
Indonesians embrace the online travel world
It’s indisputable; Indonesia is one of the world’s fastest growing emerging markets and nowhere is this more apparent than in the country’s enormous embrace of the online world.A reported 50 million Indonesians are now proactively online, incorporating the internet into their daily lives [...]
GlobalTHEN marries media and tech to scale frontline learning
After a decade of analyzing data and trends in travel, tourism and hospitality industry, Ram Badrinathan, formerly PhoCusWright’s man for Asia, saw a problem that needed to be solved – building high quality service at the frontline on a mass scale.With the support of his former company, he devel [...]
Travelport fights for room in changing world of hotel distribution
With its Rooms and More product launched late last year, Travelport is not just competing for a slice of hotel bookings but also a change in industry.Niklas Andreen, Travelport group vice president, hospitality & partner marketing, said, “GDSs have to evolve with the times, 70% of Expedia� [...]
A girl who rocks in tech and travel
Girls in Tech, the non-profit organization focused on women’s innovative and entrepreneurial achievements in technology, is a good example of a small idea that’s somehow grown big because there was simply a need for it.It started in San Francisco in 2007 as a casual meeting of industry friends [...]
Growth in Distribution, IT Solutions boosts profit at Amadeus
Growth in its Distribution and IT Solutions businesses boosted Amadeus' adjusted profit for 2011 by 20.7% to total €487 million for its full financial year ended December 31.This was backed by like-for-like revenue growth of 5.8% to total €2,712 million and an increase in EBITDA (Earnings be [...]
Armed with funds and tech know-how, SilverNeedle out to build NEXT Gen hotel
Did you know that Silver Needle is a rare white Chinese tea that’s harvested over a two-week period every year? Well, I didn’t know that and neither did Bill Black, I suspect, until he started researching for a name that would infer a sense of welcome for the new hospitality company that he’ [...]
Reservations “on the go” with GetThere Mobile
Global technology company, GetThere, has added new capabilities to its mobile offering, giving travellers the ability to make air reservations with their smartphones (iPhone, Blackberry and Android) within company policy and preferences for all carriers in the global distribution systems (GDS).G [...]
