August 2008 – Travel Technology Consulting Inc.

August 13, 2008

Agent POS International Innovation

Tweet My loyal blog readers will recall my frequent posts over the last few years regarding an independent travel agent point of sale (POS) application. An interesting discovery that has been a result of product analysis I am doing for a large Middle Eastern TMC is the fact there is clear trend with many European and Middle Eastern 3rd party […]

August 5, 2008

American Express’ Social Networking Initiative

Tweet At the NBTA conference American Express announced “plans to launch a business-to-business online networking community for the corporate travel industry.” There are a couple of interesting aspects of this announcement. Social networking is finally being embraced (though only a limited short “hug”) by the corporate travel community. I moderated two sessions at the conference on social networking and both […]

August 5, 2008

AA’s battle with Kayak

Tweet There has been a lot of media buzz regarding the announcement that AA was pulling their inventory from meta-search engine Kayak. The news was first leaked by Tech Crunch on July 23rd. The article stated that AA was pulling their inventory from Kayak and considering doing the same for Orbitz, which Kayak uses to supplement direct connections with airlines. […]