Open Booking – Travel Technology Consulting Inc.

April 21, 2020

Business Travel Post-Covid 19, A New Reality

Business travel has halted, when it re-emerges, processes and procedures will change permanently.It is official, business travel has come to a complete halt. The chaos caused by Covid-19 is a serious threat to all who make a living in the business travel industry. On April 20th, a NY Times article reinforced the fact “Business Travel Has Stopped. No One Knows […]

June 11, 2015

The Impact of the Lufthansa GDS Fee, Will Metasearch be Coming to Airline.com sites?

Lately, I have found it difficult to find time to blog as Travel Tech Consulting juggles multiple projects across the travel industry, but I felt compelled to comment on last week’s news that Lufthansa would be charging 16 Euros for bookings through the GDS. I have read lots of commentary on this action ranging from support from fellow carriers and hoteliers commending […]

March 5, 2014

The Open Booking Debate

Over the last 18 months I have sat back and observed the heated debate over open booking. My strongest critic of this debate is not about the pros and cons (though I will share that in a moment), but on how definitions vary across articles and thus cloud the very essence of the debate. So before I give you my […]