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April 22, 2011

Airlines and GDS Battle in Court

Tweet The news this week that USAir has filled a suit against Sabre based on violations of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act comes on the heals of a similar lawsuit filled by AA against Travelport last week. These lawsuits may foretell serious disruption to the traditional travel distribution ecosystem. Most observers would agree that the GDS have been an oligopoly for some time and certainly a monopoly […]

April 8, 2011

DOJ Approves Google ITA – What does it mean?

Tweet Today’s announcement about the conditional approval by the U.S. Department of Justice of the acquisition by Google of ITA Software is sending some shock waves through the travel industry. But at the end of the day what does this really mean? Here are some of my initial thoughts: General search becomes meta-search – There are very valid reasons why sites […]

March 30, 2011

Speaking at the Israeli Travel and Tourism Agency Convention

Tweet Earlier this month I had the pleasure of providing a keynote address to the Israeli Travel and Tourism Agency Association annual meeting in Eilat, Israel. My talk entitled “The Impact of the Emerging Technologies and the Evolution of Distribution Systems on the Global Tourism Industry” covered advancements in mobile technology and key distribution issues including the Google/ITA acquisition and the turmoil regarding distribution between […]

February 8, 2011

Travel Distribution 2011 – an Update

Tweet Since my December post, a number of developments have occurred on the evolving travel distribution front: Sabre and AA have called a temporary truce and are in negotiations to resolve their conflict Priceline has embraced the AA direct connect strategy clearly following an independent path from Expedia and Orbitz USAir has signed a multi-year agreement with Expedia which includes […]

December 22, 2010

Orbitz – AA Ruling – Is 2011 the year we will see Permanent Changes in Air Distirbution?

Tweet News this week that AA successfully defeated the Orbitz motion for a temporary injunction allowing AA to remove its content from Orbitz has uncovered some interesting news that may foretell major changes in air distribution for 2011 and beyond. As reported in the Beat, sources are indicating that Priceline may be the first of the four major OTAs to […]

December 7, 2010

A GDS App Store?

Tweet There is no question that 3rd party software developers have had a major impact on the technology market. Whether you look at the role of Zynga providing top Facebook apps such as Farmville or the thousands of 3rd party apps in the mobile app stores, no one can deny the impact of third party development on innovation, but what […]