Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
This is big news folks.
There have been rumours, more rumours and even more rumours about what Google plan to do within the global travel industry. Even the UK’s Travel Technology Initiative are getting excited / concerned about what Google may be planning – dedicating a session at a recent executive forum just to discussing concerns about Google’s plans. (see [...]
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
In the UK we have an industry organisation called the Travel Technology Initiative.
I really enjoy their travel technology / travel website / travel distribution seminars and conferences that take place in London every 3 to 4 months or so. Being a company of limited means we can’t afford (time wise) to go to every travel conference that exists [...]
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
According to Travel Weekly, Ryanair’s website will be down for 3 days while they make some pricing changes to their website (between Feb 16th and 18th) (Ryanair are an Ireland based low cost airline)
Read the Travel Weekly article
I have no inside knowledge of how Ryanair run their website but 3 days? Are they serious? That is [...]
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Got back late last night from exhibiting at the Travel Technology Show in London where I have been for the last couple of days.
I won’t bore you with what we got upto personally save for one highlight – belly dancers on the Tuesday evening at the not to be missed CousCous Darna in South Kensington (a couple [...]
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
I subscribe to about 30 RSS feeds covering a range of subjects.
I try to choose one or two feeds for each subject that I am interested in – rather than every single feed that exists in that subject – as if a piece of news is worth covering – it will be covered by that “source” anyway. I [...]
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