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Friday, November 14th, 2008

This blog is about travel ecommerce & travel social media with a focus on topics of interest to tour operators & B2C travel companies Alex has previously started up a small tour operator (5 staff) and also worked for leading "dot coms", airlines, hotel chains and tour operators advising and project managing web, ecommerce, social media and reservation system projects. We operate TourCMS - a web based reservation system for small tour operators

Exhibiting TourCMS & speaking at
Travel Technology Show
10-11 Feb 2009, London




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Sam Daams: I like this kind of move too. Just 3 months ago I spent the better part of a week putting together a rather cool newsletter admin area for a travel biz I run here in Norway. Tailored to recipients addresses...

Alex Bainbridge: Another example of a curated site is http://www.kallow.com/ (in consumer electronics). I wonder if such a site could work within travel? (just taking a single product per category - and saying - this...

Ed Whiting: I do believe that the model of Travel.co.uk is a model that could succeed and we will see the same model emerge with other companies at some stage. I also have to confess that I was involved in the very...

Vanessa de Souza Lage: At Holiday Velvet we do both: aggregation AND curation. In certain destinations we hand-pick the vacation rentals we feature (Paris, London, New York… to name but a few) and in others we...

Tim: Alex - Merry Xmas to you and yours. Please keep writing as I am enjoying the blog immensely. Best Tim

Alex Bainbridge: Ray, Thank you for coming and commenting at what must be a difficult time. best wishes. Alex

Ray Mason: Alex, James, It’s always a challenge when making public announcements to achieve the right balance between providing all of the facts and providing what one wishes to (or what one is able to) make...

Syl: @Guillaume: -I can’t tell much. Just guessing. How do you know the hotel still have an issue with mice? I’ll be v. surprised to know that the hotel management did not take any action following this...

Guillaume: @Syl Hence my point. A trivial story like the Mice at Intercontinental gets more attention from the industry (you, Alex and others) than some thorough thoughts about WorldRes. I thought it was funny as a...

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