The end of the year brings with it an avalanche of “best of” lists and trend prognostications. And of course, we are not immune to this fundamental human desire to look ahead to what’s ahead — and reflect on what has been. As the year-end begins to near, there’s…
This is a viewpoint from Alex Kaluzny, Chief Technology Officer at Egencia. Judging from the GBTA/VDR conference in Frankfurt last month, artificial intelligence (AI) is top of mind when discussing the evolution of business travel. With a variety of sessions on the subject, topics ranged from major players describing ROI…
It’s that time of year again when we have a look back at some of the things that made an impact on travel technology and distribution in 2017 as well as gaze forward. Over the next few days in further articles, tnooz will provide some industry perspectives on key…
Sometimes, it’s what you don’t do that can get you into trouble. SecurityMetrics, which helps companies achieve compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, conducted a forensic examination of the ecommerce environments of organizations that suspected a payment card data compromise. They found that despite the increased…
This is a viewpoint from Glenn Wallace, consulting technology and product expert and co-founder of the public safety technology startup Doxanto. Very early one morning I visited a café on the way to my gate at the airport. This particular café has two lines: a coffee line and a…
Hotel Jumpstart, an accelerator programme from Expedia Affiliate Network and Hotels.com, has announced the five startups who will go through the six-month scheme. EAN and Hotels.com initially launched the programme in October and has since whittled 230 entries down to a shortlist of 10 before a panel of judges…
“The industry is so fragmented,” said Esra Calvert, Virginia Tourism Corporation’s Director of Research, when asked to describe her biggest challenge in tracking Virginia’s ad effectiveness. “We are working with so many diversified vendors from big to small, and it can be difficult to bridge the data in real…
This is an article from China Travel Daily.It appears as part of the tnooz sponsored content initiative. Full service airlines, such Lufthansa Group, Emirates and British Airways, have led the adoption of IATA’s New Distribution Capability (NDC) XML standard in the past few years, and in doing so, have…
“There’s nothing cheap about loyalty”, poetically asserts Ryan Bingham, the main character of the Walter Kirn novel Up in the Air during a dissertation about the perks and perils of Hilton and Maplewood respective loyalty programs. For those unfamiliar with the book (or with the movie by the same…
Sponsored by Adphorus. Over the course of 2017, we’ve seen that many large brands are still unaware of the true power of advertising on Facebook and how best to access its two billion-plus monthly active users. Marketing teams that are particularly fluent in Google seem to demonstrate resistance in…