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Posted Jan 13, 2010
The Interactive Travel Services Association commissioned PhoCusWright to produce a paper outlining the "role and influence" of the global distribution systems. You can get it here. For most industry participants, the paper will contain little new information. It looks more like a primer that GDS companies reportedly planning to go public can hand out to potential investors and analysts. If I can be permitted to stereotype, the GDS role is as familiar to such folks as is the dark side of the moon (not the album). ITSA executive director Art Sackler declined to answer my question on whether the paper's timing is related to IPOs, but nevertheless, I have to agree with him that such a paper "was long past due."
Posted Dec 2, 2009
As most of you know I was intimately involved with this year's PhoCusWright Travel Innovation Summit. I have been tracking both new media and traditional coverage of this event. I wanted to provide you some feedback from the inside as well as some comments on the overall subject of innovation.
Posted Nov 18, 2009
Yesterday I watched 34 firms pitch their innovations at a PhoCusWright's travel innovation conference. Nearly all were aimed at the leisure travel segment, but keep reading, because innovations in the consumer market will shape the face of business travel.
Posted Sept 25, 2009
Two readers responded to last week's GUEST column by Doug Weeks regarding travel management company globalization, which itself was in response to feature in The Beat on the role of TMCs ...
Posted Jun 23, 2009
I am pleased to be helping my colleagues at PhoCusWright with the launch of the brand new technology tradeshow Travdex, May 5-7 2010 in Atlanta . Some may simply say, why does the travel industry need yet another tradeshow?
Posted Jun 8, 2009
To The Beat,
Excellent coverage (as usual) of the interesting developments in airline commission policies in Canada. The step by Air Canada would also seem to be (another) clear effort to disintermediate the global distribution systems in Canada.
I'd like to add a little color to your discussion of online share of travel agent bookings in the U.S.
Posted Feb 12, 2009
Only those open to change will reap the rewards
by Michael Strauss
From a technological point of view, the travel industry is not the hunter, but the hunted. Innovations are neither fostered nor developed to the necessary extent. Suppliers, distributors, travel management companies, but also technology providers are partially to blame for this. However, new concepts can help the travel industry to reduce costs, master crises and offer better products.
Posted Nov 24, 2008
At this year's PhoCusWright conference, a variety of CEOs spoke about their companies, but one stood out for detailing how declining business travel has impacted his company's profits.
According to Wyndham Worldwide president and CEO Stephen Holmes, "Where we see the biggest overall weakness in the market is business travel. With cash as king discretionary spending is under scrutiny in all businesses."
Posted Aug 19, 2008
UPDATE: HotelMarketing.com has removed the offending article and replaced it with a different one at the same web address.
We have contacted the owners of HotelMarketing.com to ask them to stop plagiarizing our work. We have requested that if they want to promote one of our articles, they do so using the first sentence and then a link that readers can use to visit our site for rest of the story. Short of that, we asked them to not link to our copyrighted work, as we believe the way they do passes off our work as theirs. They have failed to follow our request, so I am posting this item as a public disavowal of any relationship between ProMedia.travel properties and HotelMarketing.com. HotelMarketing.com is owned by whom and in what country? Hard to say. Like many shams of a Web operation, its "Contact Us" page has no phone number.
Today, HotelMarketing.com referred to our story but passed it off as theirs--plagiarizing and infringing on our copyright along the way. But they took the deception a step further by rewriting the story so as to change the facts and produce disinformation. StarCite has not "launched the beta version of their 'worldwide professional and social network for meeting and event planners,' called i-Meet," as described in HotelMarketing.com's theft of our article on John Pino's new initiative. I almost could have let the "violating the law" thing go and just alerted our lawyers, but you don't rewrite my story with falsehoods and avoid being called out. I'm just uptight like that.
If the site is to be believed, HotelMarketing.com's sponsors include the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International, PhoCusWright, Sabre's SynXis, TravelClick, Travel Weekly and Trust International.
Posted Apr 9, 2008
Travel agencies account for nearly $110 billion in sales, or 41 percent of all travel booked in the United States, according to a forthcoming PhoCusWright report called "Travel Agency Distribution Landscape: 2006-2009" and developed in cooperation with the American Society of Travel Agents, Airlines Reporting Corporation and others.
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