The Principal View

I organised September’s Travel Technology Initiative conference. It was called Intermediary Futures and was all about what the next few years hold for travel industry players such as tour operators, online and high street travel agents, bedbanks, etc. You can download some of the speakers’ presentations from this page. Intermediaries are middle-men.

18 Jun

2013

NDC – will it take off?

Last week I was chairing the Travel Technology Initiative’s Summer Forum – Take Flight! This was about latest developments in flight distribution. Speakers covered Google Flight, latest GDS developments and a presentation from Jerry Foran,, Head of Product Delivery, Revenue Management, British Airways, about IATA’s New Distribution Capability initiative (NDC). You can view the presentations at www.genesys.net/events.htm .

16 Apr

2013

Firing on All Channels

A week or two ago Harriet Green, CEO of Thomas Cook, outlined her new strategy for the business. She said that, under the new strategy, British brands will be simplified to “five omni-channel B2C brands.” This struck a chord with me as 12 years ago, in 2001, I organised a conference for Travel Technology Initiative called ‘Firing on all Channels.’

18 Mar

2013

The Connected Generation

Last week I was chairing Travel Technology Initiative’s Spring conference, Let’s Get Personal. It was about social media, personalisation and customer relationship management; all those good things that are so important to be doing well. There were some great presenters. They talked about how to do social media better, working with bloggers, the enormity of the mobile opportunity and so on. You can view the presentations on my website.

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The Principal View

NDC – will it take off?

Firing on All Channels

The Connected Generation