10 August 2009 ~ 13 Comments

Travel Has Much to Learn from E-Commerce – Recommendation Engines

Travel Has Much to Learn from E-Commerce – Recommendation Engines

In 1999 I had an opportunity to work with a variety of best of breed e-commerce products for a large retailer in the U.S. midwest.  One of the products I worked with was NetPerceptions.  The software was developed out of a research program at the University of Minnesota in 1992 and is based on the [...]

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06 August 2009 ~ 2 Comments

Travel Has Much to Learn from E-Commerce – Selling Packaged Goods

Packaged goods in traditional retail have a very different meaning to packaged goods in the travel space.  In retail, a packaged product is a product that is sold in a “package”, ie. a box or a blister pack (literally packaged).  In travel, a packaged product is one that is a combination of two separate products [...]

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05 August 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Travel Has Much to Learn from E-Commerce – Limited Shelf Space

Joe Buhler sent me a link to a New York Times article titled “Worst Part of a Trip May be Booking It“.  The article describes how frustrating the on-line booking experience can be for many consumers and how far behind the travel industry seems to be in comparison to other e-commerce sectors.  We continued the [...]

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