25 March 2011 ~ 1 Comment

Move Over Car Rentals, There’s a New Kid in Town

Rezgo Sponsored Industry Research Estimates Tour & Activities at $27 Billion For as long as there have been tourists there have been tours, tour guides, and destination based activities.  Unlike the more commonly known travel segments like flights, hotels, car rentals, and cruise, the in-destination tour and activity segment is dominated by very small businesses.  [...]

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18 November 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Travel Innovator Review – Flymuch

Travel Innovator Review – Flymuch

Flymuch is a browser based widget that resides on top of your travel booking experience.  It provides deals and access to loyalty programs based on the searching that you conduct.  The widget is meant to decrease the searching headaches currently experienced by travelers.  The widget aggregates deals and promotions in addition to the flight and [...]

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17 November 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Travel Innovator Review – Afar Media

Travel Innovator Review – Afar Media

Afar Connect is a combination social network and group travel tool.  Members complete a profile that defines the type of traveller they are.  The system then allows the member to create trips that can be shared with others on the network.  Members share their experiences with similar travelers and can earn badges for helpiing others [...]

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17 November 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Travel Innovator Review – Goby

Travel Innovator Review – Goby

Goby demonstrated at the last Innovation summit and presented their hyper local search engine.  This time around, they are  presenting their mobile platform which allows the traveler to find activities and local content in a mobile optimized environment.  The platform allows advertisers to target travelers in on location. The content is aggregated through searching and [...]

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17 November 2010 ~ 2 Comments

Travel Innovator Review – OneRez

Travel Innovator Review – OneRez

Small Business marketing and procurement is available in almost every industry.  The original Onerez platform allowed the auto rental franchisees to sell excess inventory through a secret shopper type model on the major OTAs.  The new version of Onerez is focused on helping small business owners to access the business travel market. The Small business [...]

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17 November 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Travel Innovator Review – Silverrail

Travel Innovator Review – Silverrail

Silverrail claims to have invented a sophisticated middleware technology that aggregates rail inventory from multiple sources and delivering it to any partner in any currency and support real-time transactions. Rail is a $300B market.  Silverrail is focusing on Europe which saw a $500B investment in highspeed rail infrastructure.  Rail is beginning to take marketshare from [...]

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17 November 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Travel Innovator Profile – Inntopia

Travel Innovator Profile – Inntopia

Christ introduced his agnostic travel switch, which is a platform that provides distribution for long tail products primarily around the ski resort industry. The platform provides access to multiple components and combines a CRS for travel suppliers as well as an out of the box booking engine that is available for local and regional tourism [...]

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17 November 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Travel Innovator Review – Movitas

Travel Innovator Review – Movitas

Movitas develops guest operating system technologies that allow hotels and resorts to communicate with guest through on property mobile. Movitas empowers the hotel to be able to maintain a connection with their guests before, during, and after their visit to the property. The core is a guest communication portal that connects the user through the [...]

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17 November 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Travel Innovator Review – Amadeus One

Travel Innovator Review – Amadeus One

There are 79,000 corporate travel agents and $145Bworth of sales generated by travel managers. AmadeusOne is a corporate tool that brings all the ingredients of corporate travel together into one tool. Amadeus is trying to tackle the concept of the super PNR by providing access to a variety of products through a variety of channels. [...]

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17 November 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Travel Innovator Review – Revinate

Travel Innovator Review – Revinate

Kyle Duffy presented Revinate, an online tool to help hotels manage their online reputation and social media. Duffy is asking the question, why don’t hotels have a good grasp on their on-line reputation? Revinate is 100% specialized for the hotel space. Duffy explained that the key to feature of Revinate is the dashboard which allows [...]

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