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The travel industry “booking machine” – Have we all missed the boat?

With all the rhetoric about which technology is best, fastest, state of the art, preferred, suggested, recommended, demanded – I believe we have all been focusing on the wrong thing in our quest to improve sales and profitability for the industry. Click here to PRE-ORDER (publication planned for August) As I was updating my book …

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Distribution Basics: It’s all about supply and demand

Travel distribution is a fundamentally simple matter. It is all about supply and demand. In order to understand it, let’s use the warehouse metaphor. Here are the players: THE SUPPLIER’s FACTORY (we’ll use an airline in this metaphor) is the travel supplier’s central reservation system environment that keeps track of inventory, pricing and manages availability …

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