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Marketing Mischief: Travelport 2014 Results – $3.5 billion left on the table

Travelport today broadcast their investor call to talk about their results.  I am struck by two things. First, Gordon Wilson shared that their “attachment rate” of a hotel to an air ticket is up to 43 hotel segments out of 100 air tickets sold.   While on the face, this sounds really wonderful, the focus on …

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Throwback Thursday – The Future of the GDS (written in 2001)

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Put on your Jetpack and escape status quo – 10 of 10 Einstein LIfe Hacks

The last Einstein quote that I’ve selected for this series (pardon the one week break) is this: A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. I have been busy being clever. Very clever in fact. And I used to think clever was good, until I read this quote on @AlbertE_Quotes on Twitter. …

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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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