Are Airlines Missing a Trick with their APIs?
Airlines are embracing APIs to reduce distribution costs. It means travel distributors such as aggregators can get direct access to inventory and reservation systems to search for availability and make…
Hotel Distribution: Have You Got The Full Picture?
Already an intricate web of online and offline sales channels, the hotel room distribution landscape has only become more complex as the fragile boundaries between many of these channels have…
Are Hotels missing a trick with their APIs?
Connecting sales and reservation channels directly to third party distributors using APIs is on the rise. It means travel distributors such as wholesalers and online agents can get direct access…
Are many LCC’s missing a trick or two with their APIs?
LCCs need to continuously minimise distribution costs and with APIs that means optimal conversions. Despite this key driver along with their unquestionable expertise in brand.com analytics, most LCCs are missing…
Artificial Intelligence – How Will it Impact Dynamic Pricing in Travel?
We are all reading lots of column inches on how AI will impact our lives and much of the focus is around autonomous vehicles. Fortunately there hasn't been that much…
Trio Data Engine – The Heavy Lifting Behind Getting API Data Fit for Delivery Where it is Needed
We’ve just launched Trio Data Engine, a more agnostic way of collecting, preparing and aggregating API transaction data for extracting intelligence and insights using other BI environments including popular open…
Feeding your ELK Stack
There is a massive interest in Open-source technologies for data analytics including ELK/Kibana. Large travel suppliers and distributors are quick to embrace these "Big Data" technologies to underpin corporate data…
Taking Kafka to the Next Level for APIs
In a recent post, I talked about the merits and challenges of using Kibana and the ELK Stack for corporate “big data” management. I thought I would follow that up…
Triometric and Revva are working together to champion BI
Triometric and Revva -- partnering to help online B2B travel businesses get the most out of their data for distribution and revenue management Triometric recently announced its agreement with Palma-based…
HEDNA Distribution Data Analytics Findings Shine a Light on Industry Challenges
The HEDNA Analytics Working Group Survey Findings (Pdf) Survey Background Data can be an invaluable resource for hoteliers, but many don’t consider the challenges that are involved in implementing and…