Stephen Joyce posted an article on Travel & Tourism Technology Trends - Nov 15, 2009, 1:46 am
I had a really great conversation with Barbara Vega, founder of I Heart BackPackers, a tour operator who specializes in backpacking tours all over the World.  During our talk, Barbara wanted to know ...
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Stephen Joyce posted an article on Travel & Tourism Technology Trends - Nov 5, 2009, 12:04 am
This is a copy of my presentation at the Adventure Travel World Summit.  Ofcourse you lose the audio content that goes with it, but you get the gist. I’ve added an outline of the slides along w...
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Stephen Joyce posted an article on Travel & Tourism Technology Trends - Nov 4, 2009, 12:22 pm
In my recent distribution and supply chain collaboration sessions at the Adventure Travel World Summit, I had an opportunity to sit down and discuss aspects of distribution with adventure travel opera...
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Stephen Joyce posted an article on Travel & Tourism Technology Trends - Oct 9, 2009, 12:05 pm
This list is sourced from the Uptake Twitter list which can be found at http://www.uptake.com/blog/blogging/the-t-list-does-twitter-join-the-travel-twitterati-beta_239.html.  I wanted to separate it ...
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Stephen Joyce posted an article on Travel & Tourism Technology Trends - Oct 9, 2009, 11:44 am
This list consists of a mix of OTAs and metasearch sites that provide a service to consumers on-line.  Granted there are some sites that probably fit in here that are communities as well, but I am go...
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Stephen Joyce posted an article on Travel & Tourism Technology Trends - Oct 9, 2009, 11:35 am
For research purposes I have been trying to gather together lists of travel related companies that are using Twitter.  I am slowly but surely putting together some for my own, but hopefully also your...
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Stephen Joyce posted an article on Travel & Tourism Technology Trends - Oct 6, 2009, 1:31 pm
The Adventure Travel World Summit is on October 19-22, 2009 in historic Quebec City.  I’ll be attending this year as a speaker focusing on Social media and distribution systems for the adventur...
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Stephen Joyce posted an article on Travel & Tourism Technology Trends - Sep 28, 2009, 3:33 pm
It’s not altogether surprising to see more experience based travel sites popping up. Unlike the “all-in-one” travel sites, this segment still has a tremendous amount of room for growth. Ente...
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Stephen Joyce posted an article on Travel & Tourism Technology Trends - Sep 27, 2009, 11:35 pm
Google just released their newest foray into the world of ratings and reviews with their Sidewiki product.  The first, and I think one of the most important things to consider, is that Sidewiki is on...
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Stephen Joyce posted an article on Travel & Tourism Technology Trends - Sep 17, 2009, 5:15 pm
During the OpenTravel Alliance half day session at Eye for Travel’s Distribution Summit in Chicago, we had an opportunity to discuss new and emerging distribution channels including, believe it ...
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Stephen Joyce posted an article on Travel & Tourism Technology Trends - Aug 20, 2009, 12:23 pm
Last week I had an opportunity to talk to Claude Guay, formerly an analyst with PhoCusWright but now the CEO of iPerceptions, an analytics company based out of New York.  iPerceptions recently publis...
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Stephen Joyce posted an article on Travel & Tourism Technology Trends - Aug 10, 2009, 3:06 pm
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 softwar...
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Stephen Joyce posted an article on Travel & Tourism Technology Trends - Aug 7, 2009, 3:00 pm
In the retail supply chain you have manufacturers who make products, distributors/wholesalers who ship and distribute the products, and retailers who sell the products to end consumers.  At each leve...
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Stephen Joyce posted an article on Travel & Tourism Technology Trends - Aug 6, 2009, 3:00 pm
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 bo...
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Stephen Joyce posted an article on Travel & Tourism Technology Trends - Aug 5, 2009, 11:33 pm
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 man...
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Stephen Joyce posted an article on Travel & Tourism Technology Trends - Jul 23, 2009, 6:20 pm
Before you can run, you must first learn to walk.  You’ve all heard this many times in your lifetime.  Although the saying is overused, it is used because it is true.  Although the saying can...
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Stephen Joyce posted an article on Travel & Tourism Technology Trends - Jul 10, 2009, 5:05 pm
Today’s guest post is by Andy Hayes. It’s not secret that more and more travellers are feeling comfortable making travel bookings online – and are doing so in droves. Travel bookings in the US ...
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Stephen Joyce posted an article on Travel & Tourism Technology Trends - Jun 29, 2009, 1:40 pm
Google released their latest labs project called “City Tours” last week.  I was quick to jump on the bandwagon and take a look, but I resisted from posting right away because I wanted to ...
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