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Dara Khosrowshahi

GBTA Announces “Travel Value Chain” Panel

2011-06-30 by Phil Butler

Travelport's Gordon Wilson

Today, the Global Business Travel Association (GTBA) announced a new Travel Value Chain panel comprised of noted industry CEO’s at major travel providers.

Tags: BMO Financial Group, business conferece, business tourism, business travel, Carlson Hotels, commercial travel, Dara Khosrowshahi, Expedia, Global Business Travel Association, Gordon Wilson, travel business, travel execs, travel news, travel strategy online travel, Travelport, Trip Davis

Google’s Probability of Online Travel Success

2011-01-15 by Phil Butler

Eric Schmidt of Google

American Airlines and ITA penned a deal the other day which AA claims had nothing to do with Google’s acquisition of ITA technology. But the suggestion still remains as to what exactly Google is doing to fend off its opponents in the so called “Online Travel War.” Is Google silently orchestrating the downfall of Expedia and the others of FairSearch? Well, probably not anything so diabolical, but winning the ITA acquisition with underlying business relationships? This is not only possible, but probable.

Tags: American Airlines, AMR Corp, AMR holdings, antitrust, Dara Khosrowshahi, Direct Connect, Doug Cameron, Editorial, Eric Schmidt, Expedia, FairSearch, Gerard Arpey, Google Travel, ITA, Japan Airlines, Justice Department, Microsoft, Monte Ford, Orbitz, OTA, Sabre, Tnooz, Tom Horton

Fear Google – Trust Expedia

2010-11-16 by Phil Butler

Banner from the PhoCusWright Conference site

Google’s detractors huddle in Phoenix at this year’s PhoCusWright Conference to try an lobby allies. Fearing Google’s ITA acquisition will forever change the online travel game, some top travel execs seem willing to do anything to block the Internet’s biggest player.

Tags: Amazon, Arrginton, Dara Khosrowshahi, Expedia, Fairlogix, FairSearch, Goby, Google, Google search, ITA, Jim Davidson, Jimmy Wales, Kayak, Kevin May, online travel, Sabre holdings, Terry Jones, Tim O'Reilly, Tnooz, travel news, travel tech




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