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Travel Innovation Summit - The Battle For Centre Stage

July 16, 2008

We are really excited to be participating in the PhoCusWright’s Travel Innovation Summit (PCW TIS). Rezgo has come a long way since its inception, we are gaining attention, building strategic partnerships and have a robust feature set that really sets us apart from our direct competition. Well I may be a little biased, and I realize that our competition at PCW TIS is not direct market competition. As we are competing for innovation and ingenuity, I thought I would do a brief review of the presenters at PCW TIS.

This is not a complete list, and I will be adding others as more information is made available. I will be giving an overview of what they do and a rating based on potential to shake the industry, how innovative they are, and the likelihood of success. So here is a brief rundown of the presenting companies at PCW TIS thus far.

Cadabra

Overview: Looks to be a one stop shop for those going to New Zealand. PRO: You can generate a customized itinerary including hotel and activities and even book all items through their website. CON: Currently only in New Zealand, search for hotel etc can not be filtered and organized (price, stars etc)

Site look: 8/10

Potential to Shake Industry: 6/10

Innovation: 7/10

Success: 8/10

ekit

Overview: Their primary business is selling of SIM and calling cards for travelers, as an ancillary bonus, users are given a travel journal and a secure travel vault for storing important documents digitally. PRO: Free add-ons to a comodity type product. The live tracking features a really cool. CON: Not really an innovative product, there are numerous free mobile blogging and document storage platforms on the market.

Site look: 4/10

Potential to Shake Industry: 5/10

Innovation: 6/10

Success: 6/10

Innovata LLC

Overview: Innovata is positioning itself as the leader in Airline timedable data managing, hosting, and reporting. They have a number of services ranging from Data Licencing, Hosted Services to Analitical Services. PRO: Seem to have multiple strong revenue streams. CON: I am not sure how scalable this business platform is.

Site look: 7/10

Potential to Shake Industry: 6/10

Innovation: 6/10

Success: 8/10

NileGuide.com

Overview: I met the CEO Josh Steinitz at last years PCW, he has made NileGuide a shaker for the trip planning and UGC review sector. PRO NileGuide has great filtering features to help find hotels and activities that interest you, and they have a growing database of product. CON: Lack of transaction capabilities limits their revenue potential.

Site look: 9/10

Potential to Shake Industry: 8/10

Innovation: 7/10

Success: 7/10

Roundtrip Systems

Overview: Roundtip Systems seems to be giving emails a dynamic booking capability. PRO: Piggy backing emails for booking, saves time, widely used technology. CON: Product bookings lack scope and range of options and media.

Site look: 5/10

Potential to Shake Industry: 6/10

Innovation: 7/10

Success: 7/10

WorldMate Inc.

Overview: World Mate offers mobile information for traveler. Their free product has weather, currency and time information, and their subscription service has flight information. PRO: Nice interface, free account is a good incentive to use. CON: With the proliferation of mobile information, all of their data can be accessed through traditional websites.

Site look: 8/10

Potential to Shake Industry: 6/10

Innovation: 7/10

Success: 7/10

Yapta.

Overview: I met Tom Romary and the Yapta Team last year at PCW. These guys have a great product for the american traveller. They track flight pricing for consumers and can help consumers get reemburced if the price of a flight changes before they fly. PRO: Huge market potential. CON: I hope they have a solid revenue model ;)

Site look: 8/10

Potential to Shake Industry: 9/10

Innovation: 9/10

Success: 8/10

Rezgo

Overview: Well I can’t really be objective here, but I think we have a great product! So feel free to go to Rezgo.com and leave a comment on how you would rate Rezgo:

Site look: ?/10

Potential to Shake Industry: ?/10

Innovation: ?/10

Success: 11;) /10

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3.5

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8 Responses to “Travel Innovation Summit - The Battle For Centre Stage”

  1. no imageClaude (Who am I?) on July 17th, 2008 10:15 pm

    Bonjour Phil,

    Can you tell me the process and keys things to participate for PhoCusWright’s Travel Innovation Summit

    For next PCW in 2009, my cie will have a strong and innovate ecartography engine for the etourism industry.

    I will tell you and show you something at PCW in November

    BTW, I vote an average 9,99 ;-)

    Best regards

    Claude

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  2. no imageDaphna (Who am I?) on July 20th, 2008 11:34 pm

    Regarding WorldMate - you totaly skipped the new generation - WorldMate Live, which holds services you can’t enjoy anywhere else.
    learn more at http://www.wmlive.com

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  3. no imagePhil (Who am I?) on July 21st, 2008 9:55 am

    Hi Claude,

    The process for participating in the Travel Innovation Summit was very straight forward. The Rezgo team contacted PhoCusWright, and submitted a written overview of what made our product unique, innovative and why it would be a good competition.

    We were then given a live interview and justified everything we talked about in the initial letter.

    I think the key is to know your product and know how it will shake the industry!

    I am interested in the ecartography engine, lets talk!

    Thanks for the 9.99 ;)

    Phil

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  4. no imagePhil (Who am I?) on July 21st, 2008 10:01 am

    Hi Daphna,

    Thanks for bringing WordMate Live to my attention, there are other features that I most have missed. Looks good, I look forward to hearing about it at PCW 08.

    Cheers,
    Phil

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  5. no imageClaude (Who am I?) on July 25th, 2008 1:11 pm

    Bonjour Phil,

    Thanks for the tips about Travel Innovation Summit

    We will not be full operationnal for november, I think for ITB will be good

    I will send you soon (and Stephen also) a mail about our ecartography engine technology and what whe think about this application in the etourism industry.

    BTW, what about PCW bloggers summit news and tipsfromthelist.com project ?

    just to tell you, Vincent, the french blogger is coming out the etourism industry and will not handle any more is great blog ;-(

    and me, I think to switch definitively from Les Explorers to my personal blog hotelitour, who is run by Wordpress and where I am at home an I have more space to express my self with the tool and other…..

    Best regards from sunny Marseille >> sunday >> scuba-diving ;-)

    Claude

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  6. no imageJosh (Who am I?) on August 26th, 2008 4:23 pm

    hi Phil,

    looking forward to seeing you at PCW. Rest assured, we’ll be integrating transactions along with advertising shortly — hello revenue model!

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  8. no imagePhil (Who am I?) on August 29th, 2008 9:34 am

    Hi Josh,

    It will be good to see you at PCW again. Looking forward to your future upgrades, will they be showcased at TIS?

    Cheers,
    Phil

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