Sharing The Travel Industry's latest Technology
PhoCusWright Innovation Summit Presenters Round 2
Innovation. Here are the second set of presenters at PhoCusWright’s Innovation Summit. Here is the link to the first set of reviews that I did. The ranking is not a measure of how successful their business is, but rather what I fell their impact will be on the travel industry as a whole. 0 would be no change, 10 would be the industry will never be the same, exciting stuff:
| Time Presenting | My Overview | Product Name Twitter Tag, Presenter and Company name | Out of 10 |
| 12:42 pm – 12:47 pm
(5 min) |
Impossible to tell, premiering here at PhoCusWright. Their tag line: “Travel. Better.” | 2.1 Planetism (ALPHA)
#pcplanetism Yameen Salahuddin, Founder, Planetism |
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| 12:47 pm – 12:59 pm
(12 min) |
Seems rather nice :) A dynamic product syndication tool to place a companies products on an affiliates site, with no IT integration. This could be a powerful tool for easily increasing syndication of travel products through the Internet. They feature:
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2.2 Dapper
Product Name: Dapper Ads #pcdapper Paul Knegten, Head of Marketing, Dapper |
8 |
| 12:59 pm – 1:11 pm
(12 min) |
eBuzz is a social media monitoring service for the hospitality industry. This reminds me alot of Vinepulse, as they both provide an easy consolidated tool for a hotel brand to monitor their properties social presence. Not a bad idea, and a little competition goes along way. | 2.3 Milestone Internet Marketing Inc.
Product Name: eBuzz Connect – Social Media Management and Monitoring for the Lodging Industry #pcmilestone Anil D. Aggarwal, CEO, Milestone Internet Marketing Inc. |
6 |
| 1:11 pm – 1:23 pm
(12 min) |
This seems to be an online resourse for a diverse set of people. There are sections that are aimed at the end consumer, and resources that are focused on travel agents / OTAs. It is not clear what their core business proposition is, however I look forward to hearing more. | 2.4 http://ZipSetGo.com
#pczipsetgo Bob Miller, President and CEO, ZipSetGo.com |
5 |
| 1:23 pm – 1:35 pm
(12 min) |
Translations are a very intelligently positioned company. They offer turn key solutions for any end consumer facing business to localize their online content. With economic growth in developing countries (BRIC) there is increasing demand for this type of service. Interested to see what innovations they are brining to the table. So for now I don’t see any major innovation, but I do see a smart business. | 2.5 Translations.com
Product Name: GlobalLink OneLink #pctranslations Matt Hauser, Director, Technology Sales, Translations.com |
6 |
| 1:35 pm – 1:47 pm
(12 min) |
Not able to easily find what travel Insurance 2.0 is about on their website. Their travel press release states that they are releaseing a new platform that will maximize their affiliates insurance revenues. Interesting to see where this goes, this could be a great revenue generator for many businesses. | 2.6 Mondial Interactive Company, a subsidiary of Mondial Assistance USA
Product Name: Travel Insurance 2.0 #pcmondial Bob Dufour, President and CEO, Mondial Interactive Company |
6 |
| 1:47 pm – 1:59 pm
(12 min) |
This is a great idea put together by what seems to be an amazing team. Andres Fabris and Andy Chen made Traxo to connect travellers when they are in close proximity to each other. They are big fans of the KISS philosophy as they automatically import your travel plans from any trip planning wedbsite, and then, depending on your privacy settings, will broadcast your plans to your friends. They also tackle peer reviews. Interested to see this! | 2.7 Traxo LLC
Product Name: Traxo #pctraxo Andy Chen, Co-Founder and President, Traxo LLC |
8 |
| 1:59 pm – 2:11 pm
(12 min) |
Video is a great marketing tool, no questions there. Voyage.tv is looking to captivate an audience with great, high quality travel videos, and then transition that interest in to online bookings for that destination. So far their site has some great content, however the connection between watching video (on the top of the page) and then booking travel (hidden at the bottom) is not very obvious. Interested to see where they take this. | 2.8 Voyage.tv
#pcvoyagetv Tedd Evers, Chief Revenue Officer, Voyage.tv |
7 |
| 2:11 pm – 2:23 pm
(12 min) |
TravelTainment is a fuzzy logic (always gives results) online booking dynamic packinging tool for OTAs, as well as Travel agencies. That about says it all ;)
Tour operators can have their products added to the distribution mix through an XML feed. Not a bad concept for packaging products. |
2.9 TravelTainment – The Amadeus Leisure Group
Product Name: The new TravelTainment Internet Booking Engine #pctraveltainment Andy Owen-Jones, CEO, TravelTainment – The Amadeus Leisure Group |
7 |
| 2:23 pm – 2:35 pm
(12 min) |
Looks to be a hotels.com 2.0 type site. The interface looks snazzy, but aside from Twitter updates, I couldn’t see where the innovation was. They also need to work on the hotel search by name, it would just reset if it didn’t find anything, which is annoying. | 2.10 AboutAnywhere.com
#pcaboutanywhere Ashwin Kamlani, CEO, AboutAnywhere.com |
6 |
| 2:35 pm – 2:47 pm
(12 min) |
Tripcase’s claim to fame is that they are “the smartest free travel application in the world” What that means is that it can estimate wait times for customs, baggage etc. It will let you know if your flight was cancelled, and what alternative routes you can take. Seems like a fancy little app, and I am in the process of downloading it right now :) | 2.11 TripCase
#pctripcase Toby Cunningham, Vice President, Business Development and Product Strategy, TripCase |
8 |
| 2:47 pm – 2:59 pm
(12 min) |
SpeedRFP aims to simplify the group bookings process for travel planners and venues. They standardize the platfor to expedite the process for both parties. Seems like there is a need for this, and they may be on to something. Interested to see what their revenue model is. | 2.12 SpeedRFP
#pcspeedrfp Bradley Pirman, CIO, SpeedRFP |
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