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Why Distributed Teams Make More Sense Now Than Ever
Greg Abbott | March 23, 2020
Travel and Hospitality brands turn to technology to improve business continuity strategies and resilience to disruptions By Greg Abbott The rate of change and the standard way of doing things, whether that's conducting business, taking care of our families, or simply getting around our cities, is being turned upside down. As the coronavirus (Covid-19) continues to spread around the world, the economic symptoms are emerging. Business continuity management is well underway at most organizations. Hospitality and travel are among the most impacted and face a unique set of challenges. For most hotel and travel organizations, there would be n...
3 Technologies to Watch from HITEC 2016
Greg Abbott | July 14, 2016
By Greg Abbott As the Senior Vice President for the Travel and Hospitality practice here at DataArt, it's important that I stay on top of the latest digital trends affecting the industry. So each year I look forward to attending the Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition and Conference (HITEC), the world's largest hospitality expo that brings together the brightest minds and hottest hospitality products and services. And this year, it seems I was not alone. HITEC 2016 saw record-breaking attendance, with 6,395 hospitality professionals from 65 countries descending on the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans from June 20...
Google Just Upended Hotel Distribution
Greg Abbott | September 28, 2015
By Greg Abbott Google has quietly changed its approach to the hotel industry in a big way. Separate initiatives have combined to expand Google's hotel distribution influence. 1. Consumers no longer have to leave Google to book a hotel – bookings can be made right on the Google site via Google Instant Booking. 2. The bookings are cutting out the middleman – the OTA's – and going straight to the hotel itself. NB: OTA's are some of Google's largest ad spend so they could indeed be cannibalizing some of there revenue. 3. Google is using a commission model rather than a merchant model. 4. Particip...
