The Largest Business Media and Information Companies in Travel, 2015
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A lot more innovation needs to come into travel business media and information. Hopefully we and some of the newer players will continue to aggressively shake up the the business of covering the business of the world's largest sector.
For being the chroniclers of the world’s largest and most creative industry, the global travel business media and information companies are a siloed and archaic lot.
Most of these companies have not managed the legacy-to-digital transition well, and have not been able to take advantage of the latest and best digital tools to scale their businesses in digital. Many of these once-storied industry brands have a long history in print, and in digital channels they have been sub-standard, with a sub-scaled reach.
Most of the other business information sectors — media, technology and finance being three prime examples — have already been disrupted by the new digital-only players many times over since the Internet came along, but travel has just started seeing some of those over the last few years, and certainly we count ourselves as one of them.
About a year and a half ago we created a list of the top travel industry news and information si
