Oral History of Online Travel: Two Unsung Pioneers Who Shaped the Future
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Not everyone who drafted business plans, wrote the code, made sales calls or forged partnerships in the early days of online travel garnered glitzy headlines or even made it to 2016 to see how their labors all worked out. They -- and countless others -- are still worth remembering for their contributions.
Skift launched its largest and most ambitious project yet, The Definitive Oral History of Online Travel, on June 1.
In nearly 40,000 words founders, CEOs, other executives and insiders tell a story in their own words about the creation of Internet giants such as Expedia, Priceline, Travelocity, Orbitz, TripAdvisor and more.
Not all of the interviews fit into the big story so we are publishing standalone stories that offer deeper insight into information we collected during the three-month research process.
In this article today, as we did yesterday in recalling the work of Jord Poster at Priceline.com, we highlight the roles of key figures whose names aren't widely known and who are no longer alive. Nevertheless, they played important roles in the evolution of online travel.
In today's article, we focus on Greg Davis and David Rae.
Davis, 33, was president of cruise and vacation-packager National Leisure Group (which became World Travel Holdings) when he was killed on
