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Articles tagged “blockchain”

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Airlines

Four Ways Tech Can Optimize Airline Operations and Improve Customer Satisfaction

The best airline solutions lie at the intersection of data, people, and technology that makes sense of the data and connects the people.

IBM + Skift | 5 years ago

Four Ways Tech Can Optimize Airline Operations and Improve Customer Satisfaction

Online Travel

Travelport, IBM and BCD Travel Use Blockchain to Manage Hotel Commissions

Blockchain isn't as hyped up as it used to be during the bitcoin craze, but companies are still finding its function as a secure ledger useful. If this catches on, it could provide some much-needed transparency to the hotel reconciliation process.

Isaac Carey, Skift | 5 years ago

Online Travel

Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Offering to Get Backing From Booking Holdings

Booking Holdings wants to be an innovator and supporter of alternative payments systems given its presence in emerging markets, especially in Asia. So it is understandable that Booking would want to be a first mover in Facebook's digital currency effort, regardless of how it eventually turns out.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 5 years ago

Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Offering to Get Backing From Booking Holdings

Business Travel

Why Blockchain Could Come to Airport Security Checkpoints

Blockchain in travel hasn't disappeared, even if people are no longer obsessed with getting rich off of cryptocurrencies.

Andrew Sheivachman, Skift | 5 years ago

Why Blockchain Could Come to Airport Security Checkpoints

Business Travel

U.S. Customs Wants to Use Blockchain for Travel Security Measures

As governments and big corporations adopt blockchain solutions to persistent challenges, one shouldn't lose sight of the fact that blockchain's ledger technology can be used to surveil and persecute travelers.

Andrew Sheivachman, Skift | 5 years ago

U.S. Customs Wants to Use Blockchain for Travel Security Measures

Online Travel

Expedia CEO: Google Is Our Biggest Competitor

It's rare to have an Expedia CEO speak so candidly about Google's threat to his own company. After all, Google knows how to punish companies when it wants to. Given Barry Diller's recent statements, and Okerstrom's view, there must be a lot of concern in Expedialand behind the scenes.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 5 years ago

Expedia CEO: Google Is Our Biggest Competitor
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Online Travel

Blockchain and Travel: Distributed Ledger Technology is Changing the Business of Airlines and Travel Agencies

Travel tech leaders are betting on blockchain to transform nearly every aspect of the travel journey, making transactions simpler, more affordable, and more trustworthy, for both providers and consumers.

Further Network + Skift | 6 years ago

Blockchain and Travel: Distributed Ledger Technology is Changing the Business of Airlines and Travel Agencies

Business Travel

How Travelport Is Embracing Blockchain

Travelport, essentially, wants to integrate blockchain into the platform it is developing without throwing out the existing distribution technology it uses. The technology could find its niche in the company's offerings, even as others develop more disruptive and flexible marketplaces for travel selling using blockchain, too.

Andrew Sheivachman, Skift | 6 years ago

How Travelport Is Embracing Blockchain

Business Travel

Interview: Travelport Looks to Solve Hotel Distribution Problems With Blockchain

Some think blockchain can help decentralize travel distribution, which has historically been dominated by a small handful of players. These entrenched companies, however, see blockchain as a technology that can help fix some of the inefficiencies in the travel distribution marketplace without fully disrupting the status quo.

Andrew Sheivachman, Skift | 6 years ago

Interview: Travelport Looks to Solve Hotel Distribution Problems With Blockchain
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Online Travel

CEO Interview: Amber Treshnell of Accor’s John Paul on Preparing for a Future Built by Blockchain

The overall verdict on the buzz surrounding blockchain is still mixed, but Amber Treshnell, John Paul’s CEO, Americas, believes it will be as game-changing as the internet itself.

Accor Group + Skift | 6 years ago

CEO Interview: Amber Treshnell of Accor’s John Paul on Preparing for a Future Built by Blockchain