Travel Retail Disruption Using Open Source
summary
Claim: travel distribution still runs like the 1980s with gatekeeper costs caused by 450 airlines and over a thousand bespoke APIs that force per-connection custom code. Built an open source model‑driven compiler that emits OpenAPI descriptions from a combined nouns‑and‑verbs modeling language, and prototypes a universal open offer container (product, price, rules) plus publish/manage/select code destined for the Linux Foundation. Goal: shift from pull/request‑reply to a push/publish model so AI agents can reliably discover and book actionable offers.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Open source travel modeling
- 3:58Travel distribution stuck
- 6:50Gatekeepers in travel
- 10:01What travelers deserve
- 13:11Publishing travel offers
- 17:03Commoditizing travel distribution
- 20:57Partnering with Linux Foundation
- 24:27Future of travel retail
- 35:44Roadmap and challenges
- 40:24Q&A
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