Travel Retail Disruption using Open Source
summary
Argues that travel retail can be rebuilt with open source by publishing a standard offer container plus reference code for publishing, shopping, offer/order management, identity and payment plumbing under a Linux Foundation sub‑foundation; cites 50 years of legacy stateful systems, ~100,000 valid fares per city pair, US travel spend ~$1.1T with less than 20% managed today, and prototype scale tests using Gremlin graph and cloud toolsets that prove search and relevancy scoring can work.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Four decades in travel tech
- 3:52First reservation system
- 8:10Travel in the boom box era
- 12:10Unmanaged travel spend
- 17:11Open source path forward
- 25:16Disruption to business models
- 30:40Foundation and challenges
- 34:51Next steps and community
- 37:39Call to action
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