Distribution through Collaboration - How OpenTravel Enables Distribution Opportunities for the Tourism Industry

Date:  27 January 2010
Venue:  Delta Centre-ville Hotel
Location: Montreal PQ Canada
Organization: OpenTravel
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The OpenTravel Alliance (OpenTravel), the travel industry's leading distribution specification/standards development organization, will host Distribution through Collaboration - How OpenTravel Enables Distribution Opportunities for the Tourism Industry .

As travelers look for more destination content online and more sellers enter the market, suppliers and intermediaries of content and availability will be forced to electronically distribute that information to multiple trading partners to meet consumer demand.

Standards ease the business and technical burdens of working with multiple partners while ensuring data are electronically distributed in a consistent and cost-effective fashion.

This interactive discussion will cover:

• What are the most pressing objectives for tourism distribution?

• What are the hurdles?

• Who drives tourism distribution? DMOs/PMOs/CVBs? Activity providers? Suppliers? Technology providers?

Held at the same venue as Online Revealed Canada and Canada-e-Connect, this event is targeted to distribution and marketing professionals who work in tourism - DMOs/PMOs/CVBs, tour operators, activities providers, suppliers - and are interested in solutions for electronic distribution of travel information.

This event is free. Attendees do not have to be registered for either Online Revealed Canada or Canada-e-Connect to attend.

Date: Wednesday 27 January 2010, 2:00pm-3:00pm

Location: Delta Centre-ville Hotel
777 University Street
Montreal, Quebec H3C 3Z7
Room Name: Cartier A

OpenTravel gratefully acknowledges the support of Online Revealed Canada and Big Picture Conferences for this event.

About the OpenTravel Alliance
OpenTravel's mission is to engineer specifications that make data transmission flow smoothly throughout travel, tourism and hospitality. OpenTravel creates, expands and drives adoption of open universal data specifications, including but not limited to the use of XML, for the electronic exchange of business information among all sectors of the travel industry.

With a diversified membership representing influential names in all sectors of the travel industry, OpenTravel is comprised of representatives from airlines, car rental firms, hotels, cruise lines, leisure suppliers, service providers, tour operators, travel agencies, and trade associations. Thousands of OpenTravel message structures are in use, carrying tens of millions of messages between trading partners every day. For more information, visit www.opentravel.org.

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