Alex Bainbridge
Alex is a contributing Node to Tnooz and writes about travel technology, travel startups, specialist tour operators and the tours & activities sector. He has previously led ecommerce, social media and reservation system projects for airlines, leading mainstream tour operators and hotel distribution companies in both leisure and business travel sectors.
He is the CEO of TourCMS, a web based software-as-a-service reservation system and distribution platform used by many specialist tour operators worldwide to take online bookings and distribute to 3rd parties.
He also moderates Small Fish Big Ocean, a community that welcomes small tour operators and niche travel agents to come and discuss travel ecommerce issues. Alex has a computing degree, is passionate about usability, speaks French and still writes and reviews code.
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What travel startups MUST do when pitching in front of the industry
11 days ago
What travel startups MUST do when pitching in front of the industry
Every conference nowadays seems to have some kind of pitching opportunity for travel startups. Some consider these timeslots the ideal time to …
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148 days ago
Lessons for travel startups from Uber and OpenTable: Disrupt, fix or make money
The last few weeks have seen two major travel startup new stories, perhaps giving hope to countless young businesses in the sector. …
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200 days ago
OTA vs metasearch power struggle – Big Data could be a deciding (not boring) factor
Big Data is fast becoming one of those terms that is overused and applied to all sorts of data projects that are, …
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284 days ago
EUREKA! Where could your travel startup idea come from?
Depending upon your pain threshold, running a travel startup is either the most rewarding challenge in your life or it can be …
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438 days ago
Google tightens grip on future of the travel industry – also puts startups in a tough spot
As entrepreneurs tasked with delivering the future, we need a simple model that we can use to evaluate opportunities and determine where we should be building technologies and functionality.
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