Re: UKNM: Re: Travel sites

[Chris Locke]

At 11:09 AM 1/7/00 -0000, you wrote:

 >Thanks for the explanation - I much appreciate it. As I said before, I

 >haven't travelled that much in the past, so a lot of this is new to me!

 >

 >Maybe there's a similar situation here to that with fulfillment - like

 >start-ups who spend vast amounts on marketing, and the minimum on

 >fulfillment, start-ups in the web travel arena aren't spending enough on

 >database/web integration!


They could spend as much as they like, but if you don't own & run the

databases that the industry uses, then you have no control over them at all.


Out of interest, can any travel industry peeps on this list tell us if the

major UK package operators are any closer to creating a uniform

database/inventory system?



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