Blog Major E-Commerce and Sales in Tourism 2017/18

Amadeus This blog post provides an insight into the business field of the multi global distribution system Amadeus. Stefan Angst, Sales and Marketing Manager Amadeus Marketing (Schweiz) AG and Viktor Skalski, Key Account Manager TravelTainment Schweiz, gave a lecture on the exciting topic of dynamic packaging. About the company Amadeus is the leading industry player operating at the intersection between technology and travel. The company is present in over 190 countries and employs around 14’000 people worldwide. It is founded in June 1987 in Erding Germany. Amadeus works together with customers, partners such as hotels, airlines and OTAs and other industry players, to improve the business performance and shape the future. It is a kind of a market place, which tries to connect the customer with the travel company. Amadeus manages to let the customer and the provider find each other. In 2015 Amadeus and Navitaire solutions boarded around 1.2 billion passengers and the company wa...

Introduction If not stated otherwise, the information for this blog entry was obtained from Jörg Eugster (2018), online pioneer from the very beginning and lecturer. As a visionary who lives what he propagates, also his blog uebermorgen.com is ahead of its time. Internet of Things (IoT) IoT is the concept that allows the connection of any device to the Internet, any device meaning not only smartphones but also coffee makers, fridges, lamps. Even components of machines applies to the concept of IoT. In general, anything one can think of that has an on and off switch can be part of IoT. The relationships in this giant network is going to be between people, things or people and things. Hence, it goes without saying that the concept of IoT will highly impact our life (Morgan, 2014). Jörg Eugster mentioned the story of the smart fridge combined with the invention of the Radio Frequency Identification Tag (RFID). RFID’s will be placed on product packaging so the pro...