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The hospitality and travel industries are very slow to update their technologies. I used to work with Ritz Carlton and St. Regis and even those brands are pract
by cblock811 12y ago
The hospitality and travel industries are very slow to update their technologies. I used to work with Ritz Carlton and St. Regis and even those brands are practically in the stone age, so I can't imagine how scraping for flight info would go.
I've thought of even building a simple event aggregator for some friends in the industry and they are blown away that it's possible. Then I remember how many venues are in cities like Charlotte and San Francisco and realize why these industries lag in technology. There just isn't a large pool of developers who want to solve their problems.
Do you have any projects you are currently working on?
- jerhinesmith 12y agoCompletely agreed on the "lag in technology" -- couple that with the fact that even if you do manage to book a flight as an affiliate, most providers only give you a flat fee (as opposed to hotel affiliates which tend to give a percentage). Disclaimer: Those claims were relevant the last time I investigated (>1 year ago). It could have changed by now. On the plus side, building out the flight tool really endeared me to hacking on things - which eventually lead me to leave my last job and co-found something new. :)