Guest post by GEKKO: GEKKO, the personal shopping assistant for hotels, has been selected to demonstrate GEKKO.com and GEKKO Links at the Travel Innovation Summit taking place at the PhoCusWright Conference (November 16-18, 2010 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA). GEKKO, through its products and technologies is streamlining the lengthy process of finding and booking the right hotel at the best price. GEKKO’s... 

Guest post by Vacation Relation: Vacation Relation is the first web service that aggregates social statistics of upcoming vacations. Users are then able to communicate with people they have not met before but share a common ground; in this case a vacation. We provide the ability to browse and interact before ever arriving. Users are able to navigate their social connections using demographic parameters... 

Guest Post by Trevor Crist, CEO of Inntopia: Much has been made about the opportunities that exist for the aggregation of long tail products in the travel industry. Recently, much of the action has centered around two vertical markets– Vacation Rentals, and the Activities and Tours segment. These segments are defined by a huge market with a large number of small suppliers and no real standards or... 

Guest post by Krista Paul, UsingMiles.com: UsingMiles.com is the world’s first real-time management and meta-search engine for award travel, designed with frequent flyers in mind. The company has been selected to unveil its service platform at the Travel Innovation Summit, hosted by The PhoCusWright Conference on Nov 16-18, 2010 in Phoenix, AZ. UsingMiles.com is pioneering a new level of service... 

Guest post by TripAlertz: As social media usage continues to grow, travel suppliers are asking the same burning question: how do you sell travel products and experiences through social media, while also protecting your brand and existing distribution channels? Beginning October 26, TripAlertz will launch the perfect solution: a private sales, members-only travel deals network powered by consumers... 

Guest post by Movitas: Movitas has been selected to demonstrate it’s hospitality-focused mobile revenue platform at The Travel Innovation Summit, taking place at The PhoCusWright Conference (November 16-18, 2010 in Phoenix, Ariz., USA). As the world’s estimated 5 billion mobile devices convert to Smartphones, the migration of travelers to the mobile web has created a revenue channel in the heart... 

Guest post by Hipmunk: Hipmunk, inc. was founded with the goal of taking the agony out of flight search. It started with an MIT undergrad who was wasting too much of his time search online for flights. Nevertheless, he learned enough tricks to become the resource for all of his friends and soon found himself searching for their tickets, too. This simply wouldn’t scale. So he started on Hipmunk,... 

Guest post by e-channel search: e-channel search helps businesses – mostly travel and on-line retail operators to maximise sales, conversion and click through rates with our innovative software, Dynamic CreativeTM. Consider this hypothetical situation…. Wayne is looking to book a flight from LA to Sydney to attend his brother’s wedding this December. He Googles ‘flights from LA to Sydney... 

Guest post by OneRez: by Brian MacKenzie, president, OneRez According to all indicators, corporate and leisure travelers want to be socially responsible when they travel. They would like to pick the greenest and most sustainable options, which also result in the lowest carbon footprint. As the travel industry wrestles with devising standards for evaluating what is green and how to select your travel... 

Former Hotwire.com team aims to save companies millions by giving business travelers access to the world’s largest online competitive marketplace for limousine services. Guest post by Limos.com: Limos.com is set to announce its new business travel product at the upcoming PhoCusWright Travel Innovation Summit – called ForGround.com. The company expects ForGround.com to save business...