Easy ETL with Python: a step by step tutorial

Sometimes, a few lines of code can replace expensive and complicated software...

Upgrade Your Reporting: Adopt Dynamic Dashboards

Ditch reports, and uncover real-time insights for profitable decisions.

How-To Guide for Hotel BI Projects

Guess what: the basic component to achieve BI success is not a piece of software...

The two leading causes of tour operators’ deaths

A personal and unconventional opinion on travel companies demises

How Analytics Boost Travel Operations

The 3 key drivers to adop BI in any travel-related company, for guaranteed success

Got a booking engine? Probably you’re losing money

Got a booking engine? Probably you're losing money because you're not analyzing its hidden data

How to set up a data-driven culture in Travel Companies

Not easy, but not as difficult as it may seem. Give it a try, you need data culture!

Analogies between Customer Segmentation and finding sex partners

True story: sick and tired of failed relationships, I decided I had enough of the random encounter method (so called destiny) and opted for a matching algorithm instead. You see, I’m a scientist at heart, much more rational than emotional.

Revenue Management for Tour Operators: a Darwinian trait

In the late nineties, I was able to persuade a handful of Caribbean hoteliers to adopt my ludicrously simple and cheap online booking engine. Among those pioneers, the GM of Couples Tower Isle: He even went to suggest to check

Dynamic Pricing for Tour Operators: science, not religion

The owner of the big OTA chuckled at my question. “Every morning we have an entire team checking competitors’ rates and adjusting ours”, he said. “Dynamic pricing is essential today. It was a logical process for us”. Of course, it

8 Reasons TO’s need to adopt Rate Comparison Systems

A question of survival Years ago, an independent hotelier posed the same question to me, only linked to the accommodation business. I couldn’t believe my ears at the moment; since then I learnt that, although news and buzzwords travel fast

Still using Excel to run your travel business?

Still using Excel to run your travel business? Can’t get rid of the telex and Palm Pilot, either? Come on, modernize your stack!

Revenue Management For DMCs? Yes, Please

During a recent trade show, I conducted a simple poll targeting a fairly large sample of DMCs I know firsthand or indirectly, asking more or less the same questions: Would you be able to tell me your most profitable product