The BOOT - The Business of Online Travel: T-list

Time for my "not out series" - a regular summary of the last 100 posts that I first started with 101 not out and continued with 201 and 301.

Without a doubt this recent period of posts on the BOOT have been dominated by consolidation and deals:

Lonely Planet admitted that it could not meet the challenges of the Internet on its own and sold out a majority stake to the enterprise division of the BBC;
Opodo shed Karavel with the story being broken by an blogger from the inside;
TUI made a bad decision in buying asiarooms and once again search traffic predicted a deal;
the battle for Travel.com.au (who now own the lastminute.com brand outright in AU/NZ) is not yet over with Webjet and Wotif at each others throats and AOT sitting not so quietly on the sidelines;
Rakuten made some healthy profits and set itself for further expansion by selling out of Ctrip;
the Flight Centre privatisation fell in a heap in an embarrassing way for the Flighties board;
rumours flew that Priceline want Travelzoo and the comments section filled up with a debate on the merits of this idea; and
we have the as yet to be confirmed rumour that TravelCLICK are about to be bought.

In other general news

every media outlet there is ran a story about how bad the US air industry is prompting me to run my own series of the Airline Industry brought to you by BusinessWeek, the Legal Fraternity, Wharton, NPR, the Economist and Pizza Hut. Conclusions were that the US air traveller is stuffed and no-one is taking responsibility. In fact Marion Blakely quit as head of the Federal Aviation Authority to join the peak airline lobby group the Aerospace Industries Association;
the T-List is soon to be a book. The BOOT submitted three stories:

it looks like Dead Herring for Red Herring.

and in quirky news

one muppet shouted at two others;
a lion, a crocodile and a buffalo tried to sort out their differences the old fashioned way; and
the BOOT saved the world by defusing a jar of olives.

I hope you're enjoying reading because I am enjoying writing.

Mathieu of radaron started the T-List back in March. It grew exponentially from there to the point where blogs such as Kevin May's Travolution have issued Recommend Lists with reduced numbers to make it more manageable. My own version is here.

Now a book is the offering. Jens Thraenhart has started a project to turn the T-List into a book. Support is growing across a number of conferences including

Canada-e-Connect Conference (www.canadaeconnect.com): Vancouver, November 7-9, 2007;
Canadian e-Tourism Awards (www.canadianetourismawards.com): Vancouver, November 8, 2007;
Wired-In-Travel Conference (www.wiredintravel.com): Singapore, November 29-30, 2007 (which I am presenting at); and
Travolution Conference (www.travolutionconference.co.uk): London, November 1, 2007.

Editors are:

Stephen Joyce, Publisher
Jens Thraenhart, Editor in Chief
Mathieu Ouellet, Editor, North America
Yeoh Siew Hoon, Editor, AsiaPacific
Kevin May, Editor, Europe, Middle East

If you would like to participate then Kevin has a copy of the steps here.

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Tips from the T-List book now available

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T-List is back, soon as a book

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Updated T-List

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