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Welcome to TTI (Travel Technology Initiative).

They say that summer is finally here ... although I find that hard to believe following one of the wettest few weeks I can remember for a very long time!   It seems that each month that goes by, more and more weather records get broken.   The one good thing that wet weather does do is to make people book overseas travel in their droves to get away from it!   I was amazed to see that Thomas Cook's website traffic increased by a whopping 27% following the bad weather over the first Bank holiday in May and specifically for travel over the Queen's Diamond Jubilee weekend, whereas Hoseasons fell by 38% in that very same week.   Anyhow, whatever the weather, I hope that your businesses are all doing well and that you are also faring well given the on-going economic conditions that we continue to find ourselves in.

Here at TTI we have all been very busy with our various projects and the planning for our two upcoming events later this year.   I am also happy to report that we are continuing to do well with TTI membership numbers growing month on month, which is very encouraging news indeed.   Our TTIcodes project is also doing well and we now have several major players signed-up, with many more in the pipeline.   You can read more about how we are doing with the TTIcodes initiative in a special feature in the May Newsletter that has been written by Pete Hazel - our TTIcodes Co-ordinator.   By the way, please don't hesitate to contact Pete if you need any further information on TTIcodes or if you would like a demo of the web facility itself, which, I must say, is very impressive indeed.

Our Project Management Working Group is currently considering a number of new initiatives including the possibility of creating TTI technical briefing papers.   Subjects currently under consideration include: cookies, mobile technology development, semantic web development and resort codes.   If any members would like to be involved in these new initiatives please do not hesitate to get in touch as these subjects are worthy of consideration given their growing impact on travel technology as a whole.

Looking ahead, this year of course sees the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the Olympic Games which means a very busy time for London as a whole during the Summer period and for all of those involved with incoming tourism into the capital.   I just hope that they can find a better solution for immigration control at our borders to get those queues down!   Perhaps one of you can suggest a good technical solution?

In terms of our two events later this year, we have our autumn conference entitled 'The Future of Travel Distribution' an all day event which will take place on Wednesday 12th September at the Strand Palace Hotel in London, and our winter forum which will , once again, take place in conjunction with World Travel Market on 5th November entitled 'The WTM Travel Innovation Summit' which we will again be organising in partnership with OpenTravel.   Details on both of these events will be published soon but, as before, they are likely to be well over-subscribed so I urge you to book your place early to avoid disappointment.

In the meantime, I wish you all a very pleasant summer and happy holidays.

Kind regards
Peter Dennis
TTI Chairman

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