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This Is the Business Travel Tool Everyone Wants and No One Will Ever Get

Samantha Shankman

Photo Credit: A business traveler walks through Chicago O'Hare International Airport.  Flickr / Nick Harris

Skift Take

A seamless planning and booking tool continues to evade business travelers, but the challenges including privacy concerns, access to open data, and monopoly regulations will keep it at bay or at least dispersed across several travel products.

Open data is the key to our dream travel tool of the future. A global travel database, forgetting privacy and security concerns, could aggregate the schedules and ticketing availability for transportation options worldwide and put them in a single place where a traveler could access, assess and select the best transit option in the weeks or minutes prior to a trip. One of hundreds of travel products possible with greater access to such data is IPITA, an "integrated proactive intermodal travel assistant," discussed

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