Reserve believes it can work closely with restaurants using a dining review model that bucks the user-generated content trend. Whether its personalized restaurant recommendations will be enough to counter the trend toward publicly available user reviews remains to be seen.
The day when intelligent or invisible design is no longer either of those things, rather simply just commonplace design, is slowly getting closer, and Wise's talk will explain what travel brands should do to reach that point.
Conversion has gotten more complicated during the past year and Hennessy's talk will lay out why it really matters and why it should be kept at the heart of what a business seeks to do.
Richard Branson made sure that his Virgin Atlantic oozed cool and shook the aviation industry out of a bland stupor. It's good to see that dynamic brand endure in an industry where many other iconic trailblazers have faded into memory.
21c Museum Hotels answers mainstream demand for cultural, local and educational travel by adding to the quality of artistic discourse in mainstream America.
Any company can launch a crowd-funding campaign but it's what action a startup takes after the funds stop trickling in that determines its fate. For Bluesmart, that's focusing on telling a story of reimagining the decades-old suitcase concept and bringing it into the mobile era and doing experimental partnerships with major brands that add value to the travel experience.