Australia-based specialist tour operator Women’s Own Adventure (WOA) has been enhancing their group tours with Open Destinations’ mobile technology. We spoke with their Director, Marika Martinez, about her company’s experience using Tineri. Tell us about Women’s Own Adventure, why you started the company, and what your mission is… “I started Women’s Own Adventure from an […]
Kevin O’Sullivan will be taking to the airwaves at 9am on Saturday morning (16/03/19) when an interview with the Open Destinations Founder & CEO will be broadcast on Jazz FM. Jazz Shapers, the Jazz FM show on which Kevin will feature, ‘shares music from the risk takers, leaders and influencers of jazz, soul, funk […]
There were many fantastic speaking sessions taking place at the ITB Berlin 2019 trade show. One such session, which attracted a sizeable and enthusiastic audience of over 120, was a panel entitled ‘Confused by Brexit? Emergency Stunts & First Aid’. The current and future status of the UK’s relationship with the EU has been front […]
BOOKING TAKES TOO LONG There are two main reasons that booking online can take too long. The first thing that can put a customer off, is if they are made to fill in lots of information. For certain tour operators this is unavoidable but it’s always worth thinking how booking forms can be streamlined. The […]
Open Destinations CEO and Founder Kevin O’Sullivan is set to take part in a discussion entitled ‘Confused by Brexit? Emergency Stunts and First Aid’ at the upcoming ITB Berlin 2019 trade show. The following travel industry leaders will be joining Kevin on the panel: Alex Bainbridge, CEO & CTO, Autoura Peter Hense, Spirit Legal LLP […]
UPDATE 7/2/19 – OPEN DESTINATIONS CEO KEVIN O’SULLIVAN JOINS ITB BERLIN BREXIT DISCUSSION PANEL. MORE INFO. ITB Berlin, one of the travel industry’s biggest trade shows, is set to take place from March 6-10th 2019. Like at last year’s event, the Open Destinations team will be stationed in Hall 5.1 at stand 113. Check out our exhibitor […]
Phil Napleton, Senior Vice President – Products at Open Destinations, is set to join an expert panel at Travel Technology Europe 2019. ‘Europe’s leading show for travel technology professionals’ will take place over two days on February 20th and 21st at Olympia in London. Alongside a select group of travel technology experts, Phil will be […]
Open Destinations is delighted to announce that we have added another award to our collection. Corporate Vision’s ‘Travel Outsourcing Team of the Year 2018′ prize was announced in November of last year. Open Destinations’ launched its Business Process Outsourcing service in 2004 and has had an extremely successful fifteen years in the market working with […]
The Open Destinations’ London team has made a donation of £1216 to the UK’s national charity for homeless people, Crisis. The money was raised through a charity raffle held at our annual Christmas party in November last year. Guests to the event included staff from Open Destinations’ offices in London and Goa as well as […]
Will you be in London next month for Travel Technology Europe? If so, we’d love to welcome you to Open Destinations’ stand (T208) to introduce our latest software innovations for Tour Operators, DMCs and Wholesalers. If you’ve not registered to attend yet, you can do so here. There is no cost to attend the show. […]
Open Destinations will be linking up with the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) to present a webinar on February 27th 2019. The session will be introduced by a representative from PATA who will then hand over to Open Destinations’ Business Development Manager Asia – Tim Russell. During the webinar listeners will learn about the potential […]
Many current Open Destinations customers had formerly built and used their own in-house reservations system before switching to our Travel Studio or Travel Builder solutions. Conversely, we sometimes speak to travel companies who choose to build their own bespoke system rather than take on existing third-party software. While we may offer some support to companies […]
