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Semirelated question: are there any good interest groups, mailing lists, or forums for tech people working in the travel vertical? I've been doing travel-related stuff since 2004 and I still don't have any good industry contacts.

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If you're in Sydney: http://www.sydneytraveltribe.com/ (no, I'm not a member)

Unfortunately to make good contacts in the travel industry I think you have to go work for one of the major players.

Use Twitter. I still keep in touch with my TA buddies there most frequently outside of Facebook.

Would also be interested in this as well. tlack, what do you do specifically?

My first taste of the industry was working for WorldMedia.net, which is an advertising/media buying/creative services agency which focuses on the travel sector. While there we built Aloha Airlines' booking engine and a bunch of other cool stuff, mostly really dynamic marketing tools driven by data from different sources and stuff like that.

I now work for FederatedTravel.com, where we have a large network of semi-independent hotel booking sites.

Your turn!

Well, aside from being an avid traveler, I'm currently working on a side project that helps people find the cheapest method of travel (air, bus, car) to a given location. Getting more information on how consumers travel and their interaction with online travel sites are what I'm most interested in.

Interested in this too.

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