On September 25 I gave a talk on startup trends in travel startups section at Online Travel 3.0 conference. The section was organized by Travel Startups community (https://www.facebook.com/groups/travel.startups.intl/).
6. Trends
• Mobile – everywhere
• Big data – we start to understand what it means
• Sharing economy – becomes major part of economy
http://www.tnooz.com/article/mobile-ads-UGC-data-instant-booking-Meeker/
12. Big Data was always near… and it’s in UGC!
Industry strives for semantic UGS analysis engine
13. We started to think about sharing economy impact
“They are really 20th-century laws, and we’re in a 21st century economy” (B. Chesky
about government regulations for sharing economy)