Category: Opinion

TESTBED’s Top Reading – June 2019

Google and Amazon in travel and Henderson Nevada, The trouble with tech, Anthony Bourdain, InfoSec in Travel & Hospitality and the luxury of People in June’s reading.

TESTBED’s Top Reading – May 2019

Testbed.Vegas’ May reading including techtalk.travel, Future Jobs, Google Trips, Data Hacks, Startup Fraud and Hotel General Managers roles

Testbed Vegas talks Hospitality technology with Techtalk.Travel in Cologne, Germany.

Cheyne Cole & Mark Fancourt from Testbed Vegas sit down with Techtalk Travel’s Andre Baljeu and Daniel Zelling to discuss hospitality technology in Cologne, Germany.

A View from the Testbed — Travel & Hospitality Tech making a home in Nevada

As a travel market Nevada is extraordinary in respect of the scale and focus on the industry. There are many large travel destinations around the world. Although most do not boast the breadth of travel experiences combined with the level of economic impact in a condensed location. Travel in the state comprises airlines, rental transportation,…
Read more

TESTBED’s Top Reading – March 2019

Another busy month flies by at Testbed.Vegas. Plenty going on in Travel & Hospitality this month with Senate hearings on the Marriott data breach and problems with Boeing’s new 737 Max aircraft with countries around the world grounding fleets. We enjoyed exploring the world of Virtual Reality at this months event and we also contributed…
Read more

TESTBED’s Top Reading – January 2019

A selection of thoughtful articles Testbed.Vegas read in January

A View from the Testbed — Traveling for Weed

Cannabis Tourism is a thing. It’s been one year since Nevada opened up the market for both medical and recreational Marijuana product and the impact in such a short amount of time has been remarkable. Growing warehouse facilities Look at the Numbers! $305 Million in sales to date. Just short of $50 Million to date in tax…
Read more

A View from the Testbed — All points North, talking to myself and the extras!

It’s been a very full couple of weeks, and I thought I would recall some of the more recent happenings that caught my attention. Talking to myself LinkedIn made that sound that you hear when someone sends you a message. Who could it be? David Berger, my friend from Volara. A nice surprise to hear from…
Read more

A View from the Testbed — Tours & Activities Tech

Yesterday, Cheyne Cole and I discussed the swiftly emerging space of tours and activities. Recently at Travel Tech Con in San Francisco much dialogue was devoted to the technical emergence of the tours and activities space from a booking, transaction and planning perspective for both operators and travelers. This part of the travel world remains…
Read more

A View From The Testbed — Reflecting on HITEC Houston 2018

It’s the end of four hectic weeks at Testbed.Vegas and Cheyne and I are back in Las Vegas focusing on the next events for the community in July. Time always offers great perspective and since there’s been a little that has passed since being in HFTP HITEC Houston now is the time to reflect.