Originally published on world.hey.com/luca.cosivi on October 7, 2021. Yesterday, I posted a new newsletter that took a deep dive into Winding Tree. I read it again and felt I should add a short personal take on what the future of online travel distribution might look like, let's say 10-years from now. I believe that there are two possible futures for the world of online travel distribution, one where companies like Booking, Expedia, Amadeus, Sabre are pretty much non-existent and one whe...

Originally published on world.hey.com/luca.cosivi on October 7, 2021. Yesterday, I posted a new newsletter that took a deep dive into Winding Tree. I read it again and felt I should add a short personal take on what the future of online travel distribution might look like, let's say 10-years from now. I believe that there are two possible futures for the world of online travel distribution, one where companies like Booking, Expedia, Amadeus, Sabre are pretty much non-existent and one whe...

Originally published on world.hey.com/luca.cosivi on June 28 2021. In this newsletter, you'll get to know how travel distribution evolved in two different time periods:Thomas Cook and the advent of travel agents (1841-1996)Online Travel Agents (1996-2020)But first, let's make something clear, something that this pandemic might have allowed us to forget.Humans and travel.Humans have been travelling for thousands of years and the Covid pandemic is a speck of dust in our 300,000-year h...

Originally published on world.hey.com/luca.cosivi on June 28 2021. In this newsletter, you'll get to know how travel distribution evolved in two different time periods:Thomas Cook and the advent of travel agents (1841-1996)Online Travel Agents (1996-2020)But first, let's make something clear, something that this pandemic might have allowed us to forget.Humans and travel.Humans have been travelling for thousands of years and the Covid pandemic is a speck of dust in our 300,000-year h...

Originally published on world.hey.com/luca.cosivi on October 6, 2021. This deep dive was made possible after a conversation I had with the Head of Product, Mathieu Tahon. Whether this is the first time you have heard of Winding Tree, or you have been following them since 2017, this article covers the basics and what is coming for the company. From now on I will refer to Winding Tree as WT. If you need a refresher on the current applications of blockchain technology and the main problems these...

Originally published on world.hey.com/luca.cosivi on October 6, 2021. This deep dive was made possible after a conversation I had with the Head of Product, Mathieu Tahon. Whether this is the first time you have heard of Winding Tree, or you have been following them since 2017, this article covers the basics and what is coming for the company. From now on I will refer to Winding Tree as WT. If you need a refresher on the current applications of blockchain technology and the main problems these...

Originally published on world.hey.com/luca.cosivi on August 16, 2021.Blockchain Technology 101The first thing that surprised me while reading academic papers on blockchain technology was the decades of research in cryptography, programming, and mathematics that were necessary to build real-life applications that worked. The feeling you often get with blockchain is this wild west free for all that appeared out of nowhere in 2008 from someone using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. If you are int...

Originally published on world.hey.com/luca.cosivi on August 16, 2021.Blockchain Technology 101The first thing that surprised me while reading academic papers on blockchain technology was the decades of research in cryptography, programming, and mathematics that were necessary to build real-life applications that worked. The feeling you often get with blockchain is this wild west free for all that appeared out of nowhere in 2008 from someone using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. If you are int...