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Travelocity Becomes a Travel Retailer

INFORMS Journal on Applied AnalyticsPublished 1 February 2007
Barry Smith, Ross Darrow, John Elieson, Dirk Guenther, B. Venkateshwara Rao, Faker Zouaoui
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TL;DR

The ENM has helped Travelocity become a more effective retailer and has contributed over $54 million to Travelocity earnings, at a current rate of $43 million per year.

Abstract

In 2002, Travelocity lost revenue and market share to competition as the business environment changed. Travelocity and Sabre collaborated to develop the enterprise network model (ENM). The ENM combines discrete choice customer modeling with simulation and large-scale optimization to improve Travelocity’s management supplier agreements, customer marketing, and product pricing. The ENM has helped Travelocity become a more effective retailer and has contributed over $54 million to Travelocity earnings, at a current rate of $43 million per year.

Keywords

Social SciencesBusiness, Management and AccountingEngineering