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A video podcast for Travel & Hospitality tech, exploring how technology transforms the industry through expert insights. Why The Dojo?

According to Wikipedia, A dojo is a Japanese term which literally means "place of the way". In the Western World, the term dojo primarily refers to a training place, usually meant for Japanese martial arts. The term can also refer to a formal training place for any of the Japanese arts ending in "do", meaning "way". Inspired by this idea, and by the perfection-seeking performance of the martial ar

tists, we have named this site The Dojo, a community-building video, audio and media platform for software engineers and other professionals to learn first-hand insights from industry experts, executives, thought leaders and entrepreneurs from North America and the world, to help them hone their skills and knowledge base, with the ultimate goal of becoming a source of professional and personal growth. A place where professionals can get to know the way to The Way.

29/09/2025

AI is both an opportunity and a threat. If you embrace it, you can leap ahead. If you fall behind, you risk being sidelined very quickly.” – Paco Pérez-Lozao, President, Hospitality, Amadeus IT Group

In our last dojo.live conversation, Paco shared how Amadeus is putting governance in place to guide AI adoption responsibly, while also encouraging the industry to “jump into the cold water” and seize the opportunities ahead.

Catch the full interview with Paco on dojo.live: https://dojo.live/interviews/the-connected-journey-paco-perez-lozao-on-whats-next-in-travel-hospita…

And dive deeper into Amadeus’ research on how technology will transform travel over the next decade here: https://amadeus.com/en/resources/research/connected-journeys-how-technology-transforms-travel

23/09/2025

🍎 Last week dojo.live was in the Big Apple! Host Kim Lantis took the redeye to NYC and hit the ground running, with just 48 hours to soak it all in and a bucket list of landmarks to check off.

But the real reason we were there? To cover the Amadeus media event, where they unveiled their latest global research report: Connected Journeys: How will technology transform travel in the next decade? 👉 https://amadeus.com/en/resources/research/connected-journeys-how-technology-transforms-travel

Stay tuned for tomorrow’s Day 2 video, featuring our time with Amadeus and Kim’s adventures downtown.

And don’t miss the full dojo.live interview with Paco Pérez-Lozao Rüter, President of Hospitality at Amadeus IT Group, coming soon! 🎥✨

27/08/2025

Virtual cards aren’t the problem. The process is.

As Stuart Davenport shared during our GBTA conversation with Neil Fyfe, virtual cards are proven, successful, and widely adopted across much of travel. So why do hotel payments still lag?

It’s all about process consistency. Every hotel can process a virtual card, but the experience varies by property, system, and even the front desk agent.

For an industry built on seamless experiences, this variability is more than a friction point. It’s a missed opportunity for efficiency, traveler satisfaction, and financial control.

Our takeaway?

✅ Standardizing how new tech is used across the ecosystem is just as important as introducing it.

Watch the full GBTA conversation to see how Conferma and BCD Travel are making that happen here: https://dojo.live/interviews/beyond-the-booth-gbta-2025-with-confermas-stuart-davenport-and-bcd-travels-neil-fyfe/

19/08/2025

The future of expense management in travel is intelligent and it's now!

As Chris Nemeth from BILL shared with us at GBTA, AI is reshaping how payments and expenses are handled:

✅ Auto-coding transactions to the right department or cost center
✅ Seamlessly syncing with accounting software
✅ Delivering full, real-time visibility into spending

For travel leaders, this means empowering teams to focus on strategic decisions rather than manual processes.

15/08/2025

In managed travel, friction is the default and for too long, AI was just a buzzword promising to fix it.

That’s changing.

At , we sat down with Sam Hilgendorf, CIO at Fox World Travel, to explore how Colby, their new conversational AI assistant, is bringing clarity and simplicity back to business travel.

Instead of a chatbot, Colby acts like a true assistant - one that understands policy, empowers travelers in the moment, and lifts the burden off travel managers.

🎯 Why it matters:
– Group travel is messy, especially with unprofiled travelers and fragmented payments
– Unused tickets = lost money, and too often, lost visibility
– And traditional booking tools are frustratingly hard to use

If you're serious about building a better travel experience with fewer clicks and more context, this episode is for you.

Watch the full conversation with Sam here: https://dojo.live/interviews/beyond-the-booth-gbta-2025-with-fox-world-travels-sam-hilgendorf/

14/08/2025

Are corporate travel workflows keeping pace with reality, or just keeping up appearances?

dojo.live sat down with Jean Belanger and Steve Harter of Cerebri AI at GBTA 2025 to talk about where the real problems, and real opportunities, lie in corporate travel today.

One powerful insight: Guest travel is the biggest unmanaged expense in many programs, and it’s falling through the cracks because non-employees don’t have access behind the firewall. But GenAI could finally make this fixable, bringing structure and control to a high-cost, high-risk category.

What else are we overlooking simply because it lives outside the "main program"?

Watch the full conversation now: https://dojo.live/interviews/beyond-the-booth-gbta-2025-with-cerebri-ais-jean-belanger-and-steve-harter/

13/08/2025

What if AI could help airlines save millions and cut emissions at the same time?

In this dojo.live GBTA Convention 2025 episode, Samar Khan, Founder of TripAI Technologies, shares how just 1–3% in fuel optimization can lead to millions in cost savings and a ~3.14% reduction in emissions.

This isn’t hypothetical. It’s happening right now with AI-powered agentic systems, deep domain knowledge, and cloud-native infrastructure at the core.

Our takeaways?

✅ AI can’t just be smart, it has to be embedded in the right context
✅ Collaboration with the right people (pilots, not just platforms) matters
✅ Sustainability and profitability can, and should, coexist

Watch the full episode now: https://dojo.live/interviews/beyond-the-booth-gbta-2025-with-tripais-samar-khan/

12/08/2025

At GBTA 2025, Akshath Dhar, Director of Business Data Analytics at Onyx CenterSource, broke down the B2B commission process and how travel agencies can get paid faster and with less friction.

For the first time, Onyx is opening access to benchmarking intelligence, giving clients visibility not only into their own commission programs, but how they stack up across regions, cities, and global peers. A true game changer for partner negotiations and pricing strategies!

He also touched on a growing trend: a shift back toward commission models and away from net rates. Why? Because with tools like OnyxInsights entering the space, smarter decisions are becoming possible at scale.

Thanks for the thoughtful insights, Akshath. Great to see how data is helping reshape distribution and transparency in corporate travel!

11/08/2025

What does the future of corporate travel booking look like?

At GBTA Convention 2025, we caught up with Michael Farrell, Global Commercial Lead at Deem, for a quick dojo.live pop-up interview on what’s ahead for online booking tools.

Michael shared two big takeaways:

- Content scalability: Thanks to Deem’s acquisition by Travelport, the team is accelerating access to NDC and other critical content.

- Accessibility by design: Deem is the only OBT that fully meets Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, making the booking experience more inclusive for travelers with cognitive, visual, or hearing impairments.

We also talked about the shift toward streamlined, policy-compliant search results and reducing friction and clicks so that travelers stay online and stay compliant.

And, surprise! APIs matter just as much as AI when it comes to delivering that kind of seamless experience.

Thanks again, Mike, for such a thoughtful conversation.

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