I will not liken suppliers who try to exterminate this column to Elmer Fudd's futile pursuit of Bugs Bunny. No, I wouldn't lower myself to doing that. How, maybe, there should have been more death threats than there were. After all, online travel was born from the ashes of commission caps and it's gone from a passing interest of second-tier travel companies to a big business dominated by large corporations. But look closer.
History repeats itself in the online travel industry.
There's nothing new under the sun. They can be forgiven. It's the ones who were there with me at the beginning who ought to know better. Dot-bombs are nothing new. In it I mused about projects that had passed away without telling anyone.