Wednesday, March 24, 2004

Mission statement Tralliance Corporation

Tralliance Corporation
Tralliance (an acronym for travel alliance) intends to provide the definitive directory – a comprehensive library of information about travel, tourism, or travel-related products or services – to effectively and efficiently match buyers to sellers. The precise indexing and cataloguing of products and services, to such a degree of detail, will relieve travel consumers’ frustration locating the greatest value, or most tailored, travel offering.

The idea of “concept (activity)-based retrieval” (as opposed to text-based or “free word” retrieval) will help users hone in on the specific products, services, or information that they desire. The end result will be a travel industry directory that will allow for searches that expeditiously produce information that is explicitly bound to the query. For example the query—What is the name of the tour operator that offers submarine tours of the Titanic?— will return tour operators that offers this service.

Highly focused responses—as the Internet continues to grow exponentially over the decades to come—will only be possible through the establishment of directories (complete data sets) like the Directory Tralliance is currently developing.

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