Check out our CEO, Aaron Gowell, as he tests out the train versus taking the plane from London to Paris and back.  

Guess which one wins?

A lot of the focus here at SilverRail is on the European and North American rail markets. However, in terms of total rail use, they pale in comparison to some of the markets in Asia, with Japan alone accounting for about half the rail market size of Europe, as an example.

Our very own Cameron Jones with a case study of his very own on European business travel!  

Nathan Polonski is one of our newest additions to the SilverRail team, and has definitely hit the ground running.  Getting up to speed on the SilverRail platform through testing and moving through to thinking about how best to scale our software through automating our private cloud infrastructure.  Nathan has been a great addition to the team, and great to have him featured here on our blog!  

Yesterday, EyeforTravel’s Ritesh Gupta posted a great interview with our very own Cameron Jones about the developments that are taking place in the ever evolving rail distribution landscape.

You can read the original EyeForTravel article here, or the contents are pasted in below.

A new study commissioned by Thalys suggests that taking the train is not only generally cheaper and often faster, but that the increased productivity available for passengers is enough to swing the decision towards rail over air, particularly for corporate travellers.

It’s a busy year for us here at SilverRail with a number of new rail lines being integrated.   The next live connection we will be launching is the Spanish rail carrier; Renfe - live in our system in the next two months! 

By no means do we think we are the only ones forecasting the world at the start of the year, but we thought it would be worth sharing some of our thoughts on the likely developments in the travel industry over the course of 2013. Below you’ll get our version of the crystal ball, with the top 5 trends in travel for 2013!  We’d love to get your thoughts and responses in the comments below.

Over the course of the last couple of months, some members of the SilverRail team have attended some major travel conferences (ACTE in Rome, GBTA in Budapest and PhocusWright in Scottsdale), all of which highlighted an interesting divide in the corporate travel market as it relates to online self-booking tools.

Will the market stay with the traditional mandated self-booking tool for all travel? Or will the “book where-ever you want” model take hold, giving travelers more freedom in their booking choices?