Travelgate Blog

Interview with Mark Duce, Lead Developer at loveholidays

Camara Abierta 2.0, the technology program at RTVE, published last weekend, a report on how TravelgateX works and what is the product offered to their customers.

Luca Fenzo, Managing Director WHL, Albatravel Group

Many of us remember forms of chats from back in the day like ICQ or IRC, Infovía and many others that have appeared over the years. These different forms of chats represent some of the first mechanisms we had to communicate over the internet, and we will always remember them.

Humble Beginnings

Over 6 years have gone by since our early beginnings in late 2011. I was living in Barcelona back in those days, running my own small software developing company, when I was approached by a close friend from Spain’s largest OTA (online travel agency) to deliver some work on integrations between travel companies. The OTA was based in the beautiful island of Mallorca. This was a brand new world to me, I had no idea of what I was getting myself into, nor where it would take me. In fact, not even how I as going to do it!