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Chicke Fitzgerald

Chicke Fitzgerald, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, LeisureLogix, LLCFounder and Chief Executive Officer
LeisureLogix, LLC
Member of the Leisure & Lodging Council

Chicke Fitzgerald is the Chief Executive Officer of the Solutionz Group, a consulting company specializing in travel industry which she formed in 1995. She is also the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of LeisureLogix, a technology company providing game changing integrated trip planning, booking, mapping and routing services. Ms. Fitzgerald has over 30 years of experience in electronic distribution and marketing, specializing in the travel, transportation, and telecommunications industries. She specializes in strategic planning, joint venture partnerships, multi-channel distribution, marketing plan development and execution, business startup support, outsourcing, electronic distribution, and business process re-engineering. She has published a three book series on travel distribution. She has held executive positions at Sabre and Worldspan and has been a consultant to American Express, AAA, Cendant, Travelport, Amadeus, Panasonic, Motorola, Intel and Carlson Companies. (This is me - Update Profile)


Employment History
2006 - present Founder and Chief Executive Officer
LeisureLogix, LLC
1995 - present Chief Executive Officer
Solutionz Group International, Inc.
1994 - 1995 Sr. Director
SITA Telecommunications/Equant
1992 - 1994 Senior Director
Worldspan
1982 - 1992 Sr. Director
Sabre Holdings Corporation

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Until we get to "intent-based, situationally relevant" search, there is no vision | 08-25-2008
Analysis of: Is Microsoft's Vision of Search Enough to Catch Google? | www.businessweek.com
Author: Chicke Fitzgerald, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, LeisureLogix, LLC

We are still in the world of Search 1.0 at best.  As long as search engines don't care what my intent is or what my current circumstances are, then I will still get 563,000 results when I enter Travel Tampa in a search bar.  Is there anyone out there that really thinks that this is effective...

Who will win - the device manufacturers, the carriers or the applications providers? | 06-16-2008
Analysis of: T-Mobile invests $6m in deCarta's location based platform | www.thestandard.com
Author: Chicke Fitzgerald, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, LeisureLogix, LLC

Following Nokia's recent investment in Navteq and Apple's announcements last week about having full GPS on the iPhone, T-Mobile announced an investment in DeCarta, a leading provider of mapping tools and location based services. In the article, DeCarta CEO Kim Fennell states that he believes that Nokia...

Impact of Airline Capacity Cuts on the Hospitality Industry | 06-06-2008
Analysis of: Hotel CEOs Lament Softening Demand, Foresee Some Discounting | www.btnmag.com
Author: Chicke Fitzgerald, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, LeisureLogix, LLC

All key metrics are still up (occupancy, demand, supply, average daily room rate), but what impact  will the economic downturn and reduction in airline supply have on the hospitality industry? Air travel represents less than 12% of all travel in the US today by Americans, yet all tools in the industry...

Is the travel pie still growing? Where are the GDS companies in non-air travel planning? | 10-12-2007
Analysis of: LeisureLogix Takes Back the Road with Its Personalized Road Trip Planning and Booking Tool | www.forbes.com
Author: Chicke Fitzgerald, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, LeisureLogix, LLC

The GDS industry, which earns its money primarily from the travel agency community (both online and offline) booking airline tickets, has been said to be totally commoditized and destined for decline.  In 2005 (the last year that all reported their earlings publicly), globally the GDSs processed...

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