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Kemmons Wilson opens the first Holiday Inn in Memphis, Tennessee
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American Airlines C.R. Smith and IBM’s R. Blair Smith meet and forge an alliance to improve the Reservisor system
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J.W. Marriott opens first motel, Twin Bridges
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SABRE was completed
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Delta’s DATAS launches
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The first ARPANET link is create between the University of California and Stanford University
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United’s Apollo launches
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TWA’s PARS launches
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First recorded use of the term Internet in December by the Network Working Group
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TCP/IP transmission protocol makes debut
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AOL and Prodigy emerge as dial-in networks for e-mail, brought by CompuServe
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Air France and Lufthansa develop the Amadeus CRS
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Videcom, the first multi-access global reservations system is migrated into the Galileo CRS
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First mobile phone the Nokia 9000 Communicator is launched in Finland
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Delta, Trans World and Northwest Airlines form Worldspan
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British Airways, KLM and United create Galileo based on the Apollo platform
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Blackberry launches the first phone-based e-mail delivery system
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Travel declines 80% due to attacks on WTC and Pentagon
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Travelport, owner of Galileo purchases Worldspan and immediately controls 46% of the travel agency market
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The Hospitality Performance Group (HPG) is launched; begins electronic marketing
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One of HPG’s 1st clients beats all competitors in the Orlando market for occupancy and RevPar in Q-1
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PromoNet® promotional couponing solution has been chosen as the winner in the "revenue generation"