Digital Content: Skift Delivers Travel Industry Intelligence to Frequent Flyers

Fed up with dated travel publications and fresh from two years of traveling the world, paidContent founder Rafat Ali is launching his next endeavor, a travel industryintelligence service calledSkift.

Why would this formerdigitalmedia news guru turn his sights on airline, hotel, and tourism intelligence? Well, I dont like sports, says Ali, who left paidContent in 2010. Im a traveler, so there was a personal bias to cover this information.

Skifts business is divided into three parts: trade information publishing, consumer news, and data analysis. The companysl trade information thatl trade information thatl trade information thats been spread across several publications.

First, its taking on older travel trade... [via Epicenter Wired Blogs]