Cadabra Limited Product Description: Cadabra is creating a worldwide online travel agency specializing in experiential tour planning by combining its innovative software with a network of destination expert inbound tour operators. Cadabra’s Web-based technology allows consumers (or travel agents) to research, plan and book all aspects of complex multidestination touring type travel itineraries in one [...]
With the last of my Conferences behind me for this year, I am looking forward to (and not looking forward to) another conference packed year. This past year was one of my businesses travel years to date with almost one conference a month (excluding the summer vacation). They included: Enter Conference- Innsbruck, Austria ITB – [...]
AdventureLink Inc. Product Description: AdventureLink is the first global distribution and reservation network for the adventure travel industry estimated to be worth $150 billion globally. This industry is continuing to grow at 10 to 12% per year as the baby boom generation ages and demands more experiential travel opportunities. AdventureLink has created the largest database [...]
Part of the purpose of being at the PhoCusWright 2008 Conference was to get the word out about the travel innovations that were being demonstrated at the Travel Innovation Summit. To that end, I’ve finally been able to add the videos of the demonstrations to YouTube and gathered them together into a single playlist. Feel [...]
I just received my beta invitation this morning for Google’s Friend Connect, social network widget platform. I have been waiting for this for a while, and here is why: 1. Friend Connect allows website owners to drop the social widgets into websites that are not socially aware. By this I mean that you can add [...]
It’s amazing to me how much the T-List has grown since it was launched by Mathieu Ouellet back in March of 2007. It has been about a year and half now and the most recent list was posted by Happy Hotelier in his “Happy Halloween: Happy Hotelier’s 300 T-List Travel Related Blogs Ranked according to [...]
The push is on for the Open Web Awards and specifically the travel category. You have the ability to vote once a day for the website of your choice. Make sure to let your colleagues know that you are voting and get them involved. Remember that this is like voting for your favorite idol, the [...]
The PhoCusWright 2008 Travel Innovation Summit was a showcase for two major types of websites. The first was Vacation Rentals, undoubtedly because of the recent PhoCusWright study about Vacation Rentals, and the second was trip planning. There were a number of trip planning tools represented at the show including: Cadabra FoggLight (Home & Abroad) TravelMuse [...]
I mentioned in my previous post that TripIt and Yapta, who both won the emerging category innovator awards at the PhoCusWright Travel Innovation Summit, were also nominated for the Open Web Awards in the Travel Category. Another innovator TravelMuse.com is the only trip planning site from the Travel Innovation Awards to also be nominated in [...]
The round one voting for Mashable’s Open Web Awards were just released today at 12:00 EST and I’m really pleased to announce that the two winners of the emerging category from Monday’s Travel Innovation Summit at PhoCusWright 2008 are also features in the Open Web Awards. There is a lot of buzz around what TripIt [...]
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