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 [...]
Uptake is travel search engine that is about activities, things to do and lodging for destinations. The system aggregates review data and combines it into a consolidated sourcefor travel information. The site is completely engine agnostic and pushes leads to the site that customer prefers. The number one reason why Google search became the premier [...]
Triportati is a combination of a trip planning tool and a recommendation engine. Triporati uses professional authors to set 62 attributes to over 1200 destinations world wide. The idea is that these 62 attributes become the DNA for vacations. Along with these attributes, Triporati combines the destinations with appropriate attractions and activities. The effect being [...]
TripIt is undoubtedly one of the highest profile innovators presenting at PhoCusWright. TripIt has received alot of press over the last year or so having been featured on TechCrunch and the Webby’s. TripIt has also received a fair amount of investment, most recently $5.1 Million in April 2008. Needless to say, it is much easier [...]
Some applications are easy to understand, some you have to really think about, and some do so many different things it’s hard to figure out exactly what they do. At first, TripChill seems like a pretty simple application. Send it your email confirmations and it creates and itinerary for you and sorts out all the [...]
Travelmuse.com has been in development for just over a year (May 2007) but they quite cleverly disguised what they were doing by leading users (and industry insiders) to believe that they were just another content provider. In fact, what they were doing (so it would appear) is working on their Travelmuse Plan-It Widget which allows [...]
No, it’s not some strange underground club at University where members stand around in robes and pledge allegience to some ancient relic, though the name does have a movie title ring to it. The Society of Leisure Enthusiasts is in fact a members based organization that puts those who enjoy luxury vacation rentals and beautiful [...]
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