Comments on: Battle of the Trip Planning Sites

By: tripwolf at PhocusWright conference in Los Angeles | tripwolf | blog

tripwolf at PhocusWright conference in Los Angeles | tripwolf | blog — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:41:40 +0000

[...] At the conference it became clear once again how competitive the field is that we entered: A lot of the travel start-ups have very similar concepts. Stephen Joyce (who presented his very cool technology company Rezgo.com) even calls it the “the Battle of the Trip Planners“. [...]

By: Washington, DC places to visit

Washington, DC places to visit — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:12:40 +0000

I would certainly include TripCart.com, one of the presenters at 2007 PhoCusWright.

Using the more reliable compete.com, TripCart has much higher traffic than TripWolf and TravelMuse. Traffic has tripled in past year.

By: Josh Steinitz

Josh Steinitz — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:43:10 +0000

Steven, it was nice meeting you at the conference. Looking forward to figuring out how to work together…we think “what you do when you get there” is what travel is really all about, and one of the next great opportunities in the industry.

By: Reinhard

Reinhard — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:03:55 +0000

First of all I want to tell you, how beneficiary the techniqual development is. I´m the director of lammertal.info, a small dmo in Austria and due to many occasions it was impossible for me to attend the conference. Reading posts like this is very helpful – thank you.
Concerning your question it is indeed a kind of dilemma for a destination. Until now, dmo´s where providing content on their websites. Content on other plattforms mainly was static, if it was dynamic content (e.g. for bookings) there was a database system which was used.
Now the number of planning tools and websites explodes, nearly each of them has an individual system in the background.
Appart from major destinations like cities and big brands, it will take quiet a long time until smaller destinations will be appropriately presented on these websites, the percentage of contributors amongst visitors is very low. Due to lack of personal and financial resources it is also nearly impossible that dmo´s contribute to each of the new tools in a valuable way.
If destinations provide up to date content on a system like wikitravel, travel tools use these content and complement it with customer reviews this might be an efficient strategy.