Have you travelled overseas lately and been paranoid about turning on roaming data on your mobile device for fear of coming home to a ridiculous bill? Well TripButler, a start-up out of Austria is hoping that their portable wifi devices will give technology addicted travelers a reprieve for high roaming charges. The TripButler wifi device [...]
Well, it has been quite a year working with the gang at Tnooz. In one year, Tnooz has rocketed in front of all the competing travel technology media sites to become the leading resource for technology news for the travel and tourism industries. I am immensely proud to be part of this team and to [...]
You may already be aware of pay to play auction sites like Swoopo and Swipe Auctions, now there is a new player in town who is hoping to be the bid-to-win auction site for luxury hotels. There is a lot of controversy around the legitimacy of these types of sites and the marketing/advertising strategies are [...]
UpTake, the world’s largest travel and hotel review metasearch site, is now featuring relevant excerpts from blogs from across the web alongside its 20 million travelers’ reviews and 775,000 places to stay. The new program, “Travel Gems from Bloggers”, is the first of its kind, leveraging pingback technology to find, match and deliver bloggers’ relevant [...]
Mytripguru was created in 2009 to help travelers find things to do based on their personal travel preferences and to recognize individual travelers for their unique knowledge and travel experiences. Mytripguru was started by Nicolas Johansson, a traveler who has seen some of the world but wants to see a lot more. SJ: So what [...]
What do a cork board, sticky notes, note cards, and an Apple style interface have in common? Travel planning of course. Start-up DuffelUp.com is trying carve out their niche in the crowded online trip planning space by offering something a little different, an interface that is simple and familiar. When you plan a trip with [...]
Google just released their newest foray into the world of ratings and reviews with their Sidewiki product. The first, and I think one of the most important things to consider, is that Sidewiki is only available for users who download and install the Google Toolbar. Although there are probably millions of people who have installed [...]
Google released their latest labs project called “City Tours” last week. I was quick to jump on the bandwagon and take a look, but I resisted from posting right away because I wanted to think a little more deeply about the implications of the application. Let’s not forget that Google is a powerhouse and, if [...]
One of the major benefits that small tourism companies have over larger competitors is that they tend to me more nimble and quick to respond to opportunities with technology. The other clear benefit is that the owner/operator or someone very close to the company can add a human face and element to the organizations social [...]
Scott Woodhouse, CMO of Travellr.com contacted me in early March to invite me and my readers to participate in a private beta test of Travellr.com, a new website he has launched. What I really liked was the fact that Scott was proactive and created a beta code “t4blog” before he contacted me. For all you [...]
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