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 [...]
Today’s post is by Andy Hayes. Have you started thinking about your strategic plans for technology in 2010? If not, you probably should. If This is You, Stop Reading For some of you, the winter holidays is a perfect time to stop, take stock and reflect on the year, and work out a plan to [...]
This is a copy of my presentation at the Adventure Travel World Summit. Ofcourse you lose the audio content that goes with it, but you get the gist. I’ve added an outline of the slides along with some commentary that adds context to the slides. Using Social Media Techniques to Improve Customer Conversion View more [...]
This list is sourced from the Uptake Twitter list which can be found at http://www.uptake.com/blog/blogging/the-t-list-does-twitter-join-the-travel-twitterati-beta_239.html. I wanted to separate it out so that I could generate a TweepML list that would make it easy for you to follow them. UPDATE: To prevent having to maintain two lists, one static and one on the TweepML site, [...]
This list consists of a mix of OTAs and metasearch sites that provide a service to consumers on-line. Granted there are some sites that probably fit in here that are communities as well, but I am going for just the sites where people would generally book their own travel. You can follow this list with [...]
For research purposes I have been trying to gather together lists of travel related companies that are using Twitter. I am slowly but surely putting together some for my own, but hopefully also your, use. Here is my first list of companies starting with airlines. If you know of any ideas, please add them to [...]
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 [...]
Today’s guest post is by Andy Hayes. It’s not secret that more and more travellers are feeling comfortable making travel bookings online – and are doing so in droves. Travel bookings in the US alone were up 12% to US$ 105 billion last year (source: emarketer.com September 2008). However, many travellers are reporting frustration with [...]
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