The more things change, the more they stay the same. When I first starting commenting on the tour and activity segment almost five years ago, it didn’t take long for me to see the opportunities with small tourism businesses. It took me a little longer to identify the challenges however. The tour and activity segment [...]
Flymuch is a browser based widget that resides on top of your travel booking experience. It provides deals and access to loyalty programs based on the searching that you conduct. The widget is meant to decrease the searching headaches currently experienced by travelers. The widget aggregates deals and promotions in addition to the flight and [...]
Silverrail claims to have invented a sophisticated middleware technology that aggregates rail inventory from multiple sources and delivering it to any partner in any currency and support real-time transactions. Rail is a $300B market. Silverrail is focusing on Europe which saw a $500B investment in highspeed rail infrastructure. Rail is beginning to take marketshare from [...]
Christ introduced his agnostic travel switch, which is a platform that provides distribution for long tail products primarily around the ski resort industry. The platform provides access to multiple components and combines a CRS for travel suppliers as well as an out of the box booking engine that is available for local and regional tourism [...]
Kyle Duffy presented Revinate, an online tool to help hotels manage their online reputation and social media. Duffy is asking the question, why don’t hotels have a good grasp on their on-line reputation? Revinate is 100% specialized for the hotel space. Duffy explained that the key to feature of Revinate is the dashboard which allows [...]
Benjamin Jost from TrustYou presented their latest innovation, the Semantic Magic Box. The Magic Box analyzes the contents of a review and identifies the meaningful statements within the review content. By analyzing the content, TrustYou can provide the sentiment of reviews. Jost claims to provide intelligent results to search by matching the sentiment of the [...]
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 [...]
It’s not altogether surprising to see more experience based travel sites popping up. Unlike the “all-in-one” travel sites, this segment still has a tremendous amount of room for growth. Enter on the scene, Kijubi.com, the experience marketplace. It took me a moment to realize that the name, as twodotohish as it is, is actually pronounced [...]
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 [...]
In a recent post titled “Travel Agents Finding Relevance Amidst Web 2.0” I mentioned a site called Zicasso.com. In the post I misspelled the domain and within a day I received a message from the CEO Brian Tan informing me of the error. I corrected the mistake and thanked him for his attention to detail. [...]
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