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 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 [...]
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 [...]
Cadabra Limited Product Description: Cadabra is creating a worldwide online travel agency specializing in experiential tour planning by combining its innovative software with a network of destination expert inbound tour operators. Cadabra’s Web-based technology allows consumers (or travel agents) to research, plan and book all aspects of complex multidestination touring type travel itineraries in one [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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