Car rental appears to be in vogue as the place to try advanced planning tools as French giant National-Citer shows off its deal with YourTour.
YourTour, a division of Belgian travel technology company Decizium, has modified its trip planning product so visitors to National-Citer site can plot routes and plan itineraries before hiring a vehicle.
A microsite within Citer.fr allows users to set start and end dates, regions and if a tour should be a linear route between two points or circular.
YourTour then calculates and suggests a route for the period selected, including places to stay, prices, and things to do along the way.
The system is helped by having the involvement of two heavyweights to supply hotel inventory and editorial content in the form of Booking.com and Lonely Planet.
Officials say the existing YourTour system – which is currently limited to France – will be extended in the coming weeks to include Spain, Andorra and Florida.
Another B2B deal is also due shortly to go live for an application on California.
The National-Citer deal follows the Europcar project being developed by UK web design firm Fortune Cookie. The agency has thrown its weight behind a Microsoft Silverlight and Surface-led project to overhaul the Europcar web and offline experience.
This is actually very similar in concept and UI to where we plan to take Cost2Drive.com. We have a working prototype and if anyone’s interested in seeing it just email me at jim@costtodrive.com and we’ll share the link.
Be informed that yourtour.com as partially be developed in Thailand (Bangkok) in 2008-2009. The code has not been fully paid and doesn’t not belong to the website owner. As the intermediary (www.entre-guillemets.be) disappear it seems there is no way we can get paid.
Its is Best way of Traveling. I think this is a Future of Traveling.