It’s a decision we at Tnooz confront literally every day — when to write about a just-published travel app and when to take a pass on it.
Travesse enters busy flash sale sector but with a destination content twist
September 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring UK-based Travesse, a new flash sale hotel accommodation site.
High-brow hotel search arrives – select by Haiku description
March 4, 2011 By 25 Comments
One of the quirkier new travel sites to appear on the web in recent months – Hotel Haiku, where visitors get hotel property descriptions in, well, Haiku.
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BootsnAll joins ranks of sites pledging to boost travel writing
March 3, 2010 By 3 Comments
BootsnAll is the latest in a growing number of travel content sites attempting to find ways to reward hard-up or aspiring travel writers around the world.
Ranting travel blogger almost moves from being the hunter to the hunted
February 1, 2010 By 5 Comments
Travel Rants editor Darren Cronian has switched from once being a thorn in the side of the travel industry to launching his own hyperlocal content product for tourists.
Earth.org stops spinning, says users did not listen
January 29, 2010 By 21 Comments
The Curse of Tnooz strikes? Within days of Earth.org being featured here the site’s backers have stunned their community of writers and users and suddenly announced operations are over.
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Wiki vs Professional debate returns as Earth.org tries to muscle into content arena
January 26, 2010 By 5 Comments
Earth.org is beginning a push to hit mainstream audiences as it looks to capture the eyeballs of travellers seeking out new travel-related content.
The fledgling site reckons it will “create a reliable travel guide written by you and like-minded travelers from all over the world”.
On the one hand Earth.org works on the same principle as the well-established WikiTravel system where users add content about destinations and attractions and the wider community edits, enhances or removes.
PlanetEye creates online magazine, sells content to third parties
December 2, 2009 By 2 Comments
Trip planning and destination guide service PlanetEye has joined the ranks of similar sites with a new division to show off its specialist content and move to bolster existing media revenues.
The Toronto-based company recently created PlanetEyeTraveler as a standalone e-magazine brand to publish destination-specific news, information and reviews.
In addition, chief executive Jonah Sigel says, each article utilises the existing PlanetEye mapping technology which has gained the site plenty of plaudits courtesy of its unique and exclusive technology partnership with Microsoft.
Is NileGuide one example of how to stop the internet ruining travel journalism?
November 26, 2009 By 6 Comments
Travel planning website NileGuide is using a new commissioned-based payment system that it hopes will attract beleaguered journalists and writers from destinations around the world.
The programme works by paying each writer a flat fee (undisclosed) but then rewarding them further with additional payments depending on traffic.
NileGuide has so far recruited around 100 writers – including journalists, concierges, freelancer travel writers – to its content creation programme.
The internet is ruining travel journalism
October 1, 2009 By 55 Comments
Being a journalist I’m partial to a good headline.
And I figured I needed something to grab attention for my first post on Tnooz. I’m delighted to be in such talented company, but I wonder if I’ve got anywhere near the experience or knowledge of my newly acquired peers.
In fact, it’s this that has got me thinking. What am I here for?
