Travelzoo made good on its pledge and quietly introduced a redesign of its U.S. website.
Traxo integrates UpTake content, tries to trip-up TripIt
January 14, 2010 By 4 Comments
Traxo, a trip planning and itinerary-management website, integrated UpTake hotel, restaurant and attraction recommendations so they can be viewed on a Traxo trip details page alongside flights that consumers have booked.
At the same time, Traxo, which launched in August and competes with TripIt, TripCase and Kayak Trips, among others, redesigned its website and took a veiled poke at category leader TripIt.
Part of the new homepage branding reads: “Don’t trip over your trip details,” a likely reference to Traxo’s view that TripIt is clunky, in part because TripIt users must manually forward reservations confirmations and updates to TripIt to upload them into their itineraries. In contrast, Traxo users furnish Traxo with their supplier site user names and passwords and Traxo scrapes the supplier websites for travelers’ new bookings and updates.
US Travel Association redesigns website 1 year after merger
January 7, 2010 By 2 Comments
A little less than a year after the Travel Industry Association and the CEO-based Travel Business Roundtable merged, the rebranded US Travel Association has unveiled its new website.
The website runs on an open-source LAMP platform and uses Drupal for content management.
Eric Weber, U.S. Travel’s vice president of technology, says the redesign project, which took one year from concept to rollout, was shaped in the following manner, and the formula may be useful for other companies undertaking similar tasks.
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Did the MSN redesign team jilt Travel? Looks like, feels like
November 4, 2009 By 2 Comments
MSN apparently began rolling out its redesigned home page to some U.S. users, according to the BBC.
In the redesigned home page, making its debut, Airfares & Travel is now merely called Travel, but you won’t find it without drilling down.
Travel has gone missing, secretly vacationing in some unknown destination.
To find Travel — Bing Travel, that is — you’d have to mouse-over Lifestyle or More to get at it. Some users won’t ever find it and may seek more travel-friendly pastures elsewhere.
