Interesting idea from TUI Travel to embrace web tools to improve relationships between its tour operating brands and retail travel agents, using private social network Yammer.
TUI uses Yammer to bring private social network to agents and operators
January 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
What else? Tripl, Ski-Hire-Europe and Expedia-WebJet
December 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Tripl takes the covers off, Sky-Hire-Europe in ski meta first claim, Expedia and WebJet white label. A round-up of other stories from across the industry.
Funding extravaganza: GramercyOne $14.5M and Liftopia $1.3M
October 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Two companies intersecting the travel industry — GramercyOne and Liftopia — picked up venture capital funding in separate transactions.
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Zoombu almost comes out of Beta with offshoot site for ski trips
January 29, 2010 By 2 Comments
Oxford, UK-based meta site Zoombu is almost ready to reveal all to the wider world with the launch of an overhauled micro-version of the main site for skiiers.
Skiing and trains – not an obvious combination, but SnowCarbon is born
October 23, 2009 By 3 Comments
Long Tail of Travel in its full glory here with the launch of SnowCarbon – a new European website dedicated to showing ski fans how to reach the slopes of the Alps and Pyrenees in what it claims is most environmentally concious way, by rail.
The brainchild of Daniel Elkan and co-founder Mark Hodson, both seasoned consumer travel journalists with years of experience penning articles about the ski industry, SnowCarbon is primarily an eco-driven content site which provides tips and advice on rail routes, hotels and destinations.
Only destinations with a reasonable connecting rail route – not always certainty in Europe – are featured on the site.
