Yahoo partnered with several content providers to introduce travel-planning tools on its Yahoo Travel Philippines website.
Knapsack goes old school, releases trip planning desktop software
August 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Easy to forget that once upon a time often the best user experience was found on desktop software products, overshadowing the timid functionality of the web.
MapQuest who? Rand McNally, Tripology roll out new online travel service
August 5, 2010 By 3 Comments
Rand McNally has been in the maps business for 156 years and has catered to truckers, RV enthusiasts and bikers, but it just quietly relaunched as a sleek online travel-planning website.
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Web service launches to reimburse travellers for rain or lack of sun
July 27, 2010 By 7 Comments
Meteobonus, a new online service to reward travellers during holiday wash-outs or an abundance of dark clouds, has its first industry partner in SmartWings.
Frommer’s to provide content for WomansDay.com travel tab
June 22, 2010 By 2 Comments
WomansDay, with its almost 1.6 million unique visitors per month, plans to create a travel tab, featuring content from Frommer’s Unlimited.
Lonely Planet realises FREE is quite a good idea, claims three million downloads in a week
April 23, 2010 By 13 Comments
Guidebook giant Lonely Planet may be seeing the error of its ways in the most dramatic way possible after scrapping the price for some of its iPhone city guides this week.
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Apple wants to be the ultimate travel assistant with iTravel
April 22, 2010 By 23 Comments
If it wasn’t enough that Google is rumoured to buying travel technology company ITA Software, then this next move by Apple may just finish a few people off completely.
Pennsylvania DMO provides Civil War trail mix with Google Earth and high-definition images
April 1, 2010 By 2 Comments
The Pennsylvania Tourism Office is showing off its Civil War trails with an online tool that blends Google Earth, interactive GigaPan high-definition panoramic images, and informational narratives in the form of “story stops” about 40 historic destinations.
Digital travel brochures – is Discover Ireland getting it right?
January 15, 2010 By 5 Comments
On the one hand there are a plethora of travel content websites, which obviously allow users to print information, while on the other there are pre-printed brochures on the shelves of offline travel agencies.
The area in the middle is where the debate lies as many (probably quite rightly) believe some travel consumers still want to flick through a brochure of some kind as well browse the web.
Maligned by the so-called progressives as an Old School travel industry technique for getting product into the hands of prospective buyers, holiday brochures have remained a strong feature of agency retailing.
Many more travel planning websites planned for 2010
December 24, 2009 By 11 Comments
This is not a 2010 prediction, but a certainty: Many more travel planning, research and metasearch websites are planned for 2010.
This crowded field promises to get more crowded.
For example, Goissimo.com, a U.K. start-up travel planning and metasearch site, announced Dec. 24, that its several-week-old beta has been going well and it will launch full-throttle in January, adding that “it is set to revolutionise online travel search and will lead the way into the new decade for a new era of preference-based travel choice for consumers.”
