Traxo integrates UpTake content, tries to trip-up TripIt

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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.

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When the Facebook mothership sneezes and everyone catches a cold

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Traxo, one of the companies featured in the PhoCusWright Travel Innovation Summit this week and a fledgling trip planning and itinerary management service, is one of many firms that suffers when the tech-heads at Facebook fancy a change.



Founder and chief exec at Travo, Andres Fabris, fresh from unveiling his new company to the wider travel industry, says Facebook notified Traxo a few weeks ago that it would be changing the protocols associated with its Connect tool.



Now this might sound a bit trivial to some but, as Fabris admits: “It’s a pain the butt.”

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Kayak sets sights on TripIt-Dopplr clan with its own trip planner

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Kayak undoubtedly has an unwelcome surprise for TripIt, Dopplr, Traxo and Sabre’s TripCase, among other contenders.



That’s because Kayak has quietly introduced in beta Kayak Trips, an itinerary-sharing service, to about half of its registered users. The service also is being tested on Kayak’s UK site and in France.



Kayak thus becomes the first metasearch engine to get into the post-reservations management game.

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