Onboard, a website that’s all about cruise travel, aims to directly challenge Cruise Critic and Cruisemates with a posh take on online travel communities. Think Nowness + Quora.
Onboard, owned by LVMH, aims to make online travel chic, at least for cruises
March 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Black(mail?) cards are not welcome at hotels
March 12, 2013 By 9 Comments
Not deliberately trying to be controversial but the customer is always right, unless they are dead wrong.
Traxo launches a review platform for hotels and flights that verifies user authenticity
March 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Social travel and trip planning provider Traxo thinks it has come up with an automated way to verify the authenticity of reviews of hotels and flights—and soon for reviews of cruises and rental cars, too.
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Triptease wants to refresh the reviews space putting an end to faceless text
March 4, 2013 By 4 Comments
Frustration with travel reviews drove Triptease founder Charlie Osmond to develop the service after six years working in social media
TripAdvisor is selling CabinGuru – the cruise site that never happened
March 4, 2013 By 1 Comment
To the outside, a travel site called CabinGuru seemed like a perfect idea – a cruise planning and information service, perhaps a little bit like the TripAdvisor-owned SeatGuru.
TimeshareAdvisor mimics TripAdvisor, challenges TUG and Redweek
March 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The goal of the US-headquartered site, still in beta, is to focus on the timeshare owners’ overall vacation experience, from planning the trip to their actual stay.
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Step forward Graph Search into the digital marketing mix for hotels
February 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment
There’s a well-known saying in real estate – “location, location, location” – which points to the great importance of, well, location when determining the desirability of a property.
Mr & Mrs Smith hops on Qwiki, an app for making videos on the fly
February 20, 2013 By 1 Comment
The luxury hotel platform is an early adopter of Qwiki, an app that turns pictures and videos captured on an iPhone into quickly-edited movies for sharing and that has been downloaded 125,000 times since its launch last week.
Wikimedia and Internet Brands end their legal wrangling, but can Wikivoyage become relevant?
February 18, 2013 By 11 Comments
On February 15, Wikimedia Foundation announced the settlement of litigation between itself and Internet Brands, which means smooth sailing ahead for new wiki-based travel site Wikivoyage — which officially launched in January.
TripAdvisor basks in social graph integration with Facebook, eye-watering numbers revealed
February 14, 2013 By 3 Comments
TripAdvisor, wallowing in a 20% jump in revenue for 2012 compared to the previous year, also appears to be enjoying the fruits of its partnership with Facebook.
