tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-126149372024-01-26T09:38:55.008+01:00Travel Buzz is a blog on the travel industry. What's new in travel? What are the latest travel trends, and what will be the next thing? How can travel technology be combined with other evolving technologies?Johnny Kollinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06297777805787881139noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12614937.post-1121863811192102732005-07-20T14:45:00.000+02:002005-12-06T12:10:32.176+01:00

As David Gong noted in a comment, the Pennsylvania Tourism Office (U.S.A.) is using blogs as part of a campaign to boost spring and summer tourism. "Real People/Real Roadtrips" is what I would like to call a Blog Soap Opera. A group of people have been asked to daytrip around Pennsylvania and blog and flog about their experiences. There are (low-quality) videos with presentations of the

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A recent survey conducted by Amadeus e-Travel shows that extra services that airlines offer their passengers, such as the ability to make and modify a booking online, are becoming more and more important. Amadeus marketing vice-president and e-Travel managing director Ian Wheeler explains that "as low fares become the norm, extra services /... / become a key differentiator". For low-cost carriers

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In May, Microsoft acquired MessageCast Inc. With MSN Alerts users can receive notifications from such sources as MSNBC, MSN’s sites and Weather.com. Real-time information such as in-route alerts, current weather conditions and shopping alerts can be received to MSN Messenger, e-mail and mobile devices.Wouldn't it be possible to come up with a service, hosted by a flight information aggregator,

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Yesterday, a friend of mine called me from Nice Airport. She was about to go on a holiday to the US and was going to fly via Paris to Atlanta. Her flight from Nice was delayed by more than two hours due to a strike so she asked me to check if her flight from Paris was delayed as well or if she would miss it. The only information she had at the time was the name of the carrier and the flight

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With regards to my previous post on collaborative filtering and travel diaries, I have now finally found a travel site that is going in (what I think is) the right direction. At TravelPost.com, users can store all information related to their travel experiences in one place. They can not only post travel journals and pictures, but can also create their own travel maps along with ratings of cities

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RSS, Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary, is a simple push technique originally developed by Netscape. It is used for automatic sending of news and other web material from a website to the user. The user installs a simple program, a news reader, which receives information based on the user’s preferences and installations. The websites that support the technique send the information as

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A survey, conducted by Forrester Research in 2002, showed that "six in ten [US leisure travelers] turn to friends and family for travel information", and more importantly - they follow through. According to the same study, almost half of the people receiving personal travel guidance from others purchase a trip. These referral marketing travelers are highly interesting from a customer segment

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New search services such as Oodle, an aggregator of classified ads from various sources, have started to become more and more popular. Their services are often financed by using Google AdSense contextual text advertisements alongside the list of search results.Although deep linking has sometimes led to legal action, such as the case of Ticketmaster vs. Microsoft in 1997, it appears to be accepted

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