Posts Tagged with ‘travel’

Have you ever noticed that while you know tons of facts that you discover when traveling abroad or in some cool places in your home country but thousands of miles from your home town, you sometimes lack knowledge about the area you actually live in? I have actually met people in Moscow that have never been to Kremlin or residents of New York that never climbed the Empire State Building. Probably this is because that we believe the places [...]

The holiday season is upon us, so I thought it appropriate to review a very effective and cool service called Tripit . Tripit it is not a brand new site, but it has added some great new features that can make trip planning drop dead easy.
Essentially, all anyone has to do is forward their travel confirmation emails to Tripit and the system automatically builds a master itinerary for the user. Everything the traveler needs is essentially provided for them [...]

Professional Travel Guide has been a source of travel information for industry professionals. This week it announced that it would be opening its doors as a free service for the public.  It will be offering the public the same information on hundreds of thousands of destinations, accommodations and transportation options that industry pros have had access to since the beginning.
The feature that keeps Professional Travel Guide in the realm of Web 2.0 is the interactive eGuidebook. This lets you [...]

Yapta is the site that will save you money on your next purchase of flight tickets. So often, you either hear about a deal on tickets someone else got that you missed by not checking the airline site two days before, or you buy your ticket, only to find out that had you waited a few more days, you could have saved yourself a lot of money on your purchase because of the random deal the airline posted afterward. This is [...]

Trying to book an international flight, but frustrated by the lack of options or the knowledge that there’s probably a lower fare out there you just can’t find? Vayama takes care of these problems, being the solution to finding all international flights you might need. Backed by one of the largest travel organizations in the world, BCD Holdings NV, vayama comes to the table with a lot of experience and support to make it a powerful resource for travelers. It brings [...]

The Webby Award winners for 2007 have been announced, and though the variety of categories doesn’t allow Web 2.0-centric entries to claim a majority, some well-known names – quite a few mentioned here on Profy in the past, in fact - are present on the roster to be celebrated come June 5th at a gala held in New York City for all winners. Here are a few of this year’s number-ones.
Remember Zopa? Diana Tan covered the “money marketplace” here on [...]

Skylow delivers the cheapest available price for any requested flight route around the world. SkyLow.com provides the ultimate search, compare, and book engine, serving both consumer and business segments.
If you travel around the world frequently, perhaps you are familiar with the trouble of getting the best deal for your money to get a flight ticket. Although there are so many portals that blossom nowadays, I am sure you will agree with me if I say that it’s just making it [...]

Do you find it annoying when you go to a travel portal and make a search just to find out that it does not cover every travel website?
If you frequently fly around America and Germany, have you searched hundreds of travel service providers websites to make sure you don’t miss the best price you can get? It would be a waste of time to check them one by one every time you need to travel, would not it?
Thanks to Kinkaa, [...]

 
Last week Paul G. posted an article about Tripmates – a social network for travelers. Today I am pleased to publish an interview with Tripmates CEO Samuel Rogoway.
Svetlana: So first of all let me ask you to introduce yourself and tell us briefly about your experience and how you have come up with the Tripmates project.
Sam: I am the CEO of Tripmates. We launched the beta website on August 1. The idea emanated from my own frustrations while traveling. It is [...]