Comments on: Trip planning sites are starting to bore me http://www.travel-rants.com/2008/09/26/trip-planning-sites-are-starting-to-bore-me/ Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:52:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark Evans http://www.travel-rants.com/2008/09/26/trip-planning-sites-are-starting-to-bore-me/#comment-125100 Mark Evans Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:56:17 +0000 http://www.travel-rants.com/?p=1838#comment-125100 I think mobile has huge potential for travel planning. The key is figuring out what consumers want to do with their mobile devices. With GPS becoming increasingly popular, the ability to use someone's location to deliver valuable and relevant travel information could be the "killer app". How often have you found yourself wondering if there was a good nearby restaurant after visiting an attraction? The ability to get this kind of information can easily make a good trip great. Mark I think mobile has huge potential for travel planning. The key is figuring out what consumers want to do with their mobile devices. With GPS becoming increasingly popular, the ability to use someone’s location to deliver valuable and relevant travel information could be the “killer app”. How often have you found yourself wondering if there was a good nearby restaurant after visiting an attraction? The ability to get this kind of information can easily make a good trip great.

Mark

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]]> By: Darren Cronian http://www.travel-rants.com/2008/09/26/trip-planning-sites-are-starting-to-bore-me/#comment-125006 Darren Cronian Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:22:14 +0000 http://www.travel-rants.com/?p=1838#comment-125006 @ Mark What one thing would you like to see improve on trip planning sites in general? I'd like to see something special done with mapping and mobiles. I am using my mobile more and more now to surf the internet on the move and it frustrates me when I can't use sites that use up tons of bandwith. @ Mark

What one thing would you like to see improve on trip planning sites in general? I’d like to see something special done with mapping and mobiles. I am using my mobile more and more now to surf the internet on the move and it frustrates me when I can’t use sites that use up tons of bandwith.

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]]> By: Mark Evans http://www.travel-rants.com/2008/09/26/trip-planning-sites-are-starting-to-bore-me/#comment-123964 Mark Evans Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:52:50 +0000 http://www.travel-rants.com/?p=1838#comment-123964 No doubt you will see the travel planning market consolidate over time. I should point out that PlanetEye lets you plan trips to destinations around the world. Mark No doubt you will see the travel planning market consolidate over time. I should point out that PlanetEye lets you plan trips to destinations around the world.

Mark

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]]> By: Darren Cronian http://www.travel-rants.com/2008/09/26/trip-planning-sites-are-starting-to-bore-me/#comment-123926 Darren Cronian Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:32:41 +0000 http://www.travel-rants.com/?p=1838#comment-123926 @ Mark / Stuart Thanks for your comments. It's good to get a discussion going on these issues. Mark, I am not sure I agree that having hundreds of trip planning sites, with the majority being based on US locations is the best thing for the industry. When you look for a trip planning website then you assume (well I do) that it's going to cover trips all over the world, not just in one country. Like I said above though, maybe I am expecting something that cannot be a business model and what it is is that we are lacking European based trip planning sites. @ Mark / Stuart

Thanks for your comments. It’s good to get a discussion going on these issues. Mark, I am not sure I agree that having hundreds of trip planning sites, with the majority being based on US locations is the best thing for the industry.

When you look for a trip planning website then you assume (well I do) that it’s going to cover trips all over the world, not just in one country. Like I said above though, maybe I am expecting something that cannot be a business model and what it is is that we are lacking European based trip planning sites.

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]]> By: Stuart http://www.travel-rants.com/2008/09/26/trip-planning-sites-are-starting-to-bore-me/#comment-123855 Stuart Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:36:06 +0000 http://www.travel-rants.com/?p=1838#comment-123855 Interesting discussion. One option is to ignore all these new travel/trip-planning sites and concentrate on the ones that have been around for years, delivering useful, expert-written content without the UGC fluff. Sure the sites may lack some of the whizz-bang features you see on the newer sites, but that doesn't make the content any less useful. Outside US examples include: For Brazil: BrazilMax (http://www.brazilmax.com/) For Turkey: Turkeytravelplanner (http://www.turkeytravelplanner.com/) For SE Asia: Travelfish (http://www.travelfish.org) - my site. Interesting discussion. One option is to ignore all these new travel/trip-planning sites and concentrate on the ones that have been around for years, delivering useful, expert-written content without the UGC fluff. Sure the sites may lack some of the whizz-bang features you see on the newer sites, but that doesn’t make the content any less useful.

Outside US examples include:
For Brazil: BrazilMax (http://www.brazilmax.com/)
For Turkey: Turkeytravelplanner (http://www.turkeytravelplanner.com/)
For SE Asia: Travelfish (http://www.travelfish.org) – my site.

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