Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Internet in the service of tourists

Annual conference of tourism professionals PhoCusWright familiarizes participants with the latest in online travel planning. In 2010 it also introduced several new products that may be helpful to tourists. 

Gogobot - a Facebook for travelers. Here you can get or give advice on any of the attractive places in the world, to communicate with like-minded travel plans. Of course, all questions can be asked in the Facebook. However Gogobot direct all inquiries on specific channels, and assures users that they will receive advice only from people, a passion for travel. 

Site TrustYou not only collects feedback from users about hotels across the internet, but also analyzes them, and exposes important to potential guests as a kind of quality rating. Enquiries can be made not only by hotel name, but in a more free-form - for example, the cheapest hotels in New York. " 
Using the assertion that air travel can be painful, the site Hipmunk finds and sorts them by an oppressive degree: the number of stops along the way, the length of the route costs. In addition, the site removes from sight Users flights, which are the most uncomfortable. So that the tourists do not need to get useless information. UsingMiles helps navigate the accumulated bonus miles and bonus points from hotel chains. The site shows all the possibilities to spend the prize miles and points the most profitable. Major hotel chains have long have introduced a rewards program for loyal customers. Site Stash Hotel Rewards assembled a database of boutique hotels, as well as just small hotels offering discounts for regular guests. To begin to accumulate prize points, enough to register on the website and when booking the hotel to inform your identification code. At this stage, the site only works with the United States of America

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for the hipmunk.com shoutout! Please feel free to send along any & all feedback - we love the stuff.

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