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Wednesday, October 18th, 2006So I was bored, and I decided to watch TV even though Sundays aren’t “TV nights” for me. I didn’t know what to watch, so I started to watch a little of the [not so] Amazing Race. This particular episode they were in India, and I thought to myself, “Self, you don’t know [...]
TripTie - the Best way to plan a trip
Saturday, October 14th, 2006Thank you, Web 2.0, for giving the online travel community a valuable site. While I’ve been exploring the usefulness of all of the other new, hip, online booking sites (flyspy, farecast, & farecompare), I ran accross an absolute gem. That gem is TripTie.com. TripTie is an online community created to allow travelers [...]
Online Booking Revolution 3- Farecompare
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006In my first two installments, I covered how Flyspy and Farecast are changing the online airfare booking scene. In Part 3, I’m exploring the benefits of using Farecompare.com
Farecompare allows users to view graphs of historical airfares between destinations They have a helpful “advanced graph” allowing you to see the historical data over a 7 [...]
Online Booking Revolution 2- Farecast flight prediction
Friday, October 6th, 2006In Part 2 of my mini series “Online Booking Revolution,” (Part 1 - Flyspy) I’m going to cover Farecast.com So what is Farecast? Farecast, put simply, is a site finds the cheapest flights, and predicts what the fares will be in the future based on historical data.
If you enter a departure date within the [...]
Online Booking Revolution - Flyspy
Monday, October 2nd, 2006Expect some changes with the traditional online travel booking sites like Travelocity, Orbitz, and Expedia, because of the pressures they feel from some new, young competitors. The way online travel booking happens now already seems archaich compared to the technology available.
So I’m going to make a short series reviewing the new, young competitors [hopefully] [...]
Travel Agent or Online Booking
Monday, September 11th, 2006The question of whether to book flights, hotels, and car rentals with a travel agent or online is one that has been plaguing competent computer users for the last several years now. The question has been asked many times, and the answers that you get in response usually consist of a personal bias of [...]
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