Roundup
Kayak is now powering flight results on WAYN (where are you know?). WAYN has some good mo and could be considered the U.K. leader in the crowed social travel space. Run a search from the WAYN "flights" tab off the home page to check it out. Appears that there was a fair amount of custom work done by the WAYN team - filters live about the results and look and feel clearly not Kayak. Read more about the Kayak & WAYN partnership at Internet Travel News.
Wall Street Journal and Henry Harteveldt call-out TripHub as one of the best group travel sites. Check out the WSJ video. Here's what some leading analysts had to say about the group travel space:
"It's no wonder entrepreneurs are interested [in group travel]. Spending on group leisure travel -- including air, car and hotel, among other expenses, but excluding meals -- will total $51.3 billion in the U.S. in 2008." - Lorraine Sileo, an analyst at PhoCusWright
"The industry is waking up to the opportunity that smaller groups represent" - Henry Harteveldt, vice president and principal analyst for travel research at Forrester
Expodition - travel guides you can download and store on your iPod. The site allows you to download free guides to popular places, attractions and events (such as theme parks, exhibitions, concerts, etc). Check out this recently added guide of Disney's Animal Kingdom.
eMarketer came out with an article recently titled Online Travel Path May Get Bumpy. Although "eMarketer estimates that in the US market, online consumer travel sales were $79 billion last year and will grow at a 17% annual rate to reach $146 billion in 2010", they believe growth has not only slowed, but that "In this dynamic environment, current industry players must stay alert or risk being blindsided by new competitors that fall under their radar screens." Jeffrey Grau, Senior Analyst then goes on to mention "recent offerings from Farecast and FareCompare help consumers determine when the best time is to book airline tickets" - perhaps indicating these companies have the potential to blindside the establishment.
Disclosure: I'm an advisor to TripHub and work at Farecast.
Wall Street Journal and Henry Harteveldt call-out TripHub as one of the best group travel sites. Check out the WSJ video. Here's what some leading analysts had to say about the group travel space:
"It's no wonder entrepreneurs are interested [in group travel]. Spending on group leisure travel -- including air, car and hotel, among other expenses, but excluding meals -- will total $51.3 billion in the U.S. in 2008." - Lorraine Sileo, an analyst at PhoCusWright
"The industry is waking up to the opportunity that smaller groups represent" - Henry Harteveldt, vice president and principal analyst for travel research at Forrester
Expodition - travel guides you can download and store on your iPod. The site allows you to download free guides to popular places, attractions and events (such as theme parks, exhibitions, concerts, etc). Check out this recently added guide of Disney's Animal Kingdom.
eMarketer came out with an article recently titled Online Travel Path May Get Bumpy. Although "eMarketer estimates that in the US market, online consumer travel sales were $79 billion last year and will grow at a 17% annual rate to reach $146 billion in 2010", they believe growth has not only slowed, but that "In this dynamic environment, current industry players must stay alert or risk being blindsided by new competitors that fall under their radar screens." Jeffrey Grau, Senior Analyst then goes on to mention "recent offerings from Farecast and FareCompare help consumers determine when the best time is to book airline tickets" - perhaps indicating these companies have the potential to blindside the establishment.
Disclosure: I'm an advisor to TripHub and work at Farecast.
posted by Mike Fridgen at 4:58 PM
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