Business travelers certainly have a different motivation than the typical leisure traveler, and a corporate travel planner may or may not be involved in the search process. First, they must be inspired to take a trip, and begin the research phase.
Yahoo travel properties and content are a bit of a crazy quilt right now, with video, FareChase metasearch, its main travel property, Trip Planner (which, as I mentioned, is especially valuable) and Answers.
Yahoo is taking is community-travel site Trip Planner out of beta. Trip Planner Released From Beta The site has reached a kind of content critical mass and Yahoo has added some cool features in this general release:Trip Journals (blogging; photos...
Yahoo Trip Planner Released From Beta Yahoo is taking is community-travel site Trip Planner out of beta. The site has reached a kind of content critical mass and Yahoo has added some cool features in this general release:Trip Journals (blogging...
Yahoo is taking is community-travel site Trip Planner out of beta. Answers has received a great deal of attention recently (theres an Answers integration with Travel) but the new Trip Planner is more fully realized as a product.
s Trip Planner beta, but with a broader range of potential applications. s no ability to search a public database or index of mashups that people have created (e.g.my road trip through New England last fall").
s travel metasearch site FareChase or its community travel site Trip Planner produce much more useful results at this point, as do sites like Openlist or TripAdvisor. re really quite weak compared to, for example, Citysearch, Yelp, AOL City Guides...
SideStep's Activity Search would actually be a very strong stand alone offering, but has even more potential when integrated into flight and hotel searches ala Yahoo's Trip Planner Beta. Typing 'Honolulu' into SideStep's Activity Search with my...
Think of Trip Planner as your personal Frommer's Travel Guide. Clicking on the link opens up a new window featuring trips created by the Yahoo community through Trip Planner Beta. With Trip Planner, you have the ability to create your personal trip...
Trip Planner (will it mix this with the new Farechase? Internet Brands, home to Cars Direct, Autos.com and other sites in the real estate and travel space, is bringing aboard Wikitravel and World66, two collaborative Wiki sites that seek to be...
Yahoo's Farechase Adds Features - Yahoo has announced that its Farechase travel service is "generally available," with a number of new features including integration with Yahoo web search, a social search tool called Trip Planner that enables...
Yahoo has announced that its Farechase travel service is "generally available," with a number of new features including integration with Yahoo web search, a social search tool called Trip Planner that enables users to create, tag, share and print...
Google Labs Quietly Releases Transit Trip Travel Planner for Portland, Oregon - Google Transit Trip Planner allows people in Portland, Oregon (only, for the moment) to plan trips with Google Maps using public transportation.MORE”
Yahoo has released API's for their Yahoo Travel Trip Planner service that was released in beta in October. More about Travel Trip Planner in this blog post. Ability to write and post ratings on Yahoo Travel, Games, and Shopping in addition to Yahoo...
Google Labs Quietly Releases Transit Trip Travel Planner for Portland, Oregon - Google Transit Trip Planner allows people in Portland, Oregon (only, for the moment) to plan trips with Google Maps using public transportation.MORE”
Quietly Releases Transit Trip Travel Planner for Portland, Oregon Today's search podcast covers the launch of Yahoo's question answering service, Yahoo Answers; other Q Yahoo's purchase of Del.icio.us; MSN
Via Yahoo's Zawodny: Word of Google Transit Trip Planner. Although I was unable to get it to work I can see from the FAQ that the Trip Planner also provides you with an estimate of how much it would cost to drive instead of using public transit.
The Yahoo Search Blog has news of the Yahoo Trip Travel Planner (beta). Now, if I could find some time to take a trip. Like many thing Yahoo, it's very easy to share travel guides with friends and other Yahoo users.
