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TripAdvisor’s Meta Search Opportunity
On February 27th, TripAdvisor took the wraps off of its new air Meta Search engine. It includes industry-first features such as a built-in fees estimator that...
Boxing vs MMA: Which Sport Are Fight Fans Turning To?
This past Saturday night, CBS broadcast its 3rd live mixed martial arts primetime event. The show, which featured Internet sensation "Kimbo Slice" losing...
Group Travel Planning Websites: A Leader Emerging?
A number of websites designed to help consumers plan, book, and manage group trips have cropped up in the past couple of years. These include group booking tools...
Analysis of Kayak.com and SideStep.com Merger
Overview: On December 21st it was announced that the two largest Meta Search Engines in the travel industry, Kayak.com and SideStep.com, will be merging. The larger...
Meta Search Pushes Into Cruises
The News: In an apparent coincidence, the two biggest Meta Search sites entered the cruise category at nearly the same time, when in January both Kayak and Sidestep...
UFC: 6th Most Popular Sport in U.S.?
If website visitation is any indication, there is a new sport around that is capturing the hearts of U.S. consumers. The “UFC“, or Ultimate Fighting...
Consumers Creating Their Own Content in Travel
Travel is the largest category of eCommerce there is, and consumers are taking it into their own hands… and voices. Consumer-Generated-Content already influences...
Are Travelers Finding Needles in 'Haystack'?
Near the end of December 2006, Lonely Planet launched ‘Haystack’, an online booking engine featuring exclusive author-approved accomodations. . Unlike...
Travelistic.com: A specialized video-sharing site
At the end of October, Travelistic.com launched as a new travel community site featuring user generated videos, media sharing, travel blogging, and social networking. With...
Travel: The emergence of Meta Search
Online travel is big: Seventy million consumers researched travel on the Internet in July 2006 alone. While this activity remains dominated by Online Travel Agencies...
