Travel Start-Ups

Obviously my posts are less and less frequent. It's time to take a, more extended, break from the blog. Thanks for stopping by and all the best in your travel start-up endeavours.

John Rauser of Farecast created this cool Summer Airfare Strategies Video, which provides tips on when to travel to Europe and domestically this summer. Got me thinking about which other travel web...

Took another look at the Quantcast travel site rankings again and noticed some big gainers and losers since August. Kayak and Farecast have increased their ranking by 30%, while Yapta and SideStep ...

Big announcement last Thursday afternoon, Mike Arrington broke the news, that Kayak has raised $196 million, from multiple sources including Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst Partners and Accel Par...

Will be interesting to see if other OTAs follow Expedia's lead and enter into creative hybrid transaction/media models with top suppliers. (Talking about within the core Expedia.com search paths. O...

These two, new travel start-up companies launched last week by two ex-portal guys, Yen Lee (Yahoo Travel) and Jeff DeKorte (AOL Travel).About Kango"Personalized travel planning for family vacations...

New York Times published a great piece today called "Finding Bargin Rooms at a Glance" that described the value of Farecast's new (in beta) hotel search product and specifically the Hotel Rate Key....

88 Priceline - http://www.quantcast.com/priceline.com133 Hotwire - http://www.quantcast.com/hotwire.com212 SideStep - http://www.quantcast.com/sidestep.com411 Kayak - http://www.quantcast.com/kayak...

Meet the Travel Search Engines was the name of the panel I was on at the Search Engine Strategies Travel conference in Seattle last week. This was their first event focused on travel and the most i...

Farecast's unique airfare predictions and planning tools are now available on MSN Travel. This marks the first major distribution deal for Farecast and an opportunity for the company to generate a...