Entries Tagged as 'News'

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

Train Travel Up in UK to Protect Environment

People in the UK are getting more conscious about our dwindling environment which is getting exploited every second. Travelers have started to prefer trains over planes as there is a propaganda regarding planes emitting more carbon di oxide resulting in Global warming. Train companies like Virgin and Eurostar have been actively campaigning against air travel [...]

Friday, July 13th, 2007

World’s Best Awards 2007

Travel+Leisure has recognized different travel functions for the past 11 years by pronouncing the World’s Best Awards. Travelers who use different amenities vote on the service, quality and other pinning features every year. Based on the number of votes obtained, T+L award the best hotels, airliners, cities, islands, cruises etc. World’s Best Awards 2007 presented [...]

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

China to Become 3rd Biggest Travel Destination

China seems to gaining ground and attracting visitors all over the world. In the latest trends available, a United Nations World Tourism Organization official has stated that China is all set to displace United States from the third position in the biggest travel destination list. Last year, China accounted for 5.8 percent of the global [...]

Friday, June 1st, 2007

Opera Widget Contest to Woo Travelers

Opera, one of the top web browsers today has upped the ante by inviting developers to create widgets that would be particularly useful for travelers. This is the latest move by Opera who are pitted against the giants like Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer. We are looking for the best new widgets that will [...]

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Yahoo! Travel is Personalized Now

Remember when I echoed Srmana Mitra’s views on non personalization of Yahoo! travel being one of the biggest drawbacks for a star travel website. It looks like the stakeholders in Yahoo! Travel read reviews and learn from them quickly. The website was heavy on content and low on personalization before but Yahoo has upped the [...]